Vintage Printing Shaders Collection

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Vintage Procedural Shaders Collection for Eevee


Fully procedural shaders for Blender Eevee 

  • Stylized shadows with cel-style banding or retro halftone looks
  • Flat colors enhanced with noise and pigment variation
  • Animation-ready, lightweight, and real-time




Halftone:

Creates a dynamic halftone effect with scalable dots, ideal for vintage print looks or bold pop art style.
Perfect for: Stylized posters, retro VFX, comic book aesthetics.
Controls: Point offset and scale, randomness, metallicity, and glossiness.


Pastel Etching:

Perfect for: Artistic renderings, poetic visuals, hand-drawn concept art.
Controls: Noise and line scale, roughness adjustment, clean PBR values.
A soft, textured shading effect combining pastel-like smoothness with etched line detail.


Old Manga:

Perfect for: Comic-style renders, retro-anime vibes, graphic storytelling.
Controls: Dot size and scale, gamma adjustment, PBR-ready parameters.
Captures the iconic halftone dot pattern from classic Japanese manga.


Grid Shading:

A structured grid overlay that evokes vector art and digital blueprint aesthetics.
Controls: Grid scale, input blending (A/B), and basic material values.
Perfect for: Stylized UI, technical illustrations, cyber and glitch visuals.


Dithering:

Simulates tonal gradients using controlled pixel noise for a retro, low-bit aesthetic.

Perfect for: Offset print looks, lo-fi interfaces, arcade-inspired scenes.
Controls: Light/shadow colors, noise scale, metallic, and IOR values.


Cross Etching:

Mimics traditional crosshatching with adjustable line direction and density.
Perfect for: Engraving-style renders, old print simulations, detailed illustrations.
Controls: XYZ rotation and scale, roughness, and IOR.


Great for low-poly scenes, stylized motion graphics, or anything that needs that classic animated look with a modern Eevee workflow.

Quick to tweak, easy to animate, and fun to use. This is an ongoing project—expect regular updates and improvements over time.
The collection is open and editable, so feel free to dive into the node setup, tweak it, remix it, or build your own version.

0.1 made and tested in Blender 4.3.4


$25$15

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Details
Sales 10+
Dev Fund Contributor
Published over 1 year ago
Blender Version 3.5 - 4.5
Render Engine Used Eevee
License Creative Commons