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Toon Shaded Donald Duck

My goal with this project was to create a piece that resembled hand-drawn originals but using 3D.

With that in mind, I decided to 3D model Walt Disney's Donald Duck.

I created the base mesh in M...

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Shaun's Role:

3D Modeling, Sculpting, Lighting, Look Development

Software:

Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter, Arnold

Year Created:

2019

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SUMMARY

My goal with this project was to create a piece that resembled hand-drawn originals but using 3D.

With that in mind, I decided to 3D model Walt Disney's Donald Duck.

I created the base mesh in Maya and posed in ZBrush. Using Substance Painter, I created simple albedo maps that I would also later use as edge detection maps with the Arnold Toon shader.

The project took roughly 3 to 4 days from beginning to end.

Be sure to take a look at the project images and video for more details!

Final image straight out of Maya using the aiToon shader and Arnold.

All quads. 3D modeling with Maya and ZBrush.

To achieve some internal lines such as around the eyes, I plugged the same color map as a mask under edge detection.

Applying a cell node to the silhouette provided variance in line thickness.

The background is using an aiStandardSurface shader and is one-hundred percent procedural. See the images below regarding node network details.

A fantastic quality with using the aiToon shader is one can layer nodes and have excellent control with where the layers go. In this instance, I used aiUtility node with a multiply to overlay a wireframe, but so much more can be accomplished.

An ambient occlusion node was added to highlight the ability to quickly bring a traditional 2D toon look and bring it closer to appear 3D.

The node network for Donald was pretty simple as shown above.

This node was a bit more complex but it simply layers the ground and background using a ramp.

Donald Duck in 3D and Toon Shaded

Toon Shaded Donald Duck

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