BLENDER TUTORIAL - How to Create a Ghost Silhouette Effect in Blender

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Hello everyone!

In this brief tutorial, we'll see how to make the faces of an object transparent based on their orientation relative to the camera, achieving the effect visible in the rendering I'm showing on the screen right now. This is therefore an effect that highlights only the silhouette of an object, allowing its shape to be glimpsed while also showing other objects inside it.

This is a basic tutorial and was made using version 3.6 of Blender, specifically with the Cycles rendering engine. However, the nodes used have been available in several versions of the software and, presumably, will continue to be available in the future.

In the scene I am using for this example, there are two objects placed inside a container, providing a backdrop to the objects...