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That is a smart way of getting around most of the headache of painting in grease pencil (layers for just the colours) I will try this on my next shot! Also, you say that you want to polish further, but I have always liked the slightly sketchy look... and it lends itself well to grease pencil, too! Really nice piece.
Thanks for the great comment! I work in Toon Boom some, and that is where I learned to separate the line art and color art. The process works great in Grease Pencil. Concerning the polishing, I'm glad you like the sketchy look. I think it works with this piece. I do think a few more frames of him standing up would help smooth things out a bit. Thanks again!
Another fantastic video from you 👏 I love how you speak your mind while drawing, which gives us insight on why you did this specific step when drawing, unlike many other artists who speed paint and call it a day. Seriously ❤. I saw you used ToonBoom before, could you please explain how Blender make things easier/difficult for you compared to toonboom? It look like toonboom is the industry standard nowadays, which make new people to indie animation wonders how to choose between the two (Beside that Blender is free while toonboom is not).
Thanks for watching. I really like having things explained to me, so I try to do the same in my videos. Glad it is helpful! I should consider creating a Toon Boom vs Blender Grease Pencil video; however, I'm not certain I know Grease Pencil well enough. I haven't used Grease Pencil as much as Toon Boom, especially for processes like rigging. Rigging in Toon Boom is really great. My best guess would be if you plan on working in the industry, you should probably learn Toon Boom. To my knowledge, Blender isn't an industry standard for 3D or 2D. I've tried a lot of 3D software as well, including Cinema 4D and Modo. If you are an independent animator, I would absolutely recommend Blender, not just because of the cost. The development process for Blender is so fast, and I love the interface so much more than the other 3D programs I've used.
@@davidpikedesigns if you want to make a video to highlight the differences (which I appreciate if you do) I would say to wait until the version 3 of grease pencil comes out, the 3rd version will have a complete rewrite of grease pencil. A team with experience in both 2d and 3d work on it right now. The team of 3 or 4 and one of them is Falk David a guy with experience in 2d, 3d and the technical aspects of both, he was working on blender adding features when he was employed by *SPA studio (their version of blender also available for free with multiple useful things that isn't part of blender 2d tools yet) The full rewrite is aiming to improve performance, memory usage, architecture, and API. It will also open the door for new features and tools, such as Geometry Nodes, screen space global illumination, and better volume rendering. The option to organise Grease Pencil layers into colour-codable layer groups. The timeline is also being refactored, with new options including support for instancing drawings across multiple layers, with updates to the original drawing propagating to the instances. *SPA Studios is known for its work on films such as "Despicable Me", "Smallfoot", "Rio", or most recently their 2d film "Klaus", Netflix's first original feature animated film. It's safe to say version 3 will be a game changer for 2d.
Thanks for the additional information! I think it might be released by now. I have Blender 4.0.1 installed, which should include Grease Pencil 3 (I think). Thanks again!
@@davidpikedesigns it's part of 4.0 but as experimental feature. It's not released as stable or final, which imply it does not have all the features the team announced to be part of GP3. Though I encourage you to test it and probably make a video about it. And I highly recommend you to send feedback to the dev team. Because in this stage it's still in early development and your feedback can influence its future. Basically reporting bugs or suggesting better way to do the thing or requesting a new tools or features from other 2D software or suggest a better way for existing tool to be used.
Grease Pencil is the 2D module within Blender, a free 3D open source program. Blender is great to work in. I highly recommend it if you are considering a 3D application.
I'm on a custom-built PC with a AMD 5950X and 64GB of RAM, but I'm a graphic designer, so I needed a higher end computer at the time. I only upgrade every few years.
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That's awesome
Thanks for watching!
That is a smart way of getting around most of the headache of painting in grease pencil (layers for just the colours) I will try this on my next shot!
Also, you say that you want to polish further, but I have always liked the slightly sketchy look... and it lends itself well to grease pencil, too! Really nice piece.
Thanks for the great comment! I work in Toon Boom some, and that is where I learned to separate the line art and color art. The process works great in Grease Pencil. Concerning the polishing, I'm glad you like the sketchy look. I think it works with this piece. I do think a few more frames of him standing up would help smooth things out a bit. Thanks again!
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Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!
Another fantastic video from you 👏
I love how you speak your mind while drawing, which gives us insight on why you did this specific step when drawing, unlike many other artists who speed paint and call it a day. Seriously ❤.
I saw you used ToonBoom before, could you please explain how Blender make things easier/difficult for you compared to toonboom? It look like toonboom is the industry standard nowadays, which make new people to indie animation wonders how to choose between the two (Beside that Blender is free while toonboom is not).
Thanks for watching. I really like having things explained to me, so I try to do the same in my videos. Glad it is helpful! I should consider creating a Toon Boom vs Blender Grease Pencil video; however, I'm not certain I know Grease Pencil well enough. I haven't used Grease Pencil as much as Toon Boom, especially for processes like rigging. Rigging in Toon Boom is really great. My best guess would be if you plan on working in the industry, you should probably learn Toon Boom. To my knowledge, Blender isn't an industry standard for 3D or 2D. I've tried a lot of 3D software as well, including Cinema 4D and Modo. If you are an independent animator, I would absolutely recommend Blender, not just because of the cost. The development process for Blender is so fast, and I love the interface so much more than the other 3D programs I've used.
@@davidpikedesigns if you want to make a video to highlight the differences (which I appreciate if you do) I would say to wait until the version 3 of grease pencil comes out, the 3rd version will have a complete rewrite of grease pencil.
A team with experience in both 2d and 3d work on it right now. The team of 3 or 4 and one of them is Falk David a guy with experience in 2d, 3d and the technical aspects of both, he was working on blender adding features when he was employed by *SPA studio (their version of blender also available for free with multiple useful things that isn't part of blender 2d tools yet)
The full rewrite is aiming to improve performance, memory usage, architecture, and API. It will also open the door for new features and tools, such as Geometry Nodes, screen space global illumination, and better volume rendering. The option to organise Grease Pencil layers into colour-codable layer groups.
The timeline is also being refactored, with new options including support for instancing drawings across multiple layers, with updates to the original drawing propagating to the instances.
*SPA Studios is known for its work on films such as "Despicable Me", "Smallfoot", "Rio", or most recently their 2d film "Klaus", Netflix's first original feature animated film.
It's safe to say version 3 will be a game changer for 2d.
Thanks for the additional information! I think it might be released by now. I have Blender 4.0.1 installed, which should include Grease Pencil 3 (I think). Thanks again!
@@davidpikedesigns it's part of 4.0 but as experimental feature. It's not released as stable or final, which imply it does not have all the features the team announced to be part of GP3.
Though I encourage you to test it and probably make a video about it. And I highly recommend you to send feedback to the dev team. Because in this stage it's still in early development and your feedback can influence its future. Basically reporting bugs or suggesting better way to do the thing or requesting a new tools or features from other 2D software or suggest a better way for existing tool to be used.
Thanks again! I'll check into it. I haven't been using the experimental version, but I can certainly download it and give it a try.
I never heard of blender grease pencil?
Grease Pencil is the 2D module within Blender, a free 3D open source program. Blender is great to work in. I highly recommend it if you are considering a 3D application.
@@davidpikedesigns I've tried blender once and twice. Can I ask what kind of computer you use for the. Ram in blender
I'm on a custom-built PC with a AMD 5950X and 64GB of RAM, but I'm a graphic designer, so I needed a higher end computer at the time. I only upgrade every few years.
@@davidpikedesigns thats cool