Creating a highlight/shadow on a 2D graphic

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September 17, 2021
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Hi!

Does anyone have a tutorial or suggestion on how to create a highlight / shadow on 2D graphic? Any example on a simple shape like a circle would be so helpful!

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Correct answer Luca Giarrizzo

Hello @Substance5EE2,

To produce cartoon shading on a shape, you can connect a combination of Normal and Light node or our new RT Shadows node into a Quantize Grayscale node, as shown in this example.

I hope this is helpful!

Best regards.

S

Substance5EE2

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Here is an example for the shadow

davescm

Community Expert

Can you give a little more information on what you are trying to achieve. Do you want to just add a shadow and highlight to a 2D image, which would be more effectively done in Photoshop, or do you want to add height information based on a 2D image so that when lit and rendered in 3D it catches highlights and creates shadows.

Dave

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gtapperdesignAuthor

Participating Frequently

Sure! I have a bunch of amourphous blob shapes I need to create hard edges shadows/highlights for like this.

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gtapperdesignAuthor

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Hello @Substance5EE2,

To produce cartoon shading on a shape, you can connect a combination of Normal and Light node or our new RT Shadows node into a Quantize Grayscale node, as shown in this example.

I hope this is helpful!

Best regards.

Exactly what I needed!! Thank you Luca!

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