Kibble is soo excited it found this big stick! Life is looking good 
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I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!
Thank you Bart 
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Haha! Love it! Such a natural thing a dog would do! 
woah how did you get the cartoon effect on the materials ?
right?? The bigger the better 
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This is a bit of a 2 & 3D hybrid - I used procedural textures (mostly musgrave and noise) as my base and then layered a basic toon shader on top of that for the shadows. I did this for the entire scene.
Then I painted over some of the foreground leaves and added some light line art to the wooden planks. The rocks, mid/background and the giant stick (minus the outline) are full 3D renders.
The outline I first did using freestyle but then I wanted to use a hair system on Kibble and thereās a known issue right now with freestyle not working with hair soā¦I ended up doing the outline in Photoshop. 
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Cool, Iāll try that triple-rendering mode you mentioned, seems creativeā¦ about the rocks, they really look anime-style, is there a way to achieve that without cycles (in blender render) ? Are they just meshes with toon material ? Sorry but I donāt understand cycles stillā¦
oh its all Eevee - I didnāt use Cycles at all so no worries there 
and yes, the rocks are a mesh with a toon material.
I just used multiple noise textures that I connected to color ramps and then layered them on top of each other for the base color of the rocks. Then I added a toon shader and mixed that in to darken the shadows.
You can do a lot with noise textures and color ramps
Yeah, I meant ānodesā for ācyclesāā¦ I meanā¦ all that weird stuff with links and connection. Canāt find a decent text tutorial for nodes beginners, they all change everytime as soon as thereās a new version (canāt stand youtube videos neither, I just canāt learn with them), even the default documentation takes too many things for granted, looks like genius stuff, not for meā¦ Eeveeā¦ too eevil for my outdated pc.
thanks anyway and keep it up, amazing work!
Love this work!
Dogs are just the best 
oh Iām sorry to hear that. I donāt know if youād be interested in this but Iām putting together an Introduction to Blender class for schoolism. It will be pre-recorded lessons but you can sign up for the individual critiqued sessions where I will work with you directly and do my best to answer any questions you may have. 
Iām also doing a talk at lightbox expo on creating stylized environments in blender where I talk a little bit about materials. Maybe there is some helpful information there for you? That talk is tomorrow Saturday sept 11th at 10am PST at lightboxexpo.com. I think you can still get tickets - they are 2 USD.
arenāt they??? We are dying to get one but we want a yard firstā¦hopefully next year
I have to learn how to do this kinda thing, for my own - kinda thing.