If you’ve been following animation trends lately, particularly since the release of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, you’ve likely observed a growing number of CG movies and shows adopting a hand-drawn style. However, this aesthetic remains challenging to achieve at a high level and large scale, as most 3D software is designed for photorealistic rendering.

DillonGoo Studios, known for its Goo Engine, a specialized version of Blender with extensive modifications for NPR and anime-style rendering, has announced that it will lend its expertise to the official Blender releases and help guide the development of NPR features in Blender. In fact, it has already been contributing for some time, having introduced Light Linking for Eevee in Blender 4.3. 

The studio is working on the experimental NPR prototype branch, which avid Blender users are likely familiar with, some of which have even been showcased before, like this striking DMC-style VFX by Mingwei “CMZW” Lim:



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