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a COMPLETE guide to shading
By pikat
- Type
- Video
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- 13 min
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2025
About this lesson
Complete guide to digital shading: where shadows go, fancier cel shading, anatomy of a shadow, edges and color.
Chapters
- 0:00Intro
- 0:15Where do shadows go?
- 1:56SECRET TECHNIQUE 1
- 4:00Making cel shading fancier
- 4:53Anatomy of a shadow
- 6:13Edges
- 7:46SECRET TECHNIQUE 2
- 8:21Color Theory
- 9:38Checking values
- 10:22SECRET TECHNIQUE 3
- 10:58The relationship between value and saturation
- 11:50Overlay layer
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