How to Use the Annotate Tool in Blender 3D

How to Annotate in Blender 3D

Blender's Annotate Tool allows us to write notes, lines and other annotations in the 3D scene. Annotations in Blender aren't rendered, but can be useful notes for us or for others we share the file with. We'll cover everything you need to know about annotation in this Blender tutorial.

In this video, we will cover how to annotate, how to delete annotations in Blender, how to change the color of annotations, hiding annotations, managing annotations and much more. If you want to learn about drawing annotations or how the annotate tool works, this Blender 3D tutorial has it all.

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[Pesto-]

Simple, straightforward, and thorough. Nice job!

[ManLikeKitch]

Thank you, Brandon. Saving this to my commonly referred to Blender videos.

[rgsmess]

This is indeed very helpful. I've often wanted to make a note in Blender when things are going wrong (as they usually do) or when I've discovered something.

[NotSoMuchFrankly]

Thank you much! I did not know about notebooks. I usually use "Left click + D" to draw and "right click + D" to erase with the N-panel, View tab rather than the toolbar, but I learned some stuff.

Also fun, you can make the eraser bigger in the section. It's too hard to erase otherwise.

[cas_sim]

There are a few more useful features regarding the Annotation tool. The Stabilize Stroke settings are nice for creating smooth strokes. You can hold Ctrl to Erase. The Annotation settings can be found in the Sidebar under the View Tab. The strokes are Frame-dependent so they can be used for planning animations. In the sidebar, there is a setting for Onion Skinning, which enables different dimmed colors for previous frame and next frame strokes. And then finally there's the Frame lock button. Which will show the current frame's annotations, no matter which frame you move the timeline to. Pretty cool stuff, but I wonder if it may become deprecated because Grease Pencil now does all of these things and obviously has way more functionality. I suppose annotations are still quicker for doing simple things like drawing an arrow or circling something, by holding D and drawing with left-click.

[landoverse]

next, could you do a video explaining applicable uses for annotations? I'm intrigued, though I've never found a use for them. 🤔

[AM-ykyd]

I wish you could move them. I think it's not possible
Switching to Grease pencil for some reason takes several seconds on my computer, while no problem with annotations