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Cel shading

Cel shading or toon shading is a type of non-photorealistic rendering designed to make 3D computer graphics appear to be flat and hand-drawn by using shade gradient or tints and shades instead of shading colors. A cel shader is often used to mimic the style of a comic book or a cartoon and/or give the render a characteristic paper-like texture. There are…

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In video games

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Cel shading

Nodes457
Edges456
Triples33
Avg. degree2
Density0.004376
Components1

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Cel shading

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related to In video games · 15
Cel shading → Cel, Cel Damage, Clover Studios, Hideki Kamiya, In, It, Japanese, Jet Set Radio, Producer Atsushi Inaba, Since, The Dreamcast, The Legend, The Wind Waker, Tokyo Game Show, Zelda
related to Wireframe method · 10
Cel shading → After, Alternatively, Back-face, Black, Finally, One, The, The Utah, To, Z-buffering
related to Edge-detection method · 5
Cel shading → Depth, Sobel, Texels, The, World-space

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photorealisminstance ofin contrast to other visual styles0.80text
is often used to lend a more artistic or fantastical element to a video game's environmentinstance ofin contrast to other visual styles0.80text
cel shading in their development for reasons beyond artistic visioninstance offor Ōkami as they became inspired by traditional Japanese art.Game studios might choose a style0.80text
Cel shadingrelated to Edge-detection methodThe0.60section
Cel shadingrelated to Edge-detection methodDepth0.60section
Cel shadingrelated to Edge-detection methodWorld-space0.60section
Cel shadingrelated to Edge-detection methodSobel0.60section
Cel shadingrelated to Edge-detection methodTexels0.60section
Cel shadingrelated to In video gamesThe Dreamcast0.60section
Cel shadingrelated to In video gamesJet Set Radio0.60section
Cel shadingrelated to In video gamesTokyo Game Show0.60section
Cel shadingrelated to In video gamesIt0.60section

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