✨My Beginner Guide to Blender Grease Pencil is out! ✨EVERYTHING you need to know -- ruclips.net/video/cprYwZ9sFSo/видео.html I'm working my way through ✨THE LIST✨let me know what you want to see next! ✨
YES!! yes they are 😅 Getting rid of a whole section when you just want to edit a --tiny-- bit is quite annoying, sometimes I've found it better to just try and edit the points and move them where I want them to go instead!
@@kdsketch OH!!! WOW!!! Thank you !! just what I was looking for ive Been carefully coloring it by closing all the sharp edges first! even on a clean line, Erasing on the color layer is a big no no for me haha so I just have to dance around it! But you've just answered what most can't on the forums 🥰 Cheers KD!
I've never used Blender or it's Grease Pencil tool, but I've been curious to see it in action from a production perspective. I've learnt a fair bit from this video KD, so thanks for that. My question to you now would be, which do you prefer? TVPaint or Grease Pencil for completing your projects? [Cough] *Storytime* [Cough]
Thank you! 👋 glad you enjoyed the video! I feel like it’s easier to make roughs in blender - sculpt tool is amazing, love that I can draw off the canvas and reposition stuff easily without it losing quality because it’s vector. Camera tool definitely has more control. Modifiers are amazing. I still prefer TVPaint for lining, colouring and adding texture which is slower in blender or at least needs more problem solving. TVPaint has more blending modes, useful features for spacing out the frames and organisation is better (though I’d still like TVP to add folders to the layer panel). I’m hoping that trying out the story add on will make things clearer but for now TVPaint has the edge 😅
I really should just start my day with your videos to get a boost of inspiration that'll lead to productivity ^-^ love your stuff as always. OH! btw I followed your PNG tuber tutorial, SUPER HELPFUL
NICE! I need to take a look at the 3D side soon -- next Blender project is going to be a 2D background in a 3D space and sketching over the top of models/blocks 😅 Got to work my way through the 1000+ features Blender has!
@@kdsketch I'm looking forward to it, it baffles me how complex it is and I'm sure I'll be doing things the "hard way' and finding out later there's an easier way X'D
I have a full guide with timestamps here EVERYTHING You Need to Animate with Blender Grease Pencil (Beginner Guide) ruclips.net/video/cprYwZ9sFSo/видео.html :)
Not sure if this would be more efficient or not but you can keyframe the camera and monitor icons that are displayed in the outliner, this would make the backgrounds and other objects appear and disappear from the viewport or render (So if you want to make the backgrounds go away without having to move them away you can just keyframe the viewport (Monitor) and Render (Camera) filters and re-enable them when they're needed!) Great animation and background btw! Really inspiring!!
Thank you so much, really glad you liked the video! I did test key framing the viewport/renders but it didn’t seem to work (every time I open blender there seems to be a little bug just for me that is fine everywhere else 😂) I’ll probably give it another go to see whether it was version specific - I’ve finally updated after realising you can download blender on steam without having to reinstall everything! Also need to test the story add on since it seems to actin a way similar to the other animation programs I’m used to using 👌 thanks for the support! Really appreciate it ✨
Hello, when i try to import image as palanes 4:55 my image resolutions decrease to low reso. If i import as background it look HD again. How to import my image as planes looks HD or as real as the images resolution?
So from what I’ve seen on forums/Reddit scaling up the plane instead of adjusting the camera to fit the size of the background will cause some blur - so it’s been suggested to add backgrounds in the compositing stage/section of blender to keep the resolution.
@@kdsketch oke thankyou🙏. Do you open course? I want to try make 2d like this (ruclips.net/video/7XaEV7REcfs/видео.html) i alrd learn the basic but i think i still need course😄
storyboarding + animatics can help a lot with setting up the layout, shots and character movements! I'll be sure to cover more of this in future blender videos!
I love this! As always you explain everything perfectly to be easily understood. I love the attention to the smaller components to the process as well. Thank you for making this video!
Thank you so much, that means a lot! I’m glad the video was helpful - I try and include all the details and bits I think I would struggle with if I had to start again 😂
@@kdsketch I know you’re a one person studio and it is very inspiring to someone who has to do this on a budget or without one lol I’d also love to have you critique some of my test and finished animations. I’m sure a lot of your viewers would want your opinion on their animation progression.
