WHAT IS PASTELINI?

Pastelini recreates your Blender scenes into pastel paintings and drawings. You just choose your model, put Pastelini on it, and within a few clicks and a few minutes of playing with colors and lights you have a nice, traditional-looking artwork, which can even be easily animated. No UV’s, fully procedural, and fast.

Working very well in Blender 3.0!

I made it mainly for landscape and environment artists, who love CG but need to catch their ideas quickly. Pastel technique is a great tool for this and Pastelini is like its digital mirror, which allows the artwork to get alive – to be animated by simple sliders I prepared for you.

Of course, you can also use it for any type of art and concepts – portraits and character design, vehicles, or whatever you can imagine.

SHADER DEMONSTRATION

To show you some examples, I created these three pastel scenes, which are included in the pack.

HOW TO USE IT?

Make your composition and models
Set Blender to Eevee and Standard View Transform
Get a color scheme (find a picture with a mood you want or paint/shoot one)
Import Pastelini and make as many copies as you need to get different colors of objects
Choose colors by intuition or color pick them from your pre-made color scheme

Create a set of RED, GREEN, and BLUE lights – each of them will paint another color on your object – the default is:

RED for the main light source
GREEN for main shadows
BLUE for additional light color
NO LIGHT for a neutral background

You can always change these and have NO LIGHT for the darkest values, it really just what color you assign to which light type. You have 12 colors to work within Pastelini Shader, but if you are node-friendly, you can expand the number to whatever you need and enhance the shader.

Work in real-time render view and check if everything is correct
Hit render! or

Press the spacebar and check the fluid animation
Edit the animation direction, speed, and step frame
Hit render animation!