BEER

Malt is a fully customizable real-time rendering framework for animation & illustration.
It aims at advanced users & technical artists who want more control over their workflow and/or their art style, with special care put into the needs of stylized non photorealistic rendering.

Free and Open Source. MIT License.


NOTE: BEER Campaign is now closed


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. Light BWK, co-founder of BlenderNPR.org

Light BWK, co-founder of BlenderNPR.org

BEER Campaign is now closed. Your purchase will now go to BNPR site, community, & administrative maintenance cost.

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The Official Malt Development Sprint Has Ended
Further development here: https://patreon.com/pragma37

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.

Miguel Pozo, BEER backend developer