Great project. I love your videos. I just thought that I would jump in and say that you can use the 'scene' feature in Blender (top right of the screen) to keep your file a little cleaner, while still keeping the whole project in one blender file, though you will still need to use Blender's video sequece editor to combine them. This is great for small projects and animatics, but for larger projects I would still recomend using separate files for each shot. Thanks again for the video. Very helpful and educational :D
Alternativly, instead of moving the background images in and out of camera view, I would recommend setting up all the backgrounds next to each other, and moving the camera object, or using 'markers' in the time line to swtich between multiple cameras at the right moment. This would consolidate the amount of animation, and reduce the need to flip between different objects just to make a cut betweeen two shots. :D
Thank you so much! This is super helpful, I’ll definitely be trying out the new scene and multiple camera method - I also want to give the story add on a try which looks like it does something similar 🙏 I think I was about halfway through the animation before I realised I should have set it up differently…but was too stubborn to change it and start over 😂 even if it would have been better in the long run!
This is very insightful video, thank you for sharing! I was wondering how you did the fade-into-darkness scene towards the end (when the character enters the creature's mouth) because for the life of me, I can't seem to find a way to do a fade-in or fade-out for 2d animation in blender for a simple plane. But I see you ended up using tv paint for that bit!
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed the video:) You can key frame the opacity of grease pencils but sometimes it’s easier to export and do it in another program- any editing software will work too :)
Thank you!! So glad you liked the video - this one took me around 40 - 50 hours! I livestreamed for 30 of them - think I mention it in the video haha, there should be a timestamp for it :) Definitely making more 2D stuff in Blender in the future though!
@@kdsketch hehe, i realised you mentioned it in the video as well. Thanks for replying ❤️ im learning grease pencil and have been following your videos. They're such a lifesaver 🌸
No worries! Tbh replying to comments is one of my fave things so 😂 so glad the videos have helped! I’ll be doing more blender stuff as I figure it out ✨
Glad you liked the video! Maybe draw your character a couple of times with different stroke sizes so you can see which you like best :) if the character is small on the canvas you might want to reduce the brush size to make things easier to read.
@@kdsketch Thank you for the complement! Every one I make, gets easier and better. But it is a lot more work the I ever imagined. I respect animators so much more now! Your video inspired me to do better! know I'm not the only one you helped. Thank you for your help too!
Depends on what you want to do, BUT if you want something free to work on your own projects and maybe include 3D, I'd say Blender. If you're looking to get into the industry or freelance, a lot of people use Adobe Animate - it already has rigging and FBF tools sorted while Blender is just getting started BUT it's a monthly subscription. Every software will have pros and cons so you have to figure out which is the right software for you :)
@@kdsketch sweet thanks, love your content BTW. I'm a graphic designer with more of a love for illustration who has been doing some novice level motion graphics lol but I'm trying to improve those skills. frame by frame is challenging for me, but want to get better at it.
Hi, this vid amazing, but I'm confused, as to how you are able to use the color attribute, because no matter how i select it, it does not work😅 it's still just the material and nothing changes… could you please explain, because i can't find it online, so i can't continue with my first animation😢
This tutorial will explain it better ruclips.net/video/Ji7TMz3mMcY/видео.html currently working on a total blender for beginner video BUT if this video doesn’t clear it up I’ll write out the steps :)
@@kdsketch No, it did not really help, because you just select the color attribute button, and it changes the color… But when I kick it and turn it on, it still uses the material color, as if I had it not selected… Is it a bug, or is there a different setting? don't understand it, so frustrating that i can't find anything about this.
So there’s the material and colour attribute buttons at the top - make sure attribute is selected and then change the colour beside it and it should let you draw with that specific colour. If attribute is selected I’m not sure why material is the one being used?
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✨My Beginner Guide to Blender Grease Pencil is out! ✨EVERYTHING you need to know -- ruclips.net/video/cprYwZ9sFSo/видео.html
I'm working my way through ✨THE LIST✨let me know what you want to see next! ✨
Blender is amazing and it felt premium but My God, The Fill bucket tool and Eraser for colors are tricky.
YES!! yes they are 😅 Getting rid of a whole section when you just want to edit a --tiny-- bit is quite annoying, sometimes I've found it better to just try and edit the points and move them where I want them to go instead!
@@kdsketch OH!!! WOW!!! Thank you !! just what I was looking for ive Been carefully coloring it by closing all the sharp edges first! even on a clean line, Erasing on the color layer is a big no no for me haha so I just have to dance around it! But you've just answered what most can't on the forums 🥰 Cheers KD!
That’s amazing, so glad I could help!!
I've never used Blender or it's Grease Pencil tool, but I've been curious to see it in action from a production perspective. I've learnt a fair bit from this video KD, so thanks for that.
My question to you now would be, which do you prefer? TVPaint or Grease Pencil for completing your projects? [Cough] *Storytime* [Cough]
Thank you! 👋 glad you enjoyed the video! I feel like it’s easier to make roughs in blender - sculpt tool is amazing, love that I can draw off the canvas and reposition stuff easily without it losing quality because it’s vector. Camera tool definitely has more control. Modifiers are amazing.
