Arnold Tutorial | 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' Cartoon Material MidTones Section

In this article, Fox Renderfarm, a renowned render farm and cloud rendering service provider in the computer graphics industry, will present an Arnold tutorial for the cartoon material midTones section of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

The Process and Effect of the MidTones Section

The change in the Output Max value on the aiRange node can alter the size of the dots, making them more prominent or closer to the edge.

Create another aiToon node, deselect 'Edge (requires contour filter)', and adjust the Weight value under Base to 1.

Next, create a ramp node and connect it to the Tonemap.

Here, unlike the Highlight_ramp node, the MidTones_ramp node requires 3 points to delineate the Mask area.

Create an aiRange node and connect the MidTones_aiToon node to the Input of the aiRange node.

Create another ramp node, adjust Repeat UV to 150 150, and Rotate UV to 45.

Change the Type of the ramp node to Circular Ramp and set Interpolation to None.

Connect the Out Color R of the aiRange node to the ColorEntryList[1].position of the ramp node.

Create a projection node and connect the OutColor of the ramp node to the Image input.

Change the Proj Type of the projection node to Perspective, set Link to Camera to perspShape, and set Fit Fill to Horizontal.

Connect the OutColor of the projection node to Shader1 of the newly created MixShader.

Create a Reverse node and connect the OutColor of MidTones_aiToon to the Input interface of the reverse node.

Then connect the OutputX of the Reverse node to the Mix interface of the aiMixShader node.

Now assign the aiMixShader to the model and render.

Then simply invert the black and white on this ramp node, and the rendering will be correct.

Adjust the values of Output Min and Max on the aiRange node.

The main part of the tutorial comes to a close. I trust you found it beneficial. For optimizing Arnold rendering, you might want to explore utilizing cloud rendering services like Fox Renderfarm to expedite your project's rendering process.

Source: Thepoly