# Froggo NPR scene WIP **URL:** \ **Category:** Works in Progress\ **Tags:** npr, animation, texturing, geometry-nodes, lighting\ **Created:** [August 22, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/froggo-npr-scene-wip/1651135 "2026-08-22T14:59:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/khamurai/32/1490280_2.png) [@Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/u/Khamurai)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/froggo-npr-scene-wip/1651135/1 "2026-08-22T14:59:58Z")
Working on setting up a scene for a short NPR animation involving my froggos from my previous post: > [@Froggos being froggos | Project breakdown](https://blenderartists.org/t/froggos-being-froggos-project-breakdown/1650258): > > For all the frog lovers (myself included) Made this for last weeks render challenge with the theme “A place to call home” Here is a little breakdown regarding some of the things that I found the most interesting to work on (or I guess find shortcuts for) The back legs Since I had no plans to extend the back legs for the render I decided to just simply extrude, scale and rotate faces with a cube as the base to create the leg … Currently working on the river setup (breakdown below)! ![image](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/e/5/8/e5876e7eddb1d18d005e49225ae8e85356cced7e.png) **The material:** ![image](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/a/a/b/aabbde53843f7a8519cf2e824ac877b1fddbeeb6.png) The “flow” parameter is generated with a geometry nodes setup which is also responsible for slightly deforming the river mesh to give the illusion of a calm flow along the U-coordinate. In the material I use the flow attribute to add some minor ripples with a noise texture and a bump node The volume is there to give a sense of depth. It’s a minor detail but I just really like how it looks ![without_volume](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/0/6/d/06d2a2eaeba38327e0f111ac048009aec4099686.jpeg) ![with_volume](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/e/e/a/eeab197e420eb9c22c700601114ee45b033cf624.jpeg) **The geometry nodes setup:** ![image](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/1/c/2/1c2f98639797f91ca1b34daa73b84681e5fcfd90.png) To make the illusion of a flow that goes from wide → narrow → wide I just unwrapped it from top view, made it cover the whole UV space and adjusted some of the point coordinates to create a bending/pinching “push” in the direction of the flow ---
**Author:** ![NiklasWerth](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/niklaswerth/32/1503139_2.png) [@NiklasWerth](https://blenderartists.org/u/NiklasWerth)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 3:08pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/froggo-npr-scene-wip/1651135/2 "2026-08-22T15:08:22Z")
Beautiful so far! ---
**Author:** ![Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/khamurai/32/1490280_2.png) [@Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/u/Khamurai)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 7:33pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/froggo-npr-scene-wip/1651135/3 "2026-08-22T19:33:58Z")
Almost done with the animatic (very unpolished but shots and actions are mostly blocked out) ---
**Author:** ![Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/khamurai/32/1490280_2.png) [@Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/u/Khamurai)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 8:12pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/froggo-npr-scene-wip/1651135/4 "2026-08-22T20:12:51Z")
Working on a wind effect for the big climax ---
**Author:** ![Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/khamurai/32/1490280_2.png) [@Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/u/Khamurai)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 8:19pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/froggo-npr-scene-wip/1651135/5 "2026-08-22T20:19:35Z")
Just a chonky little guy ![image](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/e/3/5/e3501234d465498f6abfc71414b5f330b6fee517.png) ---
**Author:** ![Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/khamurai/32/1490280_2.png) [@Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/u/Khamurai)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 9:12pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/froggo-npr-scene-wip/1651135/6 "2026-08-22T21:12:59Z")
It’s heckin WIMDY ---
**Author:** ![Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/khamurai/32/1490280_2.png) [@Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/u/Khamurai)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 11:59am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/froggo-npr-scene-wip/1651135/7 "2026-08-23T11:59:34Z")
“Uh oh, I think something bad is about to happen” - _Froggo #1_ ![uhoh_2.2.1](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/4/8/0/480ca82bcff0d88d31b8cfe96dcbd23c1b512ac1.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/khamurai/32/1490280_2.png) [@Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/u/Khamurai)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 1:42pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/froggo-npr-scene-wip/1651135/8 "2026-08-23T13:42:19Z")
