Cycles Shaders - Celshader Trees

NPR in Poser using Cycles and Superfly Engine

(NPR = Non-Photorealistic Rendering)

Yes, I am perverse. I must get Non-Photorealistic Renders using a photorealistic rendering system.

Starting from a few years ago - around 2016-2017 - I researched Cycles NPR solutions among Blender3D users. I manually re-constructed some of these solutions in Poser Material Room, and tested them using Superfly render engine. There were many different approaches and results varied.

One of the shader solutions which worked well for me - with modification by me - is the Sanne celshader. Here I show the 2016 shader tree I devised based on the Sanne celshader for Cycles:

In June 2020, I modified the Cuadropedro Cycles Celshader for use in Poser Pro 11.

This is what it looks like.

Baking Blender Cycles and Exporting to Poser

I generated a geometry in Blender3D, applied a Cycles shader, baked it and exported the geometry for use in Poser Pro 11.

I show a screenshot which summarises my procedure.

Updating older 3D CG assets

A figure from more than a decade ago, the Daz3D Michael 3SR2 figure had a Bishounen morph which made him anime-ish cool. However, the shaders needed updating for Poser Pro 11 rendering, and I figured out a way to add on sceond skin bodysuit over the character textures. I used the Poser Pro11 Material Room Layers feature: one shader tree with the character texture in the Base Layer, and one shader tree with the second skin bodysuit texture in Layer 1.

Getting painterly look from 3D photoreal render

Quite by accident, I discovered that I could use the AI-assisted Smart Smooting function in Clip Studio Paint EX to achieve a painterly look for my 3D photoreal renders.