Blender 3D: Characters, Machines, and Scenes for Artists

Chapter 8. Robot - Freestyle Rendering

In this chapter, we'll use Freestyle and the Blender Internal rendering engine to give our robot a stylized, cartoon look. We'll explore a few different rendering and material options and alternative possibilities:

• Preparing the scene
• Marking Freestyle edges
• Creating materials
• Rendering and material options
• Conclusion

Preparing the scene

Before we render our robot, we'll need to set up the scene. First, we'll add a camera:

We'll position the camera for the render we'd like to create. If you're doing NPR renders, sometimes it helps to adjust your focal length down quite a bit:

This can help simulate the exaggerated ...