Dedicated to Non-Photorealistic and Expressive Rendering
Overview
What is BEER?
A super flexible renderer to handle non-photoreal and stylized rendering.
Contributions
Everyone can contribute in many ways. Donate your money, time, blendfile and code.
We have raised: over US$ 21100 of the required US$ 20000
105% funded!
The extra will be used for maintenance
& coding more NPR features.
Blender Extended Expressive Renderer (BEER) is a free and open source realtime non-photoreal (NPR) rendering engine. The main feature of BEER is the ability to extend the rendering capability from the ease of adding custom shaders to a customizable shader graph. Since NPR is a journey of endless styles which never settle, we need a render engine which will fulfill all the stylized needs.
Fundraising campaign artworks:
Fundraising Campaign
BEER Development Fundraising Campaign #6
This is the 5th batch of Blendfiles for the BEER development fundraising campaign. It contains 3 epic blendfiles from the community.
- Cyber Girl by AVersionOfReality.com. This character took almost a year to develop, very complex and hitting the limits of Eevee. A lot to learn from this file.
- International Space Station Pixel Art by Filipe Dilly. This animated pixel art is done via post process. The scene is optimize to make rendering look very pixely. Be sure to check the animated gif on Gumroad.
- Gigantic by LowellCamp. A city on top of a robot and your mind can go wild from there.
BEER Development Fundraising Campaign #5
This is the 5th batch of Blendfiles for the BEER development fundraising campaign. It contains 3 epic blendfiles from the community.
- Emi by @GloriaAnimator based on the character design by Emily Chow Yun Xin. You will need to install the included BlenderMalt add-on, and run it in Blender 2.83.5 or later. Relink the beer.glsl shader if the character only display yellow color. This is the first character utilizing the back-end of BEER fully.
- Cave scene by @kendrickszb a master of complex composition and interesting colors.
- Wildcat by @Retronous This scene is animated. Plus a pinkish version of the scene also included.
BEER Development Fundraising Campaign #4
This is the 4th batch of Blendfiles for the BEER development fundraising campaign. It contains 3 epic blendfiles from the community. 
- Callisto by @rukikuri. This model is gorgeous. Lots to learn from it.
- Mr. Fish SCP-527 by @youtherthyf, used with permission from @scp_djkaktus. This render is intentionally made to look old and has a retro vibe.
- Mini Choco by @Nahuel_Belich. One word: YUMMY!
BEER Development Fundraising Campaign #3
This is the 3rd batch of Blendfiles for the BEER development fundraising campaign. It contains 3 epic blendfiles from the community.
What you’ll get:
- Kin-chan by 10zou. She has a basic rig. Kawaii!
- 2.5D hero by Jebedaia. Very smooth normals!
- Alchemy by BEER Malt developer, Miguel Pozo. Special Windows build of Blender with outline. This is a tech preview of what you will be able to do with BEER soon. Note: Please run the RUN_ME.bat file.
BEER Development Fundraising Campaign #2
This is the 2nd batch of blendfiles for the BEER Development Fundraising Campaign. It contains 3 blendfiles from the community.
What you’ll get:
- Collin’s Cat by @TerwerLive
- End of Destiny by @Alex_Mehler
- Bancho by @molegato
BEER Development Fundraising Campaign #1
This is the first batch of blendfiles for the BEER Development Fundraising Campaign. It contains 3 blendfiles from the community.
What you’ll get:
- Bottle chan by JuskAseK
- Koko Magicians House by @eva_premudraya
- An epic sunset scene by @im_galad
More to come
More epic and exciting blendfile soon.
BEER UI Development Updates
Development Highlights
BEER layers, materials, panel, Mask support, Solo and mute layers, Input layers, Blend modes. Update #1
Project Milestones | BEER Design Document
Development updates
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Milestone #7 | Milestone #8 | Milestone #9
Malt Development Updates
Highlight for Week #22:
Transparent material and shadow. Pipeline, lighting, and shader API refactor. | Read the full development details
Development updates
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Official Malt Development Sprint Has Ended
Further development here: https://patreon.com/pragma37
We have seen boundless potentials in non-photoreal 3DCG from the community from the BNPR Shows. With BEER, everyone will be able to create stylized artwork much faster. BEER also frees the creative power to expand NPR shaders never seen anywhere before. To reach this goal, we need the help from the stylized artwork enthusiasts and developers around the globe. This is the start of the chain reaction journey. Let’s work together to build a renderer that fit NPR’s ever evolving needs!
As photorealistic rendering has evolved and render engines have grown in complexity, stylized rendering have become more and more an afterthought that barely fits in their (photoreal render engines) workflows.
So I’m confident there’s enough potential for a community funded NPR focused renderer.
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