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how's it going guys so today I'm gonna talk about 10 things that I do on almost

all my renders to just give it a little bit more photorealism

photorealism, like most 3d artists, is photorealism

photorealism

photorealism

photorealism

photorealism

photorealism

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alright I think that's enough melodrama for the day

basically I got bored of photorealism and I decided to dip my toes into non-photorealistic rendering

which, oh boy, was a deep deep rabbit hole

today I wanna show off this workflow around this hidden gem of a software I found called Photosketcher

that I haven't heard many people talk about

despite it being really powerful and giving out such a painterly and artistic result

with such minimal effort, mind you

and it's free

this workflow is so powerful that last year I entered a render challenge

and just based on the style of my render I ended up bagging 7th place

and here's what the judges had to say about it

so we're gonna move on to 7th place

which I will show you from a person called Radium

and they named the image finalfinalfinal.png

thank you very much

I really like this one

I think this is probably one of my favorites

and I don't know if it's just the style or the colors or this, what are they, painterly look?

candidly, I didn't like it at all at first

but it's one of those that the more I look at it, the more I love it

and the closer you look, the more you notice the painterly aspect, the rendering style on, you know, whether it's canvas or brush strokes

it has, I would say that this one has more style to it than any of the other renders

and there's just so many little things, like the art style really unified all of the different elements

like that painterly tonal contrast, it just works so well with this art style

I think it's great, I'm really interested in what your post-processing workflow actually is to get this kind of thing out

there are parts where I'm like, is this paint effect post-processing?

because the texture is larger, closer, but if you look at the back you don't see the texture

so is it like part of the shader?

I think it's part of the texture

and when you have Arundel guessing what your post-processing workflow is like, you know you're struck gold

cool right? now let's learn to make this

step 1, this is probably going to be the hardest step out of all of them

and that is making a scene in Blender, and then rendering it of course

step 2, color grade your render

this is an important step, from me experimenting with this pipeline, I've found that photosketcher tends to mess up the colors of your render

changing the colors later on down the line becomes nearly impossible and gives a messy result

so you want to dial in the colors right now and set the vibe of the scene before putting it through photosketcher

step 3, start up photosketcher

now I know the UI looks like it comes from the 60s, but bear with me here for a second

load up your render with this blue icon

you are presented with this dialog box, now it all comes down to selecting your style and shifting sliders around to get the look you want

it's crazy how easy it is to get a good looking result with such minimal effort

step 4, advanced tips and tricks

while messing around with photosketcher you might come across this custom brushes option

which certain painterly styles come with, not all of them have it but certain do

with this option you can load up a brush alpha mask that can be used to process your image

and this allows you to give your image a more unique style and push in that NPR look even further

I've included a link to a free brush back down below if you want to use it

another option you might come across while messing with photosketcher is the option for manual brushes

with this you can actually go in and paint parts of the image you want the effect to be applied to

but I don't like using this method because this is kind of rudimentary and I prefer doing the same thing

but bringing over the stylized image and the non-stylized images to Photoshop or any photo editing software of your choice

another tip I have is blending between various styles

what I usually do is process the image into multiple styles and then go into Photoshop

and then blend between them to really push that stylized NPR look

if you do end up making something with this method be sure to tag me on Instagram

I would love to see what you guys come up with

and yeah, that's the video, if you enjoyed it consider subscribing

thanks for watching, check out my socials and check out my Patreon

I have some cool stuff up there now and God bless, bye!

Thanks for watching!