Watercolor Shader?

Howdy,

Last night I took out my old copy of Lilo Stitch for inspiration. The overall design and use of color in that film is just great in my opinion. Then I remembered that in that film ALL the backgrounds were hand painted in watercolor.(they went old school).

And it really had a pleasing effect. So I wondered if anyone had done that in realtime. So I “googled”: water color shader, and found these two .pdf’s

  1. http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1130000/1124732/p11-luft.pdf?key1=1124732&key2=7333570021&coll=GUIDE&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618

and

  1. http://www.cs.nthu.edu.tw/~chunfa/pcm2004.pdf

Does anyone know of any Unity shaders that can simulate watercolor?

Good question.

This is of no help at all, but I just went through that movie a few weeks ago and made dozens of screengrabs for reference. It’s one of the few good traditional movies they’ve done in the past decade or so. I love the set design and they way they weather and color the buildings. Good stuff.