And… it’s a wrap. Or rather, it’s a BEER. As reported here in early August, there’s been a long period of fund-raising to get some serious NPR tooning capabilities into Blender. This goes under the name of BEER, and the fundraiser recently went kerr-ching! and raised enough for 10 weeks of hard development work this summer. Week 10 has just reported. After intensive line-weight research and refinements they have produced the first really ‘worth-having’ Poser-comparable automatic lineart I’ve seen from Blender…
The eye is mean to to be missing, as the model wears an eye-patch.
Good work, chaps, those lines look very usable. The eventual BEER plugin will also aim to be seriously artist-friendly too. If you’d like to contribute to their fund and help raise the cash for the final 10 weeks (of 20 weeks) needed to actually make the finished plugin, you can donate $5 on Gumroad and get fab toon .blend files featuring bunny-girls and kitties under CC-BY. Those with ninja coding skillz can also offer their services to the project.