Soft shading — Shading with smoothly blended transitions that creates gentle volume.

Coloring & shading

Soft shading

ソフト塗り

Shading with smoothly blended transitions that creates gentle volume.

How to recognise it

  • smooth continuous transitions at shadow edges

Different from nearby terms

Softer than cel shading and less brush-textured than painterly rendering.

Aliases

ぼかし塗りsoft rendering

Words for AI

Englishsoft smoothly blended shading

日本語滑らかな明暗のソフト塗り