Draw with light.Shape with code.Keep the soul in every pixel.

A collection of notes on shaders, stylized rendering, game development, and the tools behind it - documenting experiments, techniques, mistakes, and the projects they eventually turn into.

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FIG. 01 // TOON SHADER STUDY

ShadingModel.hlsl

01.Tutorials/02.Devlog/03.Projects

FIG. 01 // CHARACTER SKETCH

✎ cel ramp study v3

FIG. 02 // SCENE STUDY

ShadingModel.hlslPASS

half3 ToonRamp (half NdotL) {
    half d = NdotL * 0.5 + 0.5;
    half ramp = step(_Threshold, d);
    return lerp(_Shadow, _Lit, ramp);
}

Interactive Material Grader

Rim Light1.25

Specular0.80

Shadow Contrast1.20

Interactive Cel Viewport

CH. 01TUTORIALS

Guides & Breakdowns

✎ step-by-step guides ↘All tutorials→

Featured StudyRendering

7 min read

Fixing Anime Face Perspective in Unity

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A practical experiment in reducing perspective drift on a stylized anime face with a small camera-relative vertex correction.

STUDY NOTE 026 MIN READ

Reiware Shader Graph: Building Shaders in the Browser

A look at Reiware Shader Graph - a browser-based node editor for building, previewing, and experimenting with shaders directly inside interactive tutorials.

ShadersRead note →

CH. 03PROJECTS