Making 3D animation look painterly (it's easier than you think)

Thanks for watching! I added some answers to frequently asked questions in the description :) You can download the tea kettle project file for ✨free✨ on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/painterly-kettle-95182168

Dude popped out of no where and dropped a more well made tutorial than pretty much all other blender/3D tutorial YouTubers 😂 🎉

For blender users: a modified voronoi texture is actually really good at imitating the real brush strokes. So you can connect the position of the texture into the color of the Normal map node (better to lower the strength to less then 0.5). Set the voronoi to smooth and lower the smoothness to around 0.1. Then connect the Mapping node to the vector of the voronoi. There you can see a Location socket. Plug there a Noise texture. To control the strength of it, use Vector math node set to Scale. That’s the basic concept, play with it. You can and different Noise or other textures to Location/Rotation/Scale for even more stylisation. Last thing: group all this big node tree, duplicate it, change its settings connect those two with Mix Color node. Possibilities are infinite!

Dude said "its not as complicated as you think" and it do be more complicated than me think

After seeing your first video on Instagram I started experimenting with this technique. I’m my experiments I’ve found it looks really good if you create 3 slightly different normal maps, with the normal map animated to change between them every 3 frames

Cody, you have such a talent for explaining complex concepts in simple language! Thank you so much for this video and I hope to learn more from you in the future.

I think a good way to keep the colors identical between multiple maps would be to pain in UV coordinates, then use that as a vector input to the raw, unaltered texture maps. That would give you the ability to change the brush strokes, color, object shape, and even metalic or roughness textures to match with the brush strokes

I've been OBSESSED with non photoreal rendering for a while now, and seeing this painterly normal map technique initially just sparks so much inspiration in me. Thank you, this is so cool! Looking forward to learn more about this stuff :D

I fell in love with the idea of 3D animation done to look like 2D, so I am absolutely here for this technique and hope you make many more tutorials along these lines in the future.

Definitely one of those "light bulb" videos. Such a simple and straight-forward way to achieve that look, regardless of the tools used. Awesome video!

This is explained SO well. There's a lot here I haven't learned yet, but you did a great job at explaining the things needed to learn to get to the final result, so now I have a list of stuff to learn in order to practice your painted method. Thanks so much for making this, looking forward to more of your work!

i work with drawing commissions, one thing ou can do to match the normals with de albedo/base color is do the normals first, then you save one copy of the normals in .png file(with the original normal saved ), grab the normal that you will transform in base color and put saturation to 0, you will have a perfect copy of your normal but pintable and in grayscale, than you use the option "clipping mask" in your grayscaled normal and paint of with no fear to smud or destroy everything ps: english is not my primary language, so please, forgive the syntax errors

I saw this as a Short a while back and am so glad to find it as a full video! This effect is cool as hell and also so smart and straightforward!

THIS IS SO MIND BLOWINGLY SMART! I can't believe I've never thought of this! It's such a cool use of normal maps and should work in any game engine, not just 3D rendering software!

Didn't know it was this easy to achieve a look like this. We first tried to look for similar ways after watching "ARCANE" and now knowing we can ... it's awesome! Thanks Cody

this has been living rent free in my head, since it was posted and now, I keep imagining ways to implement this into a game engine anyways, thanks for your lovely tutorial! 💜

This video tutorial is exactly what I've been looking for almost half a year, and it's also sooo well explained. Thanks a lot.

This is the type of content I was looking for when I started 3D animation last year. Thank you so much for this. I hope you keep posting.

Dude! I saw this on Instagram and was blown away. I wanted to say - what a great first video! Your story telling is easy to follow, your shots are super pleasant and the information is great. Can't wait for more content!

I loved that they used a style like this in the TMNT movie. It really gave it a cool feeling and just looks great