Unlocking the Secrets of Blender Grease Pencil Animation

It took me many hours of digging through YouTube tutorials to learn grease pencil, and now I've squashed all of that knowledge into 9 minutes. This is literally all you need to know to start doing 2d animation in Blender. The hardest part is knowing where things are, and now you know. Captions provided by the amazing LowKey, thank you so much!

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The CG Essentials Camera Tutorial, excellent for beginners:

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0:14 Stating a new drawing/animation file
1:13 Draw Mode
2:38 Layers
3:58 Colors
5:51 Animation
7:00 Demo

7#tutorial #blender #greasepencil #animation #2danimation #blender3d

[pamhampton]

Good tut, but you can change colors that have used the COLOR ATTRIBUTE, instead of a material. Just click on the TINT TOOL, pick a color and stroke. You can actually get a blend effect with this tool. Scrolling to right on the passed RADIUS and FILL, you can choose whether the TINT effects FILL, STROKE, or BOTH.

[pinwino]

i love how entertaining you are in this vid, ive been dreading to begin tackling this but your energy makes me feel better

[JayTheDevGuy]

Wow, I considered myself an intermediate/advanced Grease Pencil user, but I learned SO much from this tutorial! I've never seen a GP tutorial so densely packed with useful info, and the fact this is only a month old means all of this should be relevant for a long time. Thank you for posting! I've never subscribed to a tutorial channel so fast.

[jochenretter]

This is the pace I'm looking for. Thank you for not wasting my time and giving everything I want. 👍👍

[kikon]

Dude. This should be the starting tutorial for everyone getting on Grease Pencil. I have been on it for months and not saying anything bad about all the other brilliant educators out there because I love them all....Mumu Mundo Sophie Jantak Dantti Kevandram tuat555 CG Cookie and many many more. But this is so straight to the point that it is insane. Welcome to my life and to the galaxy of brilliant stars of Blender!
I'm following you and tagging you in what I do very soon!

[CrimsonDog-bpbz]

Wow, I have watched about ten videos already and thought of giving up but this is truly the luck of the day. Thank you so much for the explanation.

[bridgeyboo]

As someone who has a hard time without subtitles, thank you for adding subtitles and thanks for making this very useful tutorial!

[MEDRAZCOOL]

Thanks for making this! I'm excited to see more 2d animation/ grease pencil tutorials in blender, heah!

[samdavepollard]

insanely good video; ridiculous how much good stuff you managed to pack into eight and a half minutes
top job, my friend
subbed

[Breadnewsbears]

Making it look so easy! Found this really helpful, thanks!

[princessthyemis]

This is so brillant!!! It's wonderfully explained and thank you for telling me about the layers shortcut! That will be sooo useful! I also love the idea of creating a shadows layer at the beginning! I'm totally gonna have to use that!!!

[theone.whoasked]

I'll probably forget this tutorial exists later but THANK YOU FOR WRITING SUBTITLES

[FrostDrive]

The tutorial was really really great! Until HYah HyAH HYAH. I just can't focus on any other words now D:

[radar]

Congratulations for the "mouth sound effects". Good video!

[Clasesd]

so coool tutorial, so useful and dynamic, thanks a lot now you have a new sub

[Leukick]

Can you draw on transparent backgrounds, and render out drawings with a transparent background?

[Artistramd]

This is Brilliant! I've learned something and your tutorial was very entertaining! Instant Subscriber. Thank you so much!

[Sanimated]

Nice tutorial 👍Could you explain in the end while doing the eye mouth animation why did you duplicated your keyframes if you could just draw and auto keyframes would done the same?

[weez]

the demo at the end. Its actually easy?? Also it is already called layers

[Spamkromite]

My SHIFT + A doesn't have the Grease Pencil. I wonder why 😭I need to draw a little on my viewport to follow a shape with some vertexes but it's been a while and the pen like it disappeared from my Blender or something, ack!