The basics of Freestyle for comics 

Currently working on an update for this tutorial. Should be available in a couple weeks! Lots of changes, and should be way easier to understand. Stay tuned!

As usual, very informative and professionally presented.

*Turns down the samples to 4* Cycles: I am speed.

Thanks x 10 for sharing your research Paulo !!!

Yes! Thank you, I like blender's freestyle a lot! And there aren't many decent tutorials to use it with cycles, more for blender render, and with it now gone in 2.8 we are blessed to have this, where are all the views?! ;'P My ultimate goal is to have a setup able to produce hand drawn like images and this is a great start point. I'm looking forward to next month :)

Thank you very much. The knowledge you are sharing here is priceless. Really informative!

Paul, your tutorials on comic creation in Blender are superb and super duper helpful! I see you've been working on these types of vids since like 2013 or so! Keep it up!

Impressive and inspiring video. Thanks! And this makes me want to look into the comics you make.

This is... SUPERB!!! Thank you so much for making this for us!

Very nice tutorial, i like so much anime style and this freestyle can help me to creat something very good. Thanks

Oooooohhhhh this is just perfect for my Blender self-teaching!! I had this video on my watch list for the longest time now, and your whole channel rocks! I'm going to subscribe now and follow you closely because this is exactly what I'm looking for my animations in the future! Awesome work and thanks a lot for sharing these! =D

Nice presentation of what these features actually do. Thanks!

Hey Paul I am NEW to Blender, Basically a NEWBIE. Love what you are doing and sharing with us, I subscribed Instantly. Looking Forward to learning from you as grow as a Blender user and comic Artist. Will be joining your Patreon soon.

Great video Paul, it's great to have someone wade through the seemingly endless array of options for freestyle and make sense of it all. Now maybe I won't give up and actually get some decent freestyle renders. Combining this with a freestyle svg exporter would be awesome. Cheers!

Mmmmm... Nice! Thank you very much, Paul! Gone to try.

Very nicely explained! Thanks!

wow that was just a nice journey , been meaning to learn more about this , thanks !!

super helpful info! Thanks for being there for me!

Huge thanks to you Paul!!!

4:30 THANK YOU!

Excellent video. Many thanks.

We should have some bake setting of the line detection step for fast tweaking.

thanks again for a great video

Hi Paul, I have done everything you did in the tutorial but for some reason, no lines no objects no shades are showing up in render preview or on rendered image and I have no idea why...Only thing I see is that something is blocking out the viewport grid but its invisible

Thanks.

Good tut

Just amazing dude...

You can check the "View Map Cache" option, save some time when is rendering the same image.-

super cool, thanks a lot !!!

When I use your settings and render it, there is basically nothing. No lines. The color layer is black, the alpha layer too, and the combined just shows the transparent pattern, no lines. I don't get this...

Awesome loved this.

Great Video! If only this could be done in real time using EEVEE... :)

Hey sir is it possible to get the anime look on 3d models? if yes then please guide me or you can make a tutorial on that as well

Very cool!

thanks!!

Hi there. I have a question: I'm currently working on a personal short animation project in Blender Cycles (2.79b) with freestyle. I've noticed that randomly in some frames certain freestyle strokes break (especially the contour line). What's the reason for this and how can it be avoided?

Isn't the Local OR both or one of it, and not either or? BTW: I highly recommend Eevee for Freestyle. It doesn't change the quality but it is much faster.

Hi Paul, I would like to 2d animate over a video using blender 2.8 in real time. Basically, use the frames of the background video as a reference for timing and then 2d/3d animate over it. Finally, render both the animation and the video as one... would really appreciate a video about this.

That still means I will have to model the buildings, scenery, etc in Blender before I use Freestyle...am I right?

10:40 Not using the Compositing workspace that is predefined for you?

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Awesome explanation! I am wondering, is there somehow a possibility to make a style transfer option in Blender?

