Need... Help?

Cel shading isnt a rendering technique in 3d, its a material technique, like bump mapping. And yes those programs have the means to let you alter the materials of objects to make it look 'cartoonish'.

http://www.3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials...g_tut_main.asp
this will explain everything you want to know about cel shading. You can try maya free edition is free but not for commercial.

It's a bastard to install, Maya. Takes years! And it slows the computer down. An duses up too much space.

Depending on which pc you use Lenny it could be worse. One of yours has about the same computational power as this solar-powered casio calculator I have right here =O.

It could be because ours is 6 years old, P3 1000mhz processor, with only 512mb of RAM.

W00t first post on XP...

Ahem. I'm looking for maybe an ikkle tutorial that would let me make an outline for around... 1.5 pixels wide, and have a fairly good shading option, no matter how complicated, that would let me make an object(personnnn) and have a few shades of color to indicate shading. Not gradient like in LoZ:TP, but yes, more like LoZ:WW. The thing that made WW look really cartoonish was the build of the characters, what with the abnormally large heads, no feet and big round eyes. That's all a matter of style, it's the shading technique I want, not the kiddie graphics, which I happened to like, to anyone who is looking for offense(get lost).

Blender3D is free and highly complex yet simple to use.

It supports... everything? Cel-shading (is a material), bump map, ray tracing, built-in game engine and more.

www.blender3d.org