<aside> 💡 The Anime Studio is inspired by Anime shows, film, concept art and posters. They will either use a gradient color ramp and/or flat colour to achieve these looks. The Advanced Materials will need a bit more explanation (see below) but are very powerful once you understand their purpose.

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<aside> 💡 The Color Node + Contour Nodes will be the most used to change looks.

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Anime Shaders

Anime Skin Light/Dark (Advanced) Shader

Skin Presets

• The skin colors are all presets prebuilt for you. The light skin + dark skin shaders each have 8 shades (Input 0-7). Every skin type has been matched to actual anime skins from tv/films.

  

  Color skin setup.

• Cycle through the input numbers (0-7) to see the skin types.

  C4D

  C4D

  Houdini

  Houdini

Update Colors

• Use the Color Correct nodes to update Base and Shadow colors. They can be skewed to be lighter/darker with Levels or Gamma, more/less saturation or even a completely different hue.

Add Darker Shadow

• Select Color Layer and turn on Layer 3 to add an additional tone Darker Shadow.

  C4D

  C4D

  Houdini

  Houdini

Anime Universal (Advanced) Shader

• The Anime Universal shader is set to base color WHITE. You can make this base any color.
• The Shadow color is using Hue/Saturation/Levels to modify the base color. Meaning you can skew it to be warmer shadow, cooler shadow, a different color, or brighter/darker.