Thanks for this awesome tutorial! Just a quick question, What do you think is the difference between Blender and C4D in term of create this outline? I am totally new to this and wonder which software i should start to use....

clearly you have a vast level of knowledge and skill... however for a noob like me it is useless if you don't cover how to even get freestyle applied to your render in the first place... every tutorial I try to find just assumes you know how to set up a 'render node' or something and I am lost...

You say that you highly recommend switching from Eevee to Cycles. If we're not using most of the features of a renderer, why not just stay with Eevee? I don't know too much but it seems like you're really just using the outlines of the objects. No? Can you explain please?

I'd like to have a greyscale shading on the renderings. Can that be achieved? What settings need to be reasserted?

Incidentally, I looked at LANPR again yesterday and the new builds have changed considerably. LANPR is no longer a separate render engine, it's part of Grease Pencil and works with EEVEE or Cycles. Have you looked at this yet? Would be interested to hear your views. It's quite buggy at the mo, though.

I searched for 2 hours for a reason why the freestyle outline wasnt loading in the render... I didnt wait long enough to it to render.

How do we render the image transparent like 10:20?

idk sometimes its not working and sometimes it is

EDIT: I was able to render my wireframe now. I didn't know that I have to choose the "wireframe" mode in the viewer before starting the render. I guess there are also other ways to do this but for now this is enough. I'm able to change the thickness and it renders with an alpha so everything is great. :) Hi Paul, your tutorial is really great, so I was trying to replicate your freestyle rendering but I got stuck. After I've been frustrated over my own scene I tried to build upon your 1902_FreestyleTutorial.blend file. And first it looked good I was able to see the outlines of my mesh through your camera in the render. But when I've imported my camera, it's a matchmove camera, it stoped working (means, no outlines in the render. the freestyle pass stopped working). Would be awesome when you have any hints for me. I've been trying around now for several hours but no solution in sight, yet. In case you can find some time to take a look here's the file: drive.google.com/open?id=1by1BtFCDjFaOnON7JFk6LBD7Na9eE2Iu ps: The original mesh in my scene is a big architecture mesh, that's why I've replaced it with a cube. ps2: My scene size seems to be off compared to the size of your environment (sci-fi corridor). So that could be a proble, too, right!? I don't know how to resize a complete scene with matchmove camera in Blender. I don't want to break the matchmove. I think it's obvious, I'm a total beginner here in Blender! ;) Best regards Marc.

I get a blank render, and I followed every step here. Don't know what I'm dog wrong.

*sigh* mine didn't work. I made sure it was on color and alpha but there was nothing there. Just alpha.

Excellent tutorial! I'm wondering if you could help me with something. My edges look like they need anti aliasing because they're very sharp. How could I fix this thing? Thank you!

So I followed all the instructions as far as I can tell, but I go to render result and nothing appears. No lines or anything. Just a checkerboard. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. I watched the video a few times and tried to match each option.

4:30 I don't have anything called "filter" on my View Layer Properties

Has the LANPR real-time engine project for Blender stopped / ended?

very nice, but i think, in my opinion it could be done faster inside clipstudio, maya, or better yet key shot in zbrush, because the intersections lines are missing,i dont know i would have to give it a try before judging

Greetings, I'm still working in 2.79 and I would like to apply this effect. Well, more specifically your comic ink effect on fire. How can I do that?

How did you get your render window into your interface?

If you model your models for freestyle in mind, you only render once.

HEEEEELP I dont know If a touch something else, but when I render mi model nothing appears, and in the viewport shading I cant see my objects :cc I just see png texture all over the place. Help please :cccc

Hi! Wonderful tutorial! I trying to open blender files for the reference on my projects and crashes everytime. On my case, open the blender program and close immediately. I have a Windows 10 AMD Pro A10 9700 with video card R7 on HP EliteDesk PC with Blender 2.79b. I don't know what happen. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

OI, m8, but WHY do I need to switch to cycles ?

it took me 29 mins to do a freestyle render even if its so simple