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Stylized 3d to 2d backgrounds pipeline

For my comic project, I needed to develop a way to render out stylized images of my assets and assemble them in Photoshop with minimal touch-ups. I was locked to Vray render due to familiarity with it, and it having the best lineart pass effect out of all that I had tried so far. In the process, a couple of additional scripts for render automatization were created as well.
The comic is free to read: https://leavingthecradle.com

Trees in this image were painted in Photoshop later, using Z-depth as mask to paint behind the buildings.

Trees in this image were painted in Photoshop later, using Z-depth as mask to paint behind the buildings.

Foreground trees in this image were painted in Photoshop later.

Foreground trees in this image were painted in Photoshop later.

Render passes

Render passes

The material used for the shadows pass

The material used for the shadows pass