I need to render line art for background painters to use in the production of a 2D animation. Painting this in 2D would be all but impossible as the art direction changes day to day. The post edges setting in Blender Internal works OK, but the tapered lines of Freestyle look much better. The problem is that Freestyle can’t keep track of Z depth, or what is solid. I don’t know what to try next. I’m not great at compositing, but I’ve put some object on different layers. And, in Cycles I’ve given foreground objects a higher Freestyle order number (material setting). Any other ideas? Please see the examples below.
The above link will take you to the scene file at Dropbox. I’ve cut out about 70 percent of the environment, but I think I need to leave most of the parts that are in camera view. The fact that it’s a complicated scene is part of my problem. Thank you for your time and feedback.
It seems that Freestyle doesn’t like mixing long edges and short edges (and some are long!). I subdivided the longest edges until artifacts were gone.
I had to subdivide the rails 100 times, and could have been better to subdivide more. It would have been easier if you duplicated the rails the same way you duplicated parts of the pillars (and, maybe, other elements). You can merge vertices between duplicates, and it would make the subdivisions simpler.
