Veritas, I have been really impressed with your work with regard to the NPR feature. I was curious if you would ever consider doing a tutorial for the rest of us? I see a lot of potential with the NPR. Especially with the architectural rendering I do. Sometimes the client wants a more sketched look. This in addition to full global illumination of course. Carrara has worked great for me recently as an architectural rendering tool using the global illumination. But my clents have expressed an interest in simpler less costly looks too. For use when they just need a representation of the house, etc, for illustration purposes.

BTW, for any one reading, the new Ambient occlusion works great in many instances for architectural stuff. You dont get the color bleads that full global illumination gives you, but you do get some very nice soft diffuse shadows that work well. In fact with the exception of my most demanding two clients, most of my architectural clients are perfectly happy with the ambient occlusion rendering. After some initial setup to get the lighting correct, it can be a real time saver and it really can look good.

Back on topic. I have tried messing with the NPR but with not much luck. You are getting some clean looking output. Just curious what your settings generally tend to be. BTW if you dont have time to throw together a tutorial I fully understand, barely have time myself to even take the time to comment on your excellent work. But perhaps you could take one of the stock Carrara objects and use your settings and then upload the file so I can get a look at what you are doing differently than me? Maybe a simple object and perhaps at the same time a more faceted object so I can see the difference the settings have on different types of objects?

Thanks very much Veritas,

Donnie