This is probably one the best tutorials I’ve seen lately. Nice and calm pacing and very well explained which makes it easy to understand and not to get frustrated during learning. Thank you, mate!
One of the best, detailed tutorial for Blender Grease Pencil I've seen for 2.8. You should change the title to "Detailed Introduction To Grease Pencil - Showcase: Character Turnaround" or something like this :-)
Same here. I think I have watched just about every tutorial on Grease Pencil on You Tube there is, and this one is the most informative and straight forward.
love the tutorial thanks! in the grease pencil layers panel underneath the add/remove (-+) button you have a dropdown menu, one of the options is "Autolock Inactive Layers" , imho its a great function to avoid unintentional errors
Thanks for the tutorial. Im just getting back into Blender because of the grease pencil and the way that you present everything making following along outstanding. Thanks again
Mate! Totally awesome run down! This is exactly what I've been trying to figure out a workflow for. JMC lecturers teaching lecturers (well...ex-lecturer) haha!
Nice tutorial i learn a lot thanks and How can i use in grease pencil. Front and back side of character while animating and should i rig also front view and side view for puppet animation thanks again !!
@@PCaggegi oh no i had trouble with the interface i guess i can find some tutorials on dopesheet and how to inbetween etc.would have been fun from you though. ♥️
Why would I? I drew the angles which you would need to model all sides of a character. This is a grease pencil tutorial. Not a modelling one. The modelling part - that's up to you. :)
I am new to Blender/Grease Pencil and I need help. Please read. Let's say I draw an apple in my "RED" file. Then I draw a banana in my "YELLOW" file. Now, I want to move everything into my "GROCERIES" file. So in "RED" I can copy paste, and I can even use Duplicate. But, moving between files doesn't work at all. How do I consolidate my drawings into one file? Or is this a Blender thing, where every new file needs new drawings? Like should I have a mega file of all my drawings/animations?
I thought ya were gonna turn around the character from backside to front side animation, like in animate cc/flash. Animate cc gives much more flexibility than blender in 2d. Blender is perfect for 3d.probably I understood the title wrong.
I think thats a technical term miss understoodment. Turn around is what this form of character concept is called as for having to explain the design of the character in development. What you had in mind by reading the title I would call a turntable presentation of whatever object in whatever form (greasepencil, mesh). Or in the olden days it would just shrunken in x direction and expanded to look like it turns. Well then it just worked for coins or cards.
thanks for this, Paul! it's a great intro to the new Grease Pencil, as well as useful for the character turnaround. i was a bit puzzled at 12:56 - did you import the materials from the blend file you kindly supply on patreon? also, at 6:40 it's important to realise that there has been a switch to Draw mode from Object (you may have mentioned it, but there is a cut there). one final thing i noticed that even with Load UI switched on, blender doesn't remember the 3D View object display method, so it always has to be switched to Render. small point, but it can be disconcerting and made me think at first that the World colour needed tweaking.
Hey Julian! Yes I imported the materials from another file to save time. I outlined how you can make your own, but you can absolutely append these same materials from the free file available. They're just my digital version of a greyscale set.
@@PCaggegi perfect! i have appended your materials and now can carry on, which is great. part of the problem is that when learning something as complex as blender i find it is important to follow exactly what the tutor says, and in this case the word was 'import', which is where i got stuck since i had never appended materials before, and don't know enough about it. with step frame analysis i now see that you land on Append for three frames (then there is a cut), not import, but i missed that before. anyway, it looks like one can append anything from a blender file (and probably link to anything too). i shall now make sure i get a deeper understanding of appending (and linking)!
@@PCaggegi the world setting and rendered view are both good ideas, the only problem for someone unused to working in rendered mode and who uses the most up-to-date nightly build is that i have to save and re-open afresh each day, so if a setting isn't saved in the file metadata, then it won't show up when i reopen it. i don't see why the 3D View display method shouldn't be in the file metadata, but it doesn't seem to be. with the rise of Eevee, i think this should be captured in the file. maybe it will be possible to write an add-on that will do this.