The aftermath 🐸 ![aftermath_2.2.2](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/8/4/b/84bcc7d4783b6b2e2855c1cc6a7890a36e620710.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/khamurai/32/1490280_2.png) [@Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/u/Khamurai)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 7:04pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/froggo-npr-scene-wip/1651135/9 "2026-08-23T19:04:09Z")
This thumbnail goes kinda hard ![FROGGENHEIMER_Thumbnail_3.1.1](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/4/7/1/471136854653e6fed2217470a960b41875211d2f.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/khamurai/32/1490280_2.png) [@Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/u/Khamurai)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 11:42am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/froggo-npr-scene-wip/1651135/10 "2026-08-24T11:42:34Z")
“Just a quick weekend project” Yeah okay, if you say so ![image](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/b/e/9/be94742c1fa99ba9c60766263bb174dc622725ee.png) ---
**Author:** ![Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/khamurai/32/1490280_2.png) [@Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/u/Khamurai)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 11:44am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/froggo-npr-scene-wip/1651135/11 "2026-08-24T11:44:52Z")
Some shots from the final edit that I like ![1_2.2.1](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/8/1/9/81909e6c27ccd434b0a32551f74c5715330a039c.jpeg) ![2_2.2.2](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/e/5/5/e55944c7e31863d2945f6cd5cd7a5e47f707474c.jpeg) ![3_2.2.3](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/8/d/2/8d26c5be8d78e762f5cd93b55fba6343352ca315.jpeg) ![4_2.2.5](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/2/6/7/26762b2e597370a16282a8504732056285f194e7.jpeg) ![5_2.2.7](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/a/7/1/a7175dbcd6a4663b1615bf90534e5c177095c98e.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/khamurai/32/1490280_2.png) [@Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/u/Khamurai)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/froggo-npr-scene-wip/1651135/12 "2026-08-24T16:26:22Z")
A few assets made for the scene! _Grass/Shrubbery_ I wanted a pretty stylized geometric look for shrubs so I made 3 simple geometric shapes as my starting point ![image](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/8/1/b/81b486cd657518d516d0f436e0a42130bf5a8fdc.png) I then made a very simple geometry nodes setup that instantiates the shapes on points, and just offsets, scales and rotates the instances randomly ![image](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/7/b/7/7b7180fdd405fb77fafcdffd863f40ae5e7f2774.png) _Tall grass_ ![image](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/2/6/6/2662a3616f959e0a9713e99408ee0dd29f4552d9.png) I wanted to keep the tall grass next to the rocks fairly simple as well, so my solution was to distribute points on a surface, instantiate curve lines on the points and resample them to about 10 or so points. That way I could get some very nice and sharp shapes along the curve by adding tilt along the spline factor before generating the mesh with a curve line as the profile shape The overall shape/tapering was done with a float curve node that looked like this in the end ![image](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/7/b/7/7b7f8e5a734f31290863b94e251d8e5259610bfb.png) _Background grass_ ![image](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/e/7/9/e79b5f6bc8053db2d3acff2a09ad08e8b7000081.png) For the grass in the background I did the same thing but I decreased the amount of tilt to only rotate about 180 degrees from bottom to top The float curve shape is also a bit different ![image](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/2/5/e/25e66605088ecfbb35fa7b3fc5ca97f76793b555.png) ---
**Author:** ![Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/khamurai/32/1490280_2.png) [@Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/u/Khamurai)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 5:20pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/froggo-npr-scene-wip/1651135/13 "2026-08-24T17:20:24Z")
I also made a geometry nodes setup that takes a collection and creates an outline effect around the objects in the collection ![image](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/2/9/5/2950142dd14c7cbfeb92b3e0d2a90c3be8ba058c.png) ![image](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/d/f/1/df1d47893c6c55c855ca0298f4a1b1e1335d7d17.png) ![image](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/4/2/8/4282e598dde1f16a935eb350aac5dd4a7f45e9b8.png) Doing it this way allowed me to easily change settings for multiple things at the same time, and if necessary I could disable all the outlines by disabling one modifier instead of one on each individual object Each collection can also have it’s own material (as with the frogs) ---
**Author:** ![Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/khamurai/32/1490280_2.png) [@Khamurai](https://blenderartists.org/u/Khamurai)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2026, 8:48am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/froggo-npr-scene-wip/1651135/14 "2026-09-04T08:48:06Z")
I don’t even know what’s going on anymore at this point Flat froggo 🐸