Shading Rig + Cel Character Tools: 10 Professional Seat Licenses

What is Shading Rig?

Shading Rig is a new framework for art-directing dynamic 3D toon shading. It lets artists add illustrative details and animate how they respond to lighting changes in real time... we achieve this with a "rig" of shadow editing primitives designed based on fundamental artistic shading principles. These primitives can be animated to achieve highly stylised shading under dynamic lighting.

Lohit Petikam et al.

At Real-Time Live! SIGGRAPH 2021, Lohit Petikam and his team presented a novel idea in the form of a shader rig for cel shaded characters. However, this presentation was mainly theory and lacked technical or practical implementation. A functional implementation has never been made until now. I've both implemented and improved the original ideas presented in the paper, approaching it from an art-direction perspective and coming up with creative solutions to make sure it is production-usable.

Studio or professional users must purchase seat licenses of Shading Rig + Cel Character Tools.

Terms

Any individual, team, company, or other entity bringing in more than $99,000 USD in gross revenue annually, as payment, gratuity, or compensation for work done in Blender, wholly or in part, is a professional user and must purchase seat licensing. You can purchase one seat for $80 USD or 10 seats for $500 USD. For more than 10 seats, please contact me. For 2-9 seats, the price is $80 USD per seat.

I take no liability for any effect these addons may have on your work in Blender, your installation of Blender, or your hardware running Blender. You use these addons at your own discretion and risk.

Unlicensed professional usage (based on the previous conditions) is prohibited.

Definitions

• "Annually" is understood to mean the last 12 months up to the current day when Shading Rig + Cel Character Tools is used.
• "Gross revenue" is understood to mean revenue before any deductions, including but not limited to: payroll, overhead, taxes, or other licensing fees.
• A "seat" is a single user. A user may have multiple machines or computers. A user may not share their seat with another user. In the case that a machine is shared between users, both users must purchase a seat.