NPR for architectural visualization with Blender 2.50 and FreeStyle

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npr-render-architecture-blender-250-freestyle-04Allan Brito has published a mini-tutorial on how to use FreeStyle rendering in the current 2.50 builds.

Allan writes:

The integration between Blender 3D and FreeStyle render, which is capable of create great NPR images is one of the features develop as part of the SoC 2008. It is still in development by Maxime Curione, but now the development is aimed to use FreeStyle with Blender 2.50. This a useful feature for architectural visualization artists, especially if you don’t want to make presentations using realistic renders. With FreeStyle we can create animations and renderings with a cartoon or sketch style.

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    • Ianvdl

      Hmmm, interesting.

    • ＪＯＭ

      I really want the FreeStyle in Blender2.5
      It will help my anime characters look better (like real manga style)

    • iamblender

      someone can tell me where can I find the movie Plumiferos?

    • Limvot

      Hay, JOM, you don’t need freestyle for that, though it would be useful. Blender Art Magazine featured a guy a couple of episodes a go that made a really nice looking anime style maid using the edge render settings. I think that it’s on blender artists too, just search for Maid-san.

    • Cloud_GL

      I’ve been following this for a long time and I’m happy to see it coming with the next release finally! Thanks!

    • mercury

      interesante articulo…
      lo mas interesante es que se pueden usar mas de un modulo del freestyle para lograr unos resultados interesantes ;)
      gracias por la nota…

    • soyd

      estoy de acuerdo con mercury

    • Alex Blank

      Can’t wait for true Freestyle integration with Blender!

      @iamblender:Not that this is really on topic with either NPR or Blender 2.5: Plumiferos has yet to be released…

    • Oscar Franco

      Blender team should add freestyle in the oficial blender release since it’s a really useful effect library, I downloaded one of the latests builds and it didn’t have freestyle integration, I don’t know if it will be on the beta 2.5. I hope it will :)

    • yoff

      Nice that freestyle gets exposure. I think, however, that the article shows off the possibilities quite poorly. The styles chosen are unusable for visualization (and most things other than abstractish art). Freestyle has such a great potential, I hope people do not open this article, glance at the pictures and think “Oh, that is what freestyle does…maybe if I could do cool lineart or something….”. It can. And the article should make that clear.

    • Claws

      Stupid question: How do I get back to the ‘original’ screen after I’ve rendered a scene and the renderwindow takes over? First time I’ve tried 2.50 – I’m a 2.4x guy :)

    • http://www.blendercross.org madturtle

      The freestyle stuff looks great. I like the flexibility of blender and other opensource apps.

    • MasterJack

      Stop this “all-in-one device suitable for every purpose” thing and finish 2.5!!
      Otherwise I fear that Blender will be an unfinished apllication like before!!

    • http://dithi.es/ DiThi

      @MasterJack, developers have a schedule and a real world scenario for everyday testing (durian). Projects such as this one is done by separate devs which don’t make the overall progress slower at all. Also, since when Blender has been “unfinished”?

    • rgdfhdfhdryerztetz

      What does the word NPR mean?

    • yoff

      rgdfhdfhdryerztetz, it means Non-Photo-Realistic. It covers the case where you are not striving forr ealism but rather something else, like artistic expression or (as is usually the case in visualization) clarity of forms. The link does not showcase this too well, I fear..