The Comic Artist’s Tools Suite: Centralized and Intuitive Non-Photorealistic Computer Graphics Renderings

As advancements are made in Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) software and Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) techniques, modern comic artists have reaped the benefits of technology-aided workflows by creating 3D CGI environments for their comic backgrounds. However, while several NPR techniques exist, there remains a high barrier to entry for many non-technical artists when learning how to use these techniques to their full ability. This paper introduces the Comic Artist’s Tools Suite (CATS), a system for the open-source 3D modeling software Blender, which enables artists to procedurally generate and synthesize a selection of curated Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) effects through an accessible and user-friendly interface. Users can quickly create and adjust shaders that customize the style of their 3D environment backgrounds, bypassing the need to craft shaders by hand and speeding up the traditional workflow for rendering pipelines.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2022

Author dc:creator

• Gerr, Joanna

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Grant, Andrew

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
• Copyright retained by author(s)

Licence dc:rights.uri

• https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144885

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/144885