Cinema 4D Tutorial - How to Apply Cartoon Line Art Outlines to 3D Objects in Cinema 4D Lite Video Lecture | Create stunning 3D Graphics with Cinema 4D - 3D & Animation

everybody it's EJ from I design calm and
today we're gonna talk about how to
create outlines on your objects like you
would with sketching tuned only we're
gonna be doing this with the tools
inside of cinema 4d Lite only so anyone
with Creative Cloud if you're an After
Effects user you can try to make sketchy
outlines around your objects using this
technique so let's get started here so
just a little preview here's a model
from my new sketching toon model pack
version 3 and if I just do an
interactive render region here and
you'll notice that we actually see
through the background here the viewport
and that's due to just right clicking
this little triangle and going to alpha
mode and we can actually see our
timeline or our grid back here and this
is what the kind of faked outline is
gonna look like so we have the boxing
glove from my sketching to model 3 pack
that you can pick up in the new pack
that's out right now but let's start
let's figure out how we can get these
outlines in cinema 4d Lite so let's go
into our start here and again we're
gonna do a interactive render region and
going to alpha mode here and you'll see
we just have our kind of cell shaded
boxing glove and for those of you who
don't know how that I'm gonna post a
link to a tutorial how to get this nice
shell cell shading inside a cinema 4d
Lite using the colorizer
and the Lumos shader so be sure to check
out that tutorial to get this nice
sketch cell shaded shading on your 3d
objects here so our 3d object now looks
like a fun little 2d boxing glove here
but we want to make outlines on this guy
so how are we going to do that so we're
gonna have to since there's really no
way to create outlines other
then going into our render settings here
and enabling cell renderer and and
choosing outline here but the thing is
is that the and you can't even see it
the outline is so so thin and there's no
way to adjust the thickness of that
outline so that's the downside of the
cell renderer so get out of here cell
renderer we're not gonna use you were
gonna do another new thing and it's not
perfect but it will get you pretty much
99% of the way there of having a really
nice outline so you have your model we
got our model here we got our little
boxing glove right and even it's an even
it's even animated it's gonna punch you
right in the kisser right in the kisser
we're gonna duplicate it so that's the
first step and what I'm gonna do is just
blow out all the textures on that
duplicate so this is gonna be the glove
outline and basically what we're gonna
do now is create a texture that kind of
displaces the geometry of this boxing
glove and that's going to be the basis
that we're going to apply our outline to
so I'm gonna double click and our
material editor here and let's just turn
everything off and we're going to turn
on displacement and let's apply this
texture
we're just rename this outline and we're
gonna apply this texture to our glove
outline you're gonna see that that just
turns everything black you can kind of
see that we're having some weird
polygons intersecting stuff going on
because we made a duplicate right on top
of where our actual other glove is so
we're gonna go in an able our
displacement we need to push out those
those polygons out so they're bigger
than the original glove there so we're
going to go ahead and in our texture
we're just going to load in a color
you're gonna see that even in my I'm
gonna redo that again you can see in our
viewport here that if I just choose
color already pushes out and makes our
preview material bigger and that's the
same thing that happens in our view
port here you can see that that's kind
of thickened everything up slightly if I
just toggle back and forth that made our
second glove outline object thicker
because it's actually pushing those
polygons out with this displacement here
and the height is five we can adjust
that if we want to and that thickens the
on our second outlined object here our
second copied object so that's basically
all what's happening now but now what we
need to do is make it so we have our
second object here we have the black
beginnings of what our outline will look
like we just need to make it so we only
see the edge of that second object so
how are we going to do that well we're
gonna load up the transparency chat
channel here and that'll just make our
second glove outline material total or
object totally disappear and to get some
of it back we're actually gonna utilize
the fernell channel now the Fornell
channel shade stuff based on how it's
facing the camera how a polygon is
facing the camera so all these polygons
that are kind of facing away from the
camera are facing away from the view
will have different color map to it than
what polygons completely facing 100%
parallel to our camera view so let's
load up our for now and we're loading up
in our transparency and you can see
right away what's happening is all the
polygons that are facing or more facing
parallel to our camera view is going to
get that black texture and since we
loaded it in transparency anything
that's white will be see-through so
we're kind of seeing through underneath
where our original boxing-glove is and
that's actually a kind of cool effect by
itself and again we have this
displacement displacing everything out
and you kind of see if i zoom in here a
little bit of a fuzzy edge going on here
so we need actually going tor for now we
can turn off our internal reflection and
refractions and stuff don't need that
but let's go into our for now here and
the first thing we need to do is kinda
invert
this so now we're seeing more of a solid
edge out here and we're also getting
some of this gradient so we have this
you know this actually looks kinda cool
right so if this is like the style you
want to go for we have a really nice
outline and again that's controlled the
thickness is controlled by the
