Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Non-free NPR renderers

I'm upgrading to kubuntu hoary from a gusty backup due to trying to get my phone to pair with my computer (don't ask, I have no idea what happened), which will take a while. I want to do an update once a week, at least, so this week I'm doing a brief roundup of non-free NPR renderers. These are just ones I've found on my travels around the internet, its by no means an exhaustive list. I don't have any interest in them really, other than trying to mimic the techniques.

First off, we have Illustrate! its for 3d studio. find it here It looks pretty. Apparently Aardman's Chicken-Run used it for previz, and Production IG use it for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone complex. Nice!

Jot is't exactly non-free, but you have to email them to get it. The web link is broken though, otherwise I'd have a bit of a play and some screenshots.

The reyes plugins have been around for a while, and they make a toon one, as well as a bunch of other plugins for 3ds max, for clothing etc.... http://www.reyes-infografica.com/

http://www.penguin3d.com/

not sure it does NPR, but probably not.
http://www.yafray.org/

Piranesi is a really nice watercolour renderer, it looks like stuff an architect would do.
http://www.informatix.co.uk/piranesi/gallery.shtml

This is a huge page of NPR links. Its pretty old though, and some of the links are dead :( Quite a bit of it seems to be algorhythms and such. http://www.red3d.com/cwr/npr/

oooh, http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1274871&idx=SERIES963&type=proceeding&coll=Portal&dl=ACM&part=series&WantType=Proceedings&title=NPAR&CFID=27847381&CFTOKEN=89643736
"Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Non-photorealistic animation and rendering", which includes such things as Team Fortress!

glsl shaders are in gameblender, not sure how to get them in a blender animation though.
http://www.bonzaisoftware.com/npr.html

according to this article, Poser has some NPR stuff in it. hurrah!
http://images.google.co.nz/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bellaonline.us/~digitalart/efrontier/Poser7/SketchOfMan.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art52951.asp&h=296&w=439&sz=19&hl=en&start=581&sig2=MOJukFwDLYB8XpJWFzGx-Q&um=1&tbnid=O1nkqWkiudcOBM:&tbnh=86&tbnw=127&ei=9sAqSKyLPKCKpwSGwLSzBA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnon%2Bphotorealistic%2Brender%26start%3D576%26ndsp%3D18%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dcom.ubuntu:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

finaltoon looks freakin sweet! check out the gallery, this is a page with some examples of line types.
http://cebas.com/products/feature.php?FID=306&PID=37&UD=10-7888-31-788

http://www.gdi.com.cn/product_detail.asp?BigClassName=SketchUp6.0(G)%D4%F6%D6%B5%B0%E6

http://algorithmicarts.com/gallery/ Made for maya, examples of the EVA renderer and the Expressive Effects plugins for Maya.

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