nope, i tried the ink lens shader but didnt end up using it.
but seeing that you thought there was a backlight missing, i have to work on my shading skills some more

owei wrote:...ah, I see. Yes, in that case you should decrease texture detail and shading detail to get a more cartoony look. Have you tried out the toon shaders..?

cheers,
oliver

yeah, the black outline is actually a toon shader with a phong in the base color input.

the black line around the silhouette is on purpose. i guess it should be more distorted and the texture of guile should be more cartoonish to get the point across...
we'll see if i get the time to improve those points.

thanks for your input

[media]https://vimeo.com/6101511[/media] Here is the result of a personal project I did for the learning experience. Thanks to DDS for letting me use his Guile model! Critique is welcome. Rigging and animation was done in XSI, modeling in 3dsmax (by DDS). The black trail wasn't rendered at all, inst...

awesome! i've been waiting for this so long, especially the duat quaternion compound..