Cel shading
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Cel shading or toon shading is a type of non-photorealistic rendering designed to make 3D computer graphics appear to be flat and hand-drawn by using shade gradient or tints and shades instead of shad
A 3D model of a spacesuit (left) edited to use a basic cel shader, also known as a toon shader, and border detection (right)
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is a 2002 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. An installment in The Legend of Zelda series, it was released in Japan on Dece
Cel shading
…on the use of cel-shading in video games. Since the early 2000s, many notable video games have made use of this style, such as Cel Damage (2001), The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2002) and Ōkami (2006). Cel shading, in contrast to other visual styles such as photorealism, is often used to lend a more artistic or fantastical…
North American packaging artwork variant, depicting Link and the King of Red Lions
The Wind Waker's cel-shaded art style makes use of real-time lighting and effects like depth-of-field blur, making the game look stylistically similar to a cartoon and setting it apart from other games in the series.
Comparison of the graphics from Wind Waker HD (bottom) with those from the original GameCube version
Shigeru Miyamoto 20150610