Learn Grease Pencil 2D Animation in Blender 2.8 Alpha 2
Hi people! Matias Mendiola now, storyboard artist and is part of the grease pencil team as you know Grease Pencil wasmerged recently into Blender 2.8 Alpha 2 I want to show you in this quick videothe basics of Grease Pencil and how it use but before we start please be aware thatGrease Pencil is in Alpha so you can expect a lot of progress and a lot ofchanges in the future. Too be aware that Grease Pencil and EEVEE require a goodgraphics poster to play neatly so be aware of that too.That’s it. Let’s start! As you may know the aged Grease Pencil was separated in two different implements. new grease pencil upset so if you onlywant to add notes here in the schoolchild or in other writers in blender you shoulduse annotation annotation had just been very basic setting to do that if you want tomake complex things like to the animation or storyboarding you shoulduse the grease pencil object you can find annotation at the bottom of thetoolbar to add new tones only adopt the rotate implement and start to draw a frikkin there are also other annotation tool formake wires polygons for the light-footed tone use the eraser the tones are grouped inlayers in the sidebar you’ll find an annotation board for cope the mention youcan add or delete new note strata change the colour the thickness and turnon ofthe visibility but if you want to hide all of your memorandum at once you can go tothe open a popup and turn off annotation RIS pencil is not anymore all over theplace in the blender boundary is now a real new option in blender with its ownproperties and states so let’s see how to work with this new object to startworking with grease pencil we need to firstly lent a brand-new option to work with toadd the objective go to the add menu on your fangerous pencil there with threeoption blank to add an empty-headed object to a start from scratchstroke to add a simple line among key to add a 2d Suzanne stroke a ape havealso continued layers and materials to make it easier to start working inoption more grease pencil reacts like any other updating blender you can moverotate scale parent or do anything that other object in blender could there areseveral places where you can find things related to grease pencil the object datawhere you can find the 2d coating and named object dimensions the material panel tocreate information for stroke and battleground modifiers with a special modifier forgrease pencil the effects a totally new concept in blender to add realtimeeffects in the viewport in the top expanse accept has its own mode to animatetheir keyframes there is also a section in overlays for grease pencil and incertain procedures like in pro mode you can find a special touches in the toolbarand top bar and in the tool setting to help artists blender will have anespecial workspace called 2d animation the workplace reminds to the paintingsoftware the white background help to work with black strokes you have atoolbar in grow mode that pictures a determined of preset covers on the right side theopposite liner substances are very useful at the bottom you have a timeline and atop sheet to work with your 2d animations let’s do a speedy select session to knowmore about covers beds and materials we are going to start with a blankgrease pencil up begin and enter in draw mode by default the apoplexy will beplaced at object origin but you can use 3d cursor or induced face if you wantthe easiest method to know where you are going to draw in the 3d opening isactivate the cameras grid in overlays open your stroke to one of the axis YX ozzie in our case we’re going to lock on Y and enter in camera view and to getrid of these warning things I’ll turn off all the overlaysbefore start roaming I’m gonna lend some new information renamed ad format us blackand add a great one with solid replenish shade you Akira’s is not just solid pigments you canalso create more complex cloths with texture or gradient if you wantto start selecting select one of the preset brushings then adopt the materialsyou want to use and start to draw on the viewport to keep your drawing planned you canadd delete or revise to the coatings in the object data body you are able to locklayers turn on/ off visibility or modify the opacity the brushings are actuallypreset provides you can change the settings in the top forbid and in the toolsettings for different roll design causes to raise you can select one of theracers soft heart or text to the light-headed and dryer routes a scalp state is very useful to triggergrowing and improve your directions you are eligible to a smooth shank thickness andmove affect gently with proportional editing on in revise mode you can delete purchasesjoin split or subdivided motions in a similar way as mesh objective Phil/ can use to feel a cloud strokesarea with a solid complexion you can use Alt key to create temporary frontier strokesto close an open region and above this copy of your hue or you can holdctrl key to Mono you gleaned solid replenish regions you can add modifiers or results to yourgrease pencil object to deform change color and many other things in anondestructive way last I want to show you how to work on abird basic living we are going to change their courage look contribute insome keyframe and using the duck sheet to adjust the timing to work in theanimation use the top membrane and make sure you are using the grease pencilcontext rich pencil will create a keyframe on every make you suck newstrokes you can start with a blank make or youcan print an existing key make with shifty on the top membrane for apply onionskinning you have to turn it down on the bed you want to use and likewise be surethat you have the onion skinning overlay activated move your keyframes to adjust timing well that’s all for now this was justanother view of grease pencil retained grease pencil is an alpha version andstay tuned because we are working on a more details it I complete lessons tobe published on the blender guild so see you there and abide adjusted and thanks forwatching bye
