Sketch and Toon gives you a wide range of options for creating drawings. Using edges and outlines, it makes it easy to create technical illustrations. Presets allow for quick selection of different lines styles and it allows you to replicate looks and setting across multiple scenes.
Lines can be given variation for a more hand drawn look, and thickness of lines, angles, and opacity can be used to imitate calligraphy or other natural media. Sketch and Toon lines can match the contour of any object from any view. They can be previewed in CINEMA 4D, or exported to Adobe Illustrator in vector format.
Available to you are a series of shaders like the Cel Shader that can be used to make your own manga or anime look. There is a Hatch Shader that will create sketch that looks hand-drawn. There is an Art Shader to let you emulate the look of traditional artists, and a Spot Shader that mimics the look of low resolution print images. And, as always, Sketch and Toon can be combined with any of the other CINEMA 4D features.
As with the first four modules, I found these modules as easy to use as CINEMA 4D itself. Everything is straightforward in its design and layout. With all of the available training and the quick start guide and MAXON's Cineversity training subscription it was real easy to get up to speed.
You can download a demo, or purchase the core or individual modules. There are even bundles available for a better deal. If you want to get into 3D then now is the time to check out CINEMA 4D Release 11. I highly recommend this product.
Article comments
1 - Marinus Lutz
Thanks for the lucid review. You were more positive on Thinking Particles than others have been. [The consensus seems to be that it's so complex and badly documented that nobody uses it.]
About C4D's renderer speed. How does it currently compare to Mental Ray?
If you append that info to your review, please let me know [or maybe you could just write me? :D].
Thanks for everything!
Marinus
Skeleton walks into a bar, orders a beer and a mop.