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$ 8700 of the required US$ 20000
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 #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
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
More to come
More epic and exciting blendfile soon.
Development Updates
Week #1: Malt development began! Defining the whole project design and architecture, almost everything is subject to change.
Week #2: Object instancing, mesh properties, texture support and more. Huge progress! Read more via the button below.
Week #3: This week we have support for Pipeline Parameters. The initial support for Lighting and a lighting code example.
Further development updates will be here:
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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.
Contribute now
Every little thing you do matters for this development project. Just click the button below to tell us how you want to contribute.