Watch: How to Make Second Life Look Like an Animated Line Drawing

This is a fantastic visual effect for Second Life created by Kitsune Shan, simply through adjusting settings in the Firestorm viewer: Rendering the virtual world into what looks like an animated line drawing. It screams out for being used in machinima and music videos -- or as Sasy Scarborough put it to me, when she sent this video my way, "Turn name tags off, it would be an amazing short film." Yes.

How to create this effect? Watch the video until the very end, where you see the setting levels she used in the UI. Kitsune figured this out through trial and error noodling:

"I was simply playing with shadows settings, pushing them beyond limits. On Firestorm you can enter values manually or simply push arrows up and down and get results beyond sliders limits. Then I noticed I could get some kind of black outline around which made it look like if everything where made out of ink. Then played a bit more with WindLight settings so I could get rid of everything except 'fog' and resulted in that little clip."

If you're reading this and you do decide to create machinima with this effect, send links my way!

Additional thanks to Brooke Barmy for posting this old-ish video.

Comments

[Han Held]

I think this might just be the coolest thing (VW wise) I've seen this week!

[Ryan Schultz]

Very cool effect!

[Pulsar]

Wow, really awesome and good for artists!

[YourThere Sometimes]

Super Kool!
Imagine, If only the 3rd party viewers were allowed free reign to develop new features like this for secondlife?"

[Sasy Scarborough]

This is wonderful and it really does open up the ability to make some very sweet and interesting machinima', music clips etc.
Thank you for sharing further.
These are the kind of things that make Second Life exciting and broaden the imagination bubble :)

Sasy Scarborough

[irihapeti]

likes :)