displacement of our actual objects so if
that's too thick we just move that
intensity down if we want it even
thicker outline we got that but then you
can see that we need to adjust our
gradient here because we're kind of
seeing through to the background here so
that's a little bit too thick there so
what we're gonna do so we don't have
that kind of gradated see-through stuff
here make this more of a solid outline
is by going to our for now go into our
gradient and just saying we don't want
any interpolation whatsoever and you can
see that now we can just kind of move
and adjust this white part here but
you'll see that there's all kinds of
funky stuff happening here and again
this could be a style of look that you
want right
and this looks totally fine the one
thing you're gonna notice is that we
have shadows being cast from our
duplicate object here so what we
actually need to do is so this isn't
casting shadows on the object underneath
it is go ahead and go to our c4d tags
and on our outlined object our
duplicated object we're gonna go to a
compositing tag and add it to that glove
outline that duplicate and turn off cast
shadows and that'll get rid of that
extra line edge there so you can see a
toggle on and off so we don't want that
duplicate to cast shadows or anything at
all we don't actually don't want it to
receive shadows either all right so that
fixes that issue so the second thing is
again we have some parts thicker than
others
and we we can change that if we what if
we don't want this if we don't want this
style we want more of this kind of
outline stuff what we need to do is
change this render so right now it's
it's placing the black part of our for
now gradient on the front in the back
equally of our object here
but if we do back trends we now only
have the backside of our polygon getting
that thick outline there so we can
actually go through and see if but
black-owned back only is not going to
work so I think it's the back trans yep
and that's gonna be the one so we
actually don't need any other not in
here at all we just need to make it all
black gradients in here and the black
trans is going to be the one the back
trans is going to be the one that we're
gonna want here and this gives you a
really nice outline here so again
there's gonna be it's not gonna be
perfect but this is basically gonna get
you a really nice outline here so this
is gonna be dependent all about what
your model is so let's actually try
something a little different maybe a
little bit more complicated so let's go
to this alarm clock here and what we're
gonna do is I have this group of objects
all you know sweep object extrudes and
parametric's and we're just going to
duplicate this whole thing and we're
gonna do the same thing where we're
gonna this will be the alarm clock
outlines
and let's see how this look so we're
gonna just we can I don't think we need
to take off any of these of materials
but let's just check so let's get our
material in here again let's place it on
the actual null and let's hide this
second group here so I think we are
gonna have to go ahead and just maybe
apply this to copy tag to children and
that's not going to work very well so
actually let's just delete all the
textures on all the objects underneath
and then apply this
copy the tag to children and there we go
and we actually deleted like dummy I
deleted all the foam tags so let's add
more funk Tigers back to get our
smoothing there
don't delete the Phong tags guys that's
not a good thing so let's get a material
here and again let's load up our
transparency our displacement and again
you can see some funkiness going on
let's go first just before I forget
let's make sure we're not going to cast
any shadow so get that compositing tag
there uncheck cast shadows alright let's
go and just load up a color in the
displacement and now we can actually see
through here let's go in order
transparency and load up that for now
and again we'll need to invert that
let's just do that back trans and get
rid of that white not there and we just
applied that black outline to a little
or alarm-clock guy here that is also in
the sketch in toon pack that just came
out so again we can adjust the size of
the thickness of that by adjusting the
height we can also change the color by
going to our luminance enabling that and
then we can change the color of our
outline just like so and again it's not
going to be perfect we still have this
kind of weird thing here but that's
actually a cool stylistic thing not so
much what's going on right here so again
this isn't perfect and especially right
here too this is not perfect so maybe
with this we don't want to maybe have
those intersecting we're still getting
that issue so not perfect but hey see 40
lights free and there's you know if this
is the only way you have to get outlines
hey that's that's gonna you can't really
argue with that
let's just see
messing around with fists if we get like
a more gradual kinda thing so again you
can play around with fee for now here
and get different kind of styles again
go into the interpolation maybe changing
it to zero and you get a different kind
of style of outline so maybe that helps
fix some of this stuff maybe not making
the transparency let's move this so
again you can get kind of creative with
how the style of the sketch outline kind
of looks and basically just have fun
with it alright so that is how you can
kind of fake sketch in tune outlines on
your objects using the for now using
displacement and cinema 4d Lite so if
you guys have any questions be sure to
post it in the comments and again this
is for C for D lights so if you have
After Effects Creative Cloud you have
cinema 4d lights so you can do this and
again all these models were I use that
are in the new sketch into model pack
that I just released so go to I design
comm and check out the store and it's up
there and again as always just thank you
so got a sink thank you guys so much for
checking out this tutorial and I'll see
you in the next one bye guys