Could you do a video a bit more in depth with the filling? It tends to be a bit wonky and there isn't a lot of good coverage for using it well (fill tool and other methods) - especially with several colors etc and common pitfalls (fills covering other strokes).
Hi Charles, I am planning on revisiting the Grease Pencil in a future tutorial. I currently have a backlog to get through for the next couple of months, so hopefully by that time, 2.80 official will be released, and I can tackle a more in-depth look on the updated tools. It does help to think of this like vector painting vs bitmap painting. There are some amazing artists who handle this tool better than I ever could, but I am willing to give it a go!
can you turn on the pluggin that can show what stroke/click you've done. its kinda hard to follow from us who really a beginner who never see blender before >
Anyone stuck at 6:37 - start a new file and click "2D animation", that's (as far as I can tell, having just learnt this myself) how to get into "grease pencil" mode.
Went and looked at another tutorial and edited my comment to reflect the appropriate information. Thanks for replying though, hope youtube lyfe ain't too stressful.
Yup. Another way that can be used. I didn't want to get heavily into all the effects you can use. Clearly you've found this effect useful. Go forth and use it. 😀
Hi there great tutorial. Thank you for going in to detail :) For some reason though my grease pencil properties tab doesn't appear when I add a grease pencil. Instead the effects properties tab appears. If anyone can help me with this that would be great. Thanks :)
Check your view menu? You should have tool selections which you can toggle on/off. I'm away right now, but one of them will make this extra tool shelf visible.
Short Answer: There isn't one, and no. Longer Answer: Why would you want to? The point isn't to copy stroke for stroke, the point is to learn the technique, then go draw your own characters. Besides, grease pencil now is very different to when this was released. I might do an update at some point, but I am currently on a three month contract, sorry. :(
Great video. Is there a way to lock the view so that you can pan around the drawing in Orthographic view without accidentally turning the view to Perspective?
@@PCaggegi Thank you for the reply. However, that's not the answer I'm looking for. To be more clear I mean to pan around similar to how one would in Photoshop, in the X and Z axis.
NUMPAD 1 = Front view; NUMPAD 3 = side; NUMPAD 7 = Top. 4 and 6 rotate view left and right incrementally; 2 and 8 rotate up and down. You can keep the view in orthographic while doing this.
@@emeraldeelentertainment8988 so wait - are you wanting this image to stay in the background while you rotate your view? The simple answer is "no". You want a background image for that.
I can't even find a grease pencil :( Blenders interface is truly too complicated. The great free app, but not user-friendly even in 2.82 version. Anyway, the tutorial looks nice, I would love to follow, but stack just at the first step... I see on your menu on the right side there is a pencil, it is not on my menu. Sad.
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This is probably one the best tutorials I’ve seen lately. Nice and calm pacing and very well explained which makes it easy to understand and not to get frustrated during learning. Thank you, mate!
One of the best, detailed tutorial for Blender Grease Pencil I've seen for 2.8. You should change the title to "Detailed Introduction To Grease Pencil - Showcase: Character Turnaround" or something like this :-)
Same here. I think I have watched just about every tutorial on Grease Pencil on You Tube there is, and this one is the most informative and straight forward.
this is probably the best masterclass of grease pencil i've ever seen. Clear and easy to give a try. really well done.
Been learning GP for a few weeks now. This gem filled in the remaining holes. Thanks a million!
Brilliantly straightforward 'how to' video for the new Blender grease pencil.
amazing you are genius no one had tutorial like this before on grease pencil
Excellent tutorial. Thanks to you and your patron!
Amazing video and nice techniques. Thank you for making this!
you're a bloody genius! God bless you, brother.
I rarely hit sub and that bell for a youtube video, but you got my sub and bell for this awesome tutorial for grease pencil. Thank you so much.
great stuff! I really need to get into grease pencil more.
Thank you so much for this I just wanted to start sketching out some ideas in Blender 2.8 and this is EXACTLY what i needed. Such a great setup!
Awesome video Paul, cool character design! Love grease pencil!
love the tutorial thanks!
in the grease pencil layers panel underneath the add/remove (-+) button you have a dropdown menu, one of the options is "Autolock Inactive Layers" , imho its a great function to