I think the answer to my question is probably "you can only do this in Vue Infinite", but I'm hoping to create a material in Vue that will create the black and white, Frank Miller style shading that appeared in the film "Renaissance".

I have Vue 6 Pro Studio, and I've a sneaking suspicion that it will not let me create the material, but can use the material if created by Infinite. Anybody know if a material like this can be bought or downloaded?

got any examples ?

I think you probably can, Pro Studio has pretty full access to function controls.
Have you looked at tutorials on Toon styling in general?

I think I remember something about not having access to certain nodes in the material editor in Pro Studio which preventing it from creating toon style shaders.

YouTube trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh7s32XRScQ

The Cel shading tutorial at Geekatplay will give you the answer on that
http://geekatplay.com/tutorials/celshading/ 
If it doesn't work then I'm sure you can get some made up without too much trouble. I have Complete and am intrigued now, so I may go ahead and play with it myself.

I think the 'Angle of Incidence' node is one of the missing nodes in Pro Studio. Certainly, there are buttons in the tutorial's editor window that I don't have.

Having said that, the cell shading bit adjusting the diffusion, ambience and contrast seems to work ok, although it's not the stark contrast I wanted.

You're right, Mark, V6 ProStudio doesn't have this node.

I have 7 Complete and when looking at the Geekatplay tutorial on cel shaders was able to do the whole thing. I still have my 6 Prostudio so tried to load the materials there and no luck, I also tried saving the functions and 6 Pro is unable to load those. If you ever move to 7 let me know, I have a zip file of a bunch of colors in narrow and wide outline forms. Sorry I wasn't able to share it with you now.

I was wondering if the freebie version might be able to create usable materials, but your experience suggests that there is already a version compatibility issue even on the paid for versions.

I'm a bit hesitant about upgrading, Vue's track record on stability being what it is.

I've posted what I've managed so far.

Looks very good, Mark.