Editing Non-photorealistic rendering (section)

==Notable films and games==
This section lists some seminal uses of NPR techniques in films, games and software. See [[cel-shaded animation]] for a list of uses of toon-shading in games and movies.

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! colspan="3" | Short films
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| ''[[Technological Threat]]'' || 1988 || Early use of toon shading together with [[Tex Avery]]-style cartoon characters
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| ''Gas Planet'' || 1992 || Pencil-sketching 3D rendering by Eric Darnell
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| ''Fishing'' || 2000 || Watercolor-style 3D rendering David Gainey
|-
| ''RoadHead''<br />''Snack and Drink'' || 1998<br />1999 || Short films created with [[Rotoshop]] by [[Bob Sabiston]]
|-
| ''[[Ryan (film)|Ryan]]'' || 2004 || Nonlinear projection and other distortions of 3D geometry
|-
| ''[[The Girl Who Cried Flowers]]'' || 2008 || Watercolor-style rendering by Auryn
|-
! colspan="3" | Feature films
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| ''[[What Dreams May Come (film)|What Dreams May Come]]'' || 1998 || Painterly rendering in the "painted world" sequence
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| ''[[Tarzan (1999 film)|Tarzan]]'' || 1999 || First use of Disney's "Deep Canvas" system
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| ''[[Waking Life]]'' || 2001 || First use of rotoshop in a feature film
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| ''[[A Scanner Darkly (film)|A Scanner Darkly]]'' || 2006 || "a 15-month animation process"
|-
|[[Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse]]
|2018
|Creators wanted to create the feeling that the viewer  "walked inside a comic book"<ref>{{Cite web |last=Weintraub |first=Steven |date=2017-12-11 |title=Here's How Peter Parker Factors into Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse |url=https://collider.com/peter-parker-spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-details/ |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=Collider |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse]]''
|2023
|Incorporated NPR techniques to develop several different animation styles, including impressionistic watercolor style.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Croll |first=Ben |date=2022-06-13 |title=‘Spider-Verse’: Enigmatic New Villain The Spot Unveiled With First Look Image at Annecy |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/news/spider-verse-the-spot-sony-annecy-1235292383/ |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref> 
|-
! colspan="3" | Video games
|-
| ''[[Jet Set Radio]]'' || 2000 || Early use of toon-shading in video games
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| ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker]]'' || 2002 || One of the most well-known cel-shaded games
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| ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'' || 2008 || Uses a number of NPR techniques in the game, including a sketch-like shading method
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| ''[[XIII (video game)|XIII]]'' || 2003 || A game made as "comic"-like as possible
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| ''[[Ōkami]]'' || 2006 || A game whose visuals emulate the style of [[Ink wash painting|sumi-e]] (Japanese ink wash painting)
|-
| ''[[Guilty Gear Xrd]]''
|2014
|Fighting game using cel-shaded 3D characters with limited animation to imitate the look of 2D sprites
|-
| ''[[Return of the Obra Dinn]]'' || 2018 || A 3D game rendered in a unique monochrome, pointillist style
|-
| ''[[Manifold Garden]]'' || 2019 || A 3D puzzle game using [[impossible geometry]], notable for its novel edge-shading techniques.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1145/3388767.3407385 |chapter=That's a wrap: Manifold Garden rendering retrospective |title=Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Talks |year=2020 |last1=Brussee |first1=Arthur |last2=Saraev |first2=Andrew |last3=Chyr |first3=William |pages=1–2 |isbn=978-1-4503-7971-7 |s2cid=221178781 }}</ref>
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! colspan="3" |Software for non-photorealistic rendering
|-
|''[[SketchUp]]''
|2000
|Sketch-like modelling ''software'' with toon rendering
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|''[[E-on Vue|Vue Xstream]]''
|2015
|3D environment creation ''software'' featuring an NPR renderer with various traditional art style emulating presets
|}