Render hand painted texture

[KaylxIII]

Hi everyone,

For my short, I'm trying to render at best my hand painted texture, but can't find the right settings in Arnold 5 (maya) for it.

I would like to achieve this kind of render (look the character, most of the background is matte painting)

Here I don't know the renderer. But I would like to have the same result with my textures and also have this "outline" around the characters. I've tried to make this by mixing "emission" and a aiutility plug into it but I wasn't able to get an interesting result.

Do you have any advices or tips for this kind of render in arnold?

Thanks you all

[lee_griggs]

You could try the Surface Luminance shader or wait for the upcoming Toon shader.