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For anime style you'll need a little more than just a few shaders. The models themselves need to be distortable and perspective-dependent.

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I know very little about this field - why would a model need to be distorted to give an anime look? (Also, what does perspective-dependent mean in this context?)

Re: perspective-dependence: I'm assuming they meant that in actually hand-drawn anime, things like hairstyles or eyes are not realistic because they switch shapes and locations depending on the perspective (like, both eyes always visible even when almost-sideways, or hair spikes switching from left to right when the character turns, etc).

Good, and incredible impressive, examples are recent entries into the Guilty Gear series, such as Guilty Gear Xrd: Revelator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY1RpK1vbTo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z5-97rfHEg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHp3fmDypg0

One early example in the first video is the shell casing, which is replaced with a model that has some motion blur-like extensions.

Here’s a short pdf breakdown of the shading tricks used in this game:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ltkinwnmmzurjw/GuilltyGearXrd_sha...

Thanks! For anyone interested, I found a paper on the topic (pdf):

"View-dependent geometry" [Paul Rademacher, 1999]

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall00/cs597b/p...

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