In Canvas Studio, the Mesh Toon Material delivers that classic cel-shaded look by mapping incoming light to discrete colour bands instead of smooth gradients. It’s perfect for comics, anime-style games, and any project where you want bold, flat shading rather than photorealism. Internally, the shader relies on a tiny ramp (a “gradient map”) to decide where those bands break.
color – sets the base tint for every band the shader produces; changing this shifts the entire palette of light, mid-tones, and shadow in one step.
With a suitable gradient map assigned behind the scenes, the Mesh Toon Material takes this single colour and snaps the lighting into crisp, stylized steps, giving your models an illustrated, hand-drawn vibe while staying lightweight and fast to render. The outline that is visibile around the sphere is given by the Outline post processing effect, often used with Toon materials.