Switching to Blender for My 2D Animations

I thought this would be a fun video to make. I'm working on the next luck is me, but in the meantime enjoy this little video.

This video is not a tutorial on Blender Grease Pencil, but rather a brief overview of what it has to offer and what it's like using Blender to create 2D animations.

I used to use Adobe Animate for the first few years of making cartoons. At that point it was basically a forgotten application that Adobe didn't seem to care about. It was expensive because it's month to month. So technically it's infinity dollars. It crashed on me while working on a cartoon and it corrupted the file so not even the autosave could 'save' me. I decided to quite adobe for good and kick the dirt off my shoes. I really don't like adobe.

I then switched to Krita, which is an opensource free animation/digital art application. I love krita dearly. It's raster based which means there are really cool brushes, but it also means you can't easily manipulate a drawing after it's been drawn. For traditional frame by frame animation I do highly recommend Krita, and I'm going to keep my eye on it.

But now I've decided to make the switch to Blender Grease Pencil. I've been watching Blender over the years and it's 2D features have REALLY evolved. I think the potential with creating 2D animations in a 3D space is fascinating and lends itself to immense potential. Plus it's vector based which is a lot better for making quicker animations for youtube. Grease Pencil is just a tool in the Blender tool bar, but with it you can create full fledge 2D animations. I think it is only going to become more popular and more powerful as time goes on. And it's FREE! Eat that Adobe. My dream is to one day open up an animation studio, and I want every animator to be working with the same application, and I think Blender may be the future for 2D animation, or at least it will become one of the standards in the industry.

[LuckisMe]

I'm hard at work on the next Luck is Me, which is about HORSES! But I thought it would be fun to make this video. The next luck is me will be out in a couple weeks!

[marcberm]

Hey! I know this isn't your usual kind of video, but it's pretty neat! It's always interesting to see how other's think and reason through their setup/process. Thank you!

[CopperStarToons]

Haha dude this is crazy, I actually went from using Blender, to then recently switching over to using Krita for my animations!!
Great video btw. Blender has some super neat tools! I think I prefer Krita for the more basic, 2-d layout, as I prefer the more classic animation style, but Blender was pretty sweet too!
Keep it up man, I love your work! Can't wait for a new vid. :)

[EdLrandom]

It's crazy to see 2d artists switching to blender, grease pencil use to be an annotation tool.

[TechDiveAVCLUB]

3 complements you deserve. As a tutorial guy, you nailed the overview! 2. You're so funny that I forget to me mention you're animations are very good! 3. This video would have had me checking out your channel if it was the first one I saw.

[HandleDisliker]

I recall that I wanted to "upgrade" from FlippaClip a year ago and I didn't want Adobe because my house doesn't have internet, so even the "benefits" of a monthly subscription (i.e. " keeping the product up to date and hacker resistant") don't apply to my situation. And so, I ran into Blender (mind you, my problem isn't about price! It is a problem of subscription vs. product. I want to buy something and be able to get right back to where I started after a period of time).

Honestly I never found that good blender 2D tutorial (until now), and I slowly transitioned into 3D modeling, but... honestly, everything said here made sense! This is the 2D Blender tutorial I was looking for, so thank you sir for making this video!

[RyanKingArt]

Cool! You use grease pencil! 👍‍I make tutorials on how to use Blender. I found your channel from CopperStarToon's most recent video. He's my brother in real life actually. 😄

[casandras]

this was so helpful for me!! I’ve been wanting to create digital characters/clothing for avatars on an online platform. I heard some creators use this to make their designs but this +photoshop is intimidating and so hard to understand. but this really encouraged me to keep trying so i can finally open my shop! thank you 🥺 *big hug*

[parichartchantapong]

I can't believe literally no one is talking about how satisfying Nice tutorials voice softs.

[Dantti]

Awesome man! Grease Pencil is so good after the learning curve 🥰

[Monkaehbutgameromg]

the ending of this video made me cry 😢

[MatchaMakes]

That was a really helpful and well paced tutorial. I’ve been looking for something like this to help me with 2d animations in blender and this nailed it. Thanks so much for making this!

[douglasboyle]

A very neat behind the scenes and some good info too. Thanks for sharing it.

[BlueLeef]

AGH I found you again! I hadn't used my old account for so long so when I saw your name pop up again I was ecstatic! You're actually the reason I started using Krita originally, awesome to see you adapting to even more programs. Blenders been a hurdle for me even though it has so many useful tools, this helps make it seem a lot more manageable though, at least starting out.

[alexandreuroz]

A fast, but well explained tutorial ❤❤❤❤

[Descalibrado_]

Yo this video was very informative, I had never seeen those tips from the beginning thank you so much!

[Zandezz.]

Cool. I'm sure at one point, every artist would be using blender based on the amount of them switching over

[unaninated]

Thanks for this behnd the scene of your work. I'm also trying to use blender for 2d animation and you're right it is a steep learning curve

[ripxjaws]

please make more videos on grease pencil for easy wworkflow like settings

[Muted_Marcus]

This is so interesting! My only experience with Blender so far is making the donut, and I can't believe it has a built in modifier for rim lights.