Learn Grease Pencil in Blender - 2D Animation and Storyboard - English

Overview

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Explore the grease pencil feature in Blender 2.82 for 2D animation and storyboarding in this comprehensive tutorial. Learn to use Blender with a tablet, manipulate the 3D cursor, and create grease pencil objects. Master drawing modes, stroke projection, and grid visualization. Discover techniques for editing strokes, managing layers, and customizing materials. Dive into animation basics, including keyframing, onion skinning, and inbetweening. Practice inking with predefined shapes and bezier curves, and perfect your coloring skills. Experiment with modifiers to create cycles, add noise, and adjust thickness. Create parallax effects, animate objects, and edit animation curves. Explore scene management and video editing capabilities. Finally, learn how to export your work as a usable file, equipping you with essential skills for 2D animation and storyboarding in Blender.

Syllabus

introduction
how to use blender with a tablet
move the 3D cursor and spawn a grease pencil object
enter drawing mode
strokes projection modes
show the grid representing the plane where we draw
erase everything
change stroke data
---- layers
---- edit stroke material stroke and fill color
use edit mode on strokes
use object mode on strokes
edit mode shortcuts
sculpt mode
drawing tools
---- eraser tool
---- fill tool
reproject all strokes on a plane flatten the grease pencil object
what's in the animation file template
---- world background
---- camera
---- default stroke
---- materials
---- brushes
---- timeline and dopesheet
simple animation
sketch
---- setup for the sketch
---- add keyframe with onion skin
---- make inbetween
---- use edit mode practically
---- copy some content of a frame to another
---- use sclupt mode practically
---- overwrite a frame with another
---- change the animation duration
---- scale time between keyframes
---- move multiple keyframe at once
inking
---- setup for the inking
---- use predefined shapes
---- bezier curves
---- simple bezier curves
---- lines
---- smoothening hand drawn lines
---- cleanup
coloring
---- setup for the coloring
---- filling
---- correct with the sculpting tool
move the pivot point origin point
add modifiers
---- create a cycle
-------- copies and instances
-------- cancel transformation
---- noise modifier
---- thickness modifier
---- smothness modifier
---- tint modifier
---- offset by keyframe
parallax effect
move the camera
animate objects
change animation curve
scenes
---- make a new scene
---- video editing
exporting as a usable file
real file