My Blender 2D/3D Process with Grease Pencil

Since a few people have asked, I created a quick overview of my process in Blender to create stylized models with a combination of 2D and 3D elements. I hope you find some of this useful!

Any questions please ask and I will help if I can!

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// Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:33 Setup
01:03 3D Modelling
06:34 Materials
11:43 Grease Pencil Outline
15:28 Grease Pencil Drawing
24:04 Final Animation
25:08 Outro

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[blackopscg]

This video just looks like 25 minutes, but I spend more than 3hours to learn it step by step; Thanks again.

[cheeksblaster]

Grease Pencil is an untapped section there really aren't many videos about it, keep at it and you'll see enormous growth on youtube in my humble opinion. Great video

[human]

I've watched a ton of blender tutorials and your way of explaining everything is THE BEST. You explain EVERYTHING with a simple "why" without over explaining or not even saying how or why. I hate it when people just move so fast you don't even see what they clicked on you have to pause it 100 times and then they don't even tell you WHY. This was perfect. Thank you!!!

[Scobbo]

For a tutorial that was not for beginners and won't go in depth, I felt like this went a lot deeper than I was expecting. It was still pretty easy to follow and things were explained for someone who doesn't really use blender to often like me. Thanks dude, this looks great!

[MattBixler]

8:57 this blew me away. not only do i love being able to play with my background color without honking my whole lighting setup, i've also been trying to figure out a better way to draw in blender with an image reference, and i think this might be the solution. thank you so much!

[piorism]

FYI you can avoid the workaround of having to manipulate the object in order to review it from different angles, by enabling "View Lock > Camera to View" for the main camera. That way you'll be able to navigate/rotate the viewport (from within the camera view, hence showing the camera-generated GP lines) without having to worry about the lines shifting from the object.

[MistformD]

Good stuff. I’ve been using Blender for two weeks. ( 8 years using Maya professionally). Seeing this type of freedom in work is refreshing.

[sincerelytheo]

Oh my god i was agonizing over trying to figure out how to create this style in blender less than a week ago, and now the perfect video lands right in my recommended. Thank you for making this!!

[prometheuszero]

Dang, this is a great video! Not only helpful for the style I am working on for my 3D but there's also lots of useful shortcuts in here that I hadn't learned yet, like using Alt + D so that the copied meshes will change whenever the source mesh changes. There were a few others that I wasn't aware of as well but I forgot them... gonna rewatch and take notes! Edit: Oh yeah, Ctrl + F2 to rename multiple objects. Nice!

[IBubblesTV]

This is one of the best quick and easy tutorials on how to 2D/3D out there! Thank you!

[jeremiestern]

It looks insane! I've always been scared to try grease pencil lineart, vut you make it look easy and make me want to try it out for myself! Thanks for the inspiration! (+1 sub)

[wahyu]

> Found this on my recommendation
> Great video with clear explanation
> See the channel and this is the only tutorial video

I hope i get to see more of your blender videos and thank you for sharing

[pragnyajain]

Loving the work flow 🫡🫡. We need more videos like this!!

[ffurrr]

This is such a clear a good tutorial. It has helped me understand greasepencil better than any other tut. Really appreciate your hard work putting this together. Thank you so much!

[Maxwelliswho]

Finally decided to try out the grease pencil after seeing this on tiktok. You absolutely rule, easy to follow along and so many small general tips that are valuable to remember. Again, you rule, thank you!

[ConstantineG]

This looks fantastic... The details near the end really brought it to life. I wonder if it's possible to bake all of this in a way that can be transferred into a game engine such as Unity.

[TheShadesOfBlack]

I've spent so much time looking up how to do outlines and cartoon shaders and NONE of them were as easy or as elegant as whats presented in this video. Incredible work.

[micmacha]

I've found that you can also render to transparent (with "Film" under the render tab), and the in the compositor, alpha the rendered image over a background color or texture. It also solves the background lighting issue.

[yezzzsir]

Great walkthrough! I haven't played with the Grease pencil outline modifier as yet, it looks pretty useful for Things I like to do. Thanks for putting this together. 🙂

[harrydsgn]

Unironically a great tutorial for some simple modeling things I wasn't aware of as a not quite total beginner. Love this!