the original still looks more charming with its whimsical trailing sparks effects, I don't know how to do any of that yet 😭 #Xenogears

oh i'm really pleased with this one! I got the fake hair highlight working! Things that are just taken for granted when rendering more normal stuff, but with the toons style it needs adding manually

love the core crystal "animation"!

ah might as well how how it looks with the sun rotating sideways too - before and after in the same clip

This is how it looks with the face receiving lighting normally - truly horrifying. Still tons of other improvements required, but it was a nice little step forward

However I've also been trying to put together a toon/cel shader, and I figured out how to lock the sun direction cast on the face vertically, leaving the rest intact (Horizontal rotation of the sun still works as normal, as it should).
The "Before" video is in the next post!

Spent an embarrassingly long time fumbling around on this today, but I got something I'm pretty pleased with: