Non-Photorealistic Rendering Kit for modo

By DE Editors

Luxology's NPR Kit for modo is a non-photorealistic rendering package that allows expressive, hand-drawn looks and animations to be achieved in 3D renderings, the company says. With this new kit, modo 601 users will be able to access classic art styles when rendering anything from product visualizations to anime and fine art.

"Pushing the boundaries of 3D rendering back to a traditional look delivers an organic feel that resonates with people," said Yazan Malkosh, beta tester and founder of 9b Studios. "The NPR Kit cleverly juxtaposes the 3D medium with a 2D look, so you can show your audience something that is both new and familiar."

With material options for 'toon' shading, stippling, halftones, and edge rendering, the NPR Kit provides representations of architecture, products and characters in modo.

The eight shaders included in the NPR Kit offer a high degree of artistic control. The SketchTone shader uses hand-sketched hatching examples to map an artist's personal drawing style to any 3D surface. High priority strokes appear even where there is little shading while lower priority strokes are filled in later, as the shading grows darker. The NPR Kit also includes pre-built materials, still and animated backgrounds, sample NPR scenes, Sketchmaps, and tutorials.

"The NPR Kit brings familiar 2D styles back to the table," said Bob Bennett, VP of Marketing for Luxology. "The ability to emphasize the edge, color and pattern details of 3D models with a range of traditional looks really extends the creative options for modo designers and artists."

The NPR Kit is available immediately for use with modo 601 on both Mac OS X and Windows operating systems.

For more information, visit Luxology.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.