How to make quick 2d animation with blender? Npr

I don't know much about blender at all but I want to make 3d animations but wanting it to look 2d. 3d animations that try to look 2d are clearly 3d and I know it can be done with npr and freestyle but I don't know where to start. How do I make a 2d toon animations on blender? Something that can load in blender quickly. I'm assumeing that there's a way to make animation quickly with blender by using some trick of turning the 3d to 2d.


The reason I'm asking is cause rendering takes way to long and wondering if a sort of "2d" render would help. Even if itshe just line art if it renders faster. Takes a minute to render a image of toon style Suzanne.


I don't have special sharers or nodes. I don't even know how to use nodes yet, but is it even possible to make quick animations? Sorry for my hard question I been looking for the answer for weeks now.

  • Jonathan Lampel replied

    Hey Jason, can we see an example of what you've rendered currently? It's definitely possible to render quick NPR animations, but how you do that depends on your scene. 

  • demonslayer112 replied

    How would I show a example?(sorry I'm still new here)

  • Jonathan Lampel replied

    Hey Jason, there sure is! It's called Freestyle, and it draws lines over top of a Cycles or Blender Internal render. Here's it in action over a BI material set to shadeless:

    You can turn it on in the render properties, and tweak it in the render layer properties: