UE5 - 2D shader - Giant's Resting Place

Hey! Over the past semester I've become particularly interested in the use of Post-Processing materials to alter the visuals of a scene/game. I’ve always been fond of 2D hand-drawn games. However, I found that styles like these are a bit harder to find in the 3D world and so I decided to do my graduation work on this topic. The goal was to research and make a few shaders with which you can create a variety of 2D looks. Here are the results! If you're interested in exploring this yourself, here is a download link to my paper, for free: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XUQcciwxuDH9txa8_2wz8pUK2dDPjudo/view?usp=sharing Hopefully it can help people who are also interested in styles like these/NPR! It's a lengthy one but that's due to the pictures.
There are some more resources underneath here as well.

Beautiful concept by Oswaldo KATO:
https://twitter.com/ozoztv/status/1488089680172269569

Special thanks to my supervisor Jordy Lakiere, who is working on his game We Who Are About To Die:
https://jordylakiere.net/WeWhoAreAboutToDie-Game

Special thanks to Dermott Burns for helping me out with a part of my shader, he also has a 2D stylized shader:
https://www.artstation.com/dermottburns
Hatching textures by Kamil Hepner, who also has great tutorials for similar styles:
https://ko-fi.com/kamilhepner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ42ylVyDpc&list=WL&index=211
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18U50KPdD2A

Some more resources I've used on this topic if you're interested in more!
- Kris Kaufman - Stylize Renders with Post Process (Unreal Learning Platform) https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/courses/qyl/stylize-renders-with-post-process-materials/G6l/introduction-to-stylized-rendering
- Post Processing cel shading live training https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQw1CL0xYBE
- PrismaticaDev: Advanced cel shading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkFwe7JI8R8&t=243s
- Hristo Enchev - Stylized Rendering in Unreal https://www.therookies.co/entries/7431
- The Cycle - Layered Materials for Environments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl5fe-DAXRI (Used for texturing of the scene)
- Silke van der Smissen - Lost City (Layered Materials) https://www.artstation.com/artwork/VyLgon
- Tommy Tran - Cel shading https://www.raywenderlich.com/146-unreal-engine-4-cel-shading-tutorial
- GuiltyGearXrd - The X factor between 2D and 3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhGjCzxJV3E
- Tom Looman - Custom fog https://www.tomlooman.com/unreal-engine-distance-fog-material/

The people that inspired me to do this:
- Nick Carver: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/689JQr
- Nick Carver: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lR9O6J
- Lotte de Brabanders: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/28bxXa
- The game "GRIS" by Nomada studios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7SUJ1jekc4
- The game "Old Mans Journey" by Broken Rules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ29Ql3xDhY&t=9s
- The game "Dordogne" by UN JE NE SAIS QUOI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhXimnpPa1g
- Laure Dhooge “Charcoal and Rinus van de Velde” https://www.artstation.com/artwork/oOYANw
- Chau Nguyen Thi Hoai “The First Journey” https://www.artstation.com/artwork/gJQOWm

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