From the course: Motion Graphic Design: Composition

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Giving 3D a cartoon effect with cel shaders

Giving 3D a cartoon effect with cel shaders

From the course: Motion Graphic Design: Composition

Giving 3D a cartoon effect with cel shaders

- [Narrator] I've got 05013D04C4D open here, and if you want to follow along you can open that file too if you have access to the exercise files. And here we see we have a starting point for one of the scenes in my 3D section for the advert. I want to talk a little bit about how this was put together and also about how I created the kind of cartoon style shading for this animation, which makes it match in really well with the 2D elements that I've made in After Effects. So you'll see here I've built a basic shape for the bus and I've also created some clouds. I just want to show you quickly how those were made. You'll see here I just got a series of spheres and here are the spheres here. And then I've added to these, a metaball object. So basically, the metaball object contains a null, which has a series of spheres in it. And when that's switched on, it creates this kind of smooth wrap around the spheres and there's various different ways of controlling that if we go to the attributes…

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