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FIGURE 12.3 Assign Outline.
FIGURE 12.4 Background color.
This tells Maya to add an outline around areas of a given color, in order to simulate the lines that might be drawn by a 2D vector artist. Finally, as seen in Figure 12.4, we choose a background color and have Maya place it on a plane that is perpendicular to the default camera perspective: endering Main Menu → Toon → Set R Camera Background Color The resulting render is shown in Figure 12.5. Maya has taken care of the task of deciding where each of the two colors will be placed on the cow, as well as where to draw the black outlines.
MAKING A GRAFFITI-COVERED WALL WITH PAINT EFFECTS The paint metaphor is used widely in Maya, and the Artisan engine inside Maya supports a number of tools, in particular, the
FIGURE 12.5 Toon cow render.