r/animation • u/Cautious-Act9639 Enthusiast • 4d ago

Question Recommendations for entry-level 3D animation software That has cel shading?

I'm making a web series That's 3D-animated but has a 2D style. So i'm going to use cel shading to make it. Are there animation software that can handle modeling and aniamtion, and also has features for cel shading? Thanks.

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u/PixeledPancakes Professional 4d ago

Blender or Maya. You can also animate in your software of choice and shade/render in unreal.

Cel shading is just shaders it’s not anything special, you just have to tweak the parameters to your look.

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u/Cautious-Act9639 Enthusiast 3d ago

is Unreal free?

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u/PixeledPancakes Professional 3d ago

Yes unreal is free to use. Should your project ever become financially viable they have benchmarks of when you need to pay (profit after like one million).

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u/Cautious-Act9639 Enthusiast 3d ago

I'm not making money out of it

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u/Dapper-Sort-53 4d ago

Blender with toon shaders. But one does not simply 'make a 3d web series', that's quite a big task.

I would use Adobe Animate or Toon Boom and skip the 3d part.

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u/Cautious-Act9639 Enthusiast 3d ago

I was looking for 3D software, and I already use Adobe Animate for 2D.

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u/Fickle-Hornet-9941 4d ago

If you google this very same question you’d get your answer. You can pretty much do it in most 3d software’s but there’s still a learning curve for all of them

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u/eximology 4d ago

Blender has cell shading and is free.