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This document provides instructions for rendering 2D line drawings from 3D models in Blender. It discusses setting the background and edges, adjusting object colors, removing shading, and switching to orthographic view. It also includes tips on edge thickness and feathering. Additional references are provided for CAD tools, toon shading tutorials, freestyle rendering, and related scripts.

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Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/2D, Toon, & CAD Rendering 1

Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/2D, Toon, & CAD


Rendering
2D, Toon, & CAD Rendering
Rendering a 2D Black & White Line Drawing. (ver.2.49, defaults)
1) Background. Under the menu selections, "Shading" (F5) → "World buttons" → "World" tab. Turn the
background (default is blue) color to white. The color selection box above the "HoR" slider.
2) Edges. Under the menu selections, "Scene" (F10)→ "Render buttons" → "Output" tab. Click the "Edge" button to
turn on the edge lines. Adjust the "Edge Settings" if wish to change the edge intensity (sensitivity) & edge color.
Under the "Format" tab of the same menu you can also choose to change the file format (default is Jpeg) & render
size.
3) Object Color. Under the menu selections, "Shading" (F5)→ "Material buttons" → "Links and Pipeline" tab.
Select the materials to be rendered. Once a material is selected, move to the "Material" tab and change the color
(default is gray) to white as well. It is the top box of 3, next to the 'Col' button. Each material instance will need to be
changed.
4) Shading. Eh, who needs it? Menu selections, "Shading" (F5)→ "Material buttons" → "Material" tab. Click on the
"Shadeles" [sic] button to remove shading. Each material instance will need to be changed here as well.
5) Camera. Select the Camera in "Object Mode". Under the menu selection, "Editing" (F9) → "Camera" tab. Click
on the "Orthographic" button, to flatten the image.
6) That's it folks. Hit F12 to render, and F3 to save your render.
*Note: Camera in Orthographic Mode:: Leaving the camera in Perspective mode will result in mesh lines being
barely visible, almost white washed. Where as Orthographic mode will allow the mesh lines to become much more
visible. And combining Orthographic mode with SubSurf, can help to create well defined curved surfaces. Just
remember to change the camera lens scale, and Crease edges (Shift+E) where needed.
Edge Line Thickness
Overall edge line thickness can be changed by adjusting the render resolution. As such, the greater the render
resolution, the thinner the edge lines will appear. Under the menu selections, "Scene" (F10)→ "Render buttons" →
"Format" tab. Change the "SizeX" & "SizeY" entries (Max = 10,000x10,000). For complicated images at high
resolution, you may wish to change the number of tiles rendered. Found under the "Render" tab, "Xparts:" &
"Yparts" (Default = 8x8).
Edge Line Feathering
Edge line weight can be adjusted by changing the planar distance, in the 3rd dimension, of objects relative to each
other. Or in other words, how close an edge is to a common plane or an angle to 180 degrees. Resulting in edge lines
appearing lighter (gray) or even totally disappearing.
Some gradient can also be created in lines by sloping an edge towards a common plane. Causing lines to fade from
black to white depending upon the relative angle.
What's Needed: A way of defining edges with line type, line weight, & color using blender. Any suggestions?
Putting CAD in the Blender
Python Scripts Catalog: CAD Tools [1]
3D as a CAD tool: Using the ProCAD script (Article) [2]
How to add 3d dimension lines to Blender? (Article) [3]
Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/2D, Toon, & CAD Rendering 2

2D External Tutorials
Rendering architectural line drawings with Blender (Great site for Architectural ref.) [4]
Toon Shading - A Blender Tutorial (video) [5]
Blender Line Drawings [6]
Blender Compositing Tutorial for 2D Animation (video) [7]
Tutorial 1 :Sort of sketch style rendering with nodes [8]
Tutorial 2: Pencil sketch rendering with nodes [9]
2D Scripts & 3rd Party Programs
VRM: Vector Rendering Method [10]
PantoGraph [11]
Freestyle [12]
Experimental
Freestyle is being integrated into Google Summer of Code (GSoC). You can find experimental test builds... i.e. Not
Finished Yet... at GraphicAll.Org [13], search for "GSoC Freestyle" .
Freestyle integration into Blender: Blog [14]
Freestyle integration into Blender: FAQ [15]

References
[1] http:/ / wiki. blender. org/ index. php/ Extensions:Py/ Scripts/ Catalog#CAD_Tools
[2] http:/ / www. blender3darchitect. com/ 2009/ 07/ blender-3d-as-a-cad-tool-using-the-procad-script/ '''Blender
[3] http:/ / www. blender3darchitect. com/ 2008/ 11/ how-to-add-3d-dimension-lines-to-blender/
[4] http:/ / www. opendimension. org/ blender_en/ line_drawings. php
[5] http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=nhaVsNqbS8M
[6] http:/ / www. royalhigh. edin. sch. uk/ departments/ departments/ CDT/ ahgc_0607_blender_line_drawings. html
[7] http:/ / www. youtube. com/ watch?v=83nNEFMWr2Y
[8] http:/ / matthieu3d. free. fr/ TutoVira1/ tuten. html
[9] http:/ / matthieu3d. free. fr/ TutoVira2/ tut2en. html
[10] http:/ / vrm. ao2. it/
[11] http:/ / severnclaystudio. wordpress. com/ bluebeard/
[12] http:/ / freestyle. sourceforge. net/ index. php
[13] http:/ / graphicall. org/ builds/ index. php
[14] http:/ / freestyleintegration. wordpress. com/
[15] http:/ / freestyleintegration. wordpress. com/ frequently-asked-questions-faq/
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Article Sources and Contributors


Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/ 2D, Toon, & CAD Rendering  Source: http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?oldid=1677578  Contributors: Adrignola, Camp

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