Stylized Microscope in Blender (Grease Pencil Tutorial)

In this video, @kevandram shows how to create this 2D/3D stylized microscope in Blender. He’ll walk you through modeling, shading, and adding details with Grease Pencil.

CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:19 - What is Grease Pencil?
01:09 - Scene Settings
03:22 - Modeling - Arm
07:14 - Modeling - Stage
11:17 - Modeling - Base
14:10 - Modeling - Light Source
16:24 - Modeling - Tube and Eyepiece
18:19 - Modeling - Focus Dials
21:24 - Modeling - Lenses
25:27 - Modeling - Adjustments
26:05 - Setting Up the Camera
27:33 - Shading - Light Material
33:06 - Shading - Dark Material
36:08 - Lights
36:50 - Grease Pencil - Outlines
39:09 - Grease Pencil - Details
42:22 - Animating - Turret
43:32 - Grease Pencil - Turret Details
44:45 - Grease Pencil - Floor Grid
45:28 - Render Settings
46:06 - Outro
46:16 - Grease Pencil Course

MY SYSTEM
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 3.4GHz
GPU: GeForce RTX 3090
RAM: 64 GB

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[juliusfucik]

You do not need to extrude the points. You can just hit ctrl right click to add a point at the selected point. I have found it is much faster than extruding single points, because you can just click where you want the point.

Also, you could start with circles with more points, so the whole bevel step is no longer needed.

Grease pencil is amazing 👏

[radar]

There are a lot of good tutorials online. You are among the best in explaining each step in a clear way. Thanks.

[twinsparadox]

Just by seeing the thumbnail and I know it's gonna be 💯🔥

[BBRCNGL]

Wow... Huge thanks for the detailed tutorial.

[polaroidsky]

Ran into an issue where the grease pencil was visible through the object when rendered. Thankfully, the solution was pretty simple:

1. Go to view layer properties.
2. Under "Passes<Data" leave everything the same but check 'Z'

Now it should render as you see it in the viewport!

[KnowArt]

very good :) Will be adding some of these techniques to my repertoire

[Crozzer]

Just finished the tutorial, brilliant! Makes me feel more comfortable with Blender than I probably should be! :)

[WhiteDjayanegara]

This kind of videos, which make me never regret to subscribe CGBoost! THANK YOU!

[kevinhouse]

Great tutorial Kevin (Kevan) You cover a ton in this video. Almost more on modelling and materials than GP. Thanks!

[ddeeriring]

45:33 I had a really hard time finding this method. Thank you very much

[TripTilt]

very interesting and showing lots of uses of greasepencil. What a nice appetizer to start doing greasepencil art :)

[spark_coder]

You can also toggle between the different Orthographic views by pressing and holding the tilde key and using the pie menu that pops up.

[sagargairola]

Hlo, i am currently coming from your blender beginner's series and that series is fantastic but i want to know that will you make free advance course.

[moonclayground]

Verryyyy good tutorial!! Very helpful thank you so much! Kevandram

[ChillieGaming]

What was the tris count?
Please tell me.
I know i can checker deselect and remove edge loops and and many bevels
But tell me what was the tris count for this model without optimisation please 🙏🙏🙏

[davidrhoden]

This was too much for me, but I appreciate you showing how to align things to the world origin, I'd always wondered how to do that, and didn't know how to ask the question.

[digitaldreamfx]

thanks for this tutorial But I facing a problem when I render completed model turn it in Line art but in render showing transparent line on model it looks very bad how can i fix this

[polaroidsky]

I was having some difficulty mirroring the objects properly (probably because the orange dot in the arm, whatever it's called, was misaligned). I didn't know how to fix this so this is what I did to fix further issues:

1. SHIFT + S, set curser to world origin
2. SHIFT + A and create new object called Empty < Plain Axis
3. Now when mirroring objects, instead of selecting the mesh you want to mirror across in the mirror object modifier panel, you can select the Empty Plain Axis and it will mirror it according to the world origin.

Hope that helps someone struggling as I did!

[VotechsDigital]

43:30 how are you able to scroll like that in blender with the mouse without scrubbing the timeline manually

[bnyat]

Bro we are still wating to the robots arm? Should we wait longer??