I still prefer TVPaint for lining, colouring and adding texture which is slower in blender or at least needs more problem solving. TVPaint has more blending modes, useful features for spacing out the frames and organisation is better (though I’d still like TVP to add folders to the layer panel). I’m hoping that trying out the story add on will make things clearer but for now TVPaint has the edge 😅
I really should just start my day with your videos to get a boost of inspiration that'll lead to productivity ^-^ love your stuff as always. OH! btw I followed your PNG tuber tutorial, SUPER HELPFUL
Ah thank you so much! I'm so glad you like the videos and that the PNG tuber tutorial was helpful ✨ Looking forward to making more videos :D
There's so many steps to it people don't realise how much work it is x.x
I know because I do animation and I don't know how many steps there are x)
Soooo many steps 😂 they think you just get the computer to do it all for you! Loved your latest video by the way Ant! ✨🙌✨
@@kdsketch haha, thanks! This video of yours was great too it's fun to see your entire process and I'm also sure it helped a lot of people :D
I love this kind video explain the flow of the process from start to end...
Thank you! So glad you liked the video, there will be more of these as I make things ✨
nice, this duck is happy by seeing this video
i wont hit you with my beak now
😂 thanks for that
My friend and I are teaching ourselves how rig characters in 3D soon (we're currently learning Greasepencil together)
NICE! I need to take a look at the 3D side soon -- next Blender project is going to be a 2D background in a 3D space and sketching over the top of models/blocks 😅 Got to work my way through the 1000+ features Blender has!
I'm just starting off in grease pencil and it is overwhelming but I'm excited! Thank you for sharing your process
So glad you liked the video/found it helpful! I’m planning on doing a full walkthrough of how I animate in blender GP soon!
@@kdsketch I'm looking forward to it, it baffles me how complex it is and I'm sure I'll be doing things the "hard way' and finding out later there's an easier way X'D
The story board is in my head
what is your system requirement for grease pencil ?
I have a full guide with timestamps here EVERYTHING You Need to Animate with Blender Grease Pencil (Beginner Guide)
ruclips.net/video/cprYwZ9sFSo/видео.html :)
Not sure if this would be more efficient or not but you can keyframe the camera and monitor icons that are displayed in the outliner, this would make the backgrounds and other objects appear and disappear from the viewport or render (So if you want to make the backgrounds go away without having to move them away you can just keyframe the viewport (Monitor) and Render (Camera) filters and re-enable them when they're needed!) Great animation and background btw! Really inspiring!!
Thank you so much, really glad you liked the video! I did test key framing the viewport/renders but it didn’t seem to work (every time I open blender there seems to be a little bug just for me that is fine everywhere else 😂) I’ll probably give it another go to see whether it was version specific - I’ve finally updated after realising you can download blender on steam without having to reinstall everything! Also need to test the story add on since it seems to actin a way similar to the other animation programs I’m used to using 👌 thanks for the support! Really appreciate it ✨
Hello, when i try to import image as palanes 4:55 my image resolutions decrease to low reso. If i import as background it look HD again. How to import my image as planes looks HD or as real as the images resolution?
So from what I’ve seen on forums/Reddit scaling up the plane instead of adjusting the camera to fit the size of the background will cause some blur - so it’s been suggested to add backgrounds in the compositing stage/section of blender to keep the resolution.
@@kdsketch oke thankyou🙏. Do you open course? I want to try make 2d like this (ruclips.net/video/7XaEV7REcfs/видео.html) i alrd learn the basic but i think i still need course😄
storyboarding + animatics can help a lot with setting up the layout, shots and character movements! I'll be sure to cover more of this in future blender videos!
I love this! As always you explain everything perfectly to be easily understood. I love the attention to the smaller components to the process as well. Thank you for making this video!
Thank you so much, that means a lot! I’m glad the video was helpful - I try and include all the details and bits I think I would struggle with if I had to start again 😂
@@kdsketch I know you’re a one person studio and it is very inspiring to someone who has to do this on a budget or without one lol I’d also love to have you critique some of my test and finished animations. I’m sure a lot of your viewers would want your opinion on their animation progression.
I have a discord (link is in description) so people can post their animations in there and ask for feedback :)
@@kdsketch Will join now.
Great project. I love your videos. I just thought that I would jump in and say that you can use the 'scene' feature in Blender (top right of the screen) to keep your file a little cleaner, while still keeping the whole project in one blender file, though you will still need to use Blender's video sequece editor to combine them. This is great for small projects and animatics, but for larger projects I would still recomend using separate files for each shot. Thanks again for the video. Very helpful and educational :D
Alternativly, instead of moving the background images in and out of camera view, I would recommend setting up all the backgrounds next to each other, and moving the camera object, or using 'markers' in the time line to swtich between multiple cameras at the right moment. This would consolidate the amount of animation, and reduce the need to flip between different objects just to make a cut betweeen two shots. :D
Thank you so much! This is super helpful, I’ll definitely be trying out the new scene and multiple camera method - I also want to give the story add on a try which looks like it does something similar 🙏 I think I was about halfway through the animation before I realised I should have set it up differently…but was too stubborn to change it and start over 😂 even if it would have been better in the long run!
you should have used the scene menu
There’s a lot of things I should have done differently with this project 😂
This is very insightful video, thank you for sharing! I was wondering how you did the fade-into-darkness scene towards the end (when the character enters the creature's mouth) because for the life of me, I can't seem to find a way to do a fade-in or fade-out for 2d animation in blender for a simple plane. But I see you ended up using tv paint for that bit!
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed the video:) You can key frame the opacity of grease pencils but sometimes it’s easier to export and do it in another program- any editing software will work too :)
Thank you so so much for this video. Your channl is very inspiring.
Thank you for watching! So glad you enjoyed the video ✨🙌✨
How long did it take you to do this? Wonderful animation btw 😊
Thank you!! So glad you liked the video - this one took me around 40 - 50 hours! I livestreamed for 30 of them - think I mention it in the video haha, there should be a timestamp for it :) Definitely making more 2D stuff in Blender in the future though!
@@kdsketch hehe, i realised you mentioned it in the video as well. Thanks for replying ❤️ im learning grease pencil and have been following your videos. They're such a lifesaver 🌸
No worries! Tbh replying to comments is one of my fave things so 😂 so glad the videos have helped! I’ll be doing more blender stuff as I figure it out ✨
Thanks mam u are a great guider 😊 please give me some advice for pen stroke size for animate a character .love❤️ from india
Glad you liked the video! Maybe draw your character a couple of times with different stroke sizes so you can see which you like best :) if the character is small on the canvas you might want to reduce the brush size to make things easier to read.
Thanks mam😊
Thank you so much for useful lesson! From Russia with ❤
Glad it helped!
I made and posted my first two 2d short cartoons. I'm working on my 3rd and its better then my first. But wow! Yours is really good.
Nice!! Glad you can see progress in your work already, it’s wild how much you improve just by making things ✨
@@kdsketch Thank you for the complement! Every one I make, gets easier and better. But it is a lot more work the I ever imagined. I respect animators so much more now! Your video inspired me to do better! know I'm not the only one you helped. Thank you for your help too!
So helpful to understand the process. Thank you!
Glad the video helped!
noice
Thanks ✨
Question for anyone, which is better for frame by frame animation between Blender and Adobe Animate?
Depends on what you want to do, BUT if you want something free to work on your own projects and maybe include 3D, I'd say Blender. If you're looking to get into the industry or freelance, a lot of people use Adobe Animate - it already has rigging and FBF tools sorted while Blender is just getting started BUT it's a monthly subscription. Every software will have pros and cons so you have to figure out which is the right software for you :)
@@kdsketch sweet thanks, love your content BTW. I'm a graphic designer with more of a love for illustration who has been doing some novice level motion graphics lol but I'm trying to improve those skills. frame by frame is challenging for me, but want to get better at it.
Did you not receive the none greasy pencil i send you
🤣
Hii KD how are you? Have a nice day 😊
👋 Hi!! Good thanks, hope you have a good day too!
Hi, this vid amazing, but I'm confused, as to how you are able to use the color attribute, because no matter how i select it, it does not work😅 it's still just the material and nothing changes… could you please explain, because i can't find it online, so i can't continue with my first animation😢
This tutorial will explain it better ruclips.net/video/Ji7TMz3mMcY/видео.html currently working on a total blender for beginner video BUT if this video doesn’t clear it up I’ll write out the steps :)
@@kdsketch thx, i will watch it
@@kdsketch No, it did not really help, because you just select the color attribute button, and it changes the color… But when I kick it and turn it on, it still uses the material color, as if I had it not selected… Is it a bug, or is there a different setting? don't understand it, so frustrating that i can't find anything about this.
So there’s the material and colour attribute buttons at the top - make sure attribute is selected and then change the colour beside it and it should let you draw with that specific colour. If attribute is selected I’m not sure why material is the one being used?
@@kdsketch Well thx that you tried to help me, maybe i will need to reinstall blender after this project, and for now work with limited options...
let me do it foorrr youu..
Even months later it's STILL in my head 😂