Blender Grease Pencil & Autodesk Maya | The Future of Animation

Why are the most popular animations in the world using Blender's Grease Pencil & Autodesk Maya to create 3D animation ?

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Timestamps

00:01 How Blender Grease Pencil & Autodesk Maya are changing the animation industry
01:17 History & Creation of Blender Grease Pencil
02:40 Class Creatives Masterclass Access
03:35 Across the Spider-Verse: How Blender Grease Pencil & Autodesk Maya is used to revolutionize the 3D animation process
05:32 TMNT Mutant Mayhem: How Blender Grease Pencil & Autodesk were used to create stunning stylized backgrounds and animation
07:18 Blender Grease Pencil: Tool Usage, Open Source Projects, & Community
08:37 Unique workflow using Blender Grease Pencil and Quill
09:49 The future of Blender Grease Pencil | Next Lab VR
11:18 Conclusion

This video features the work from the following artists:

Bozo Balov
Dédouze
TobiTrebelja
Łukasz Rusinek
Maisam Hosaini
Jama Jurabaev
IX Productions
Kris Anka
Christian Haniszewski
Paulette Emerson
David Han
Erid De Carolis
Nick Condo

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[JayTheDevGuy]

I've long believed Grease Pencil is going to change the game in NPR 3D. This video proves me wrong: Grease Pencil has ALREADY changed the game. Thanks for compiling all of the examples in this vid!

[animatorFan]

Didn't even know Blender Grease Pencil was used in the Spiderman movie....sooo proud of what the Blender dev teams have achieved in the 20 years they've been around....so so cool :)

[ValuStudios]

I used to have Lightwave 3D as my main tool for 3D and Adobe flash for 2D.
Nowadays I use Blender for everything. The 2D and 3D integration is perfect for my workflow for feature films, music videos and tv series.

[M_k-zitn]

I think they also found a way to use the software Rebelle in tandem with Houdini for the painterly effect in Gwen's world and Nuke was used to add brush strokes in Miguels world

[NastyKnox]

I hope Maya adapts something similar to Blender's grease pencil.

[mpwzzz]

Nice vid but on TMNT animators had a custom tool to draw on a clear canvas with Maya's PaintFX for all the motion-blur and action lines. Not Maya's grease-pencil or Blue-Pencil. We could also remove specific annoying lines integrated into the rig if it didn't quite work for the angle and adding new ones was also possible. I was blown away when I saw a dying tool I hadn't used in a decade like PFX useful for something again. I also add I want to see what ebsynth can do for a full movie.

[CGBOSSS]

Thank you for sharing what is going on in film animation production. Blender really has come a long way in creating animations love to see blender used in conjunction with Maya.

[tillustrator]

Great video! I thought I could use Procreate Dreams to get into 2D animation. But it seems, that the industry way is another one - the way of Photoshop, Blender and Maya. When I see such videos I think „And all that I have to learn to get into it?“ I really love learning, but it feels like I have consitend to learn technical stuff to not fall back in the game and cannot focus on art stuff. Maybe I should learn teamworking first 😅 I guess my problem is to think that I have it all to learn on my own and be an artistic genius. But it seems that the future way is excellent teamwork and not solo shit.

[djp]

PERSONALY, i think grease pencil needs more brushes, and what not.

[francescocalvi]

Sweet video, enjoyed it very much thank you :)
I gained that studios are using Maya for animation with grease pencil, but I didn't see 'why' they use Maya at all instead of porting most of the production process into Blender. There was an example of a proprietary plugin within Maya to generate outlines, but I'm sure the same technical artists could recreate that within Blender. Atm I'm getting the impression that the main reason why this isn't the case yet is mostly due to companies having existing proprietary plugins for Maya and not wanting to spend the time/money recreating them for Blender. There are some animation features in Maya that aren't native in Blender but are available as purchasable addons, so I can't imagine it being too much of a hinderance. Is it mostly a matter of time until the majority of the animation process is done within Blender (excluding rendering in Katana/etc)? And could a large factor of why companies are still using Maya be simply due to veteran animators being comfortable navigating Maya's UX?

[tchagolago]

Who is the artist for the cutout example in 8:34?

[myhoang]

is there any tutorials out there to do this?

[AndresWalsh]

I wonder if Arnold in Maya could implement something like grease pencil nodes.

[playerkiller]

You think that those tools will be replaced with ai softwares like sora and animation companies will use it to cut costs with animators in the future ?😒

[AlmusFallow]

I just wish there were better ways to do anime lineart in grease pencil. They have several line generators for straight lines and some curves but I need something more like the one in clip studio. Because every time I make a new line it has this weird hard turn edge right in the middle when it would be better to smooth the transition.

[pousthemoco]

I don't think that future of animation Is adding more stuff to the pipeline

[criptocatjr]

Question: who is doing the grease pencil animation the 3d animators or compositors?

[jayreedart]

I think we are still just scratching the surface of what can be produced with Blender. I can't wait to see them make some improvements on interpolation or using AI or geometry nodes for inbetweening.

[eynhos]

If after a few years, Blender's capabilities are equal to Maya's capabilities!! and then if if if again after a few more years, it can become much more advanced than Maya!!! and Maya hasn't improved during this time!!!! then maybe I'll use Blender. Of course, side by side Maya. And of course; let's not forget that the art of animation has nothing to do with software.

[brt]

you are just yapping without substance