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Wanna know how I made this toon shader? Read on…

Toon Shader Basics
If you know the basics of a toon shader in Maya, feel free to skip ahead to Building Moom’s Shader.
A simple toon shader in Maya is a surface shader fed by a ramp containing two colors: The fill and the outline. This ramp isn’t [...]

Some folks have asked about the process behind the look of my recent scenes, the Bee Chase and the Stair Fall. I’m starting a series of posts to answer those questions. I’d like to start with the backgrounds, even though (as you’ll see from this post) they were created after the animation was done. I [...]

Here’s a neat little capture stand you can make at home using simple, cheap materials. I based it on the photography light box tutorial at this page. It uses a regular cardboard box, two lamps (one on each side) and some tracing paper to diffuse the light. The original tutorial uses halogen lamps, but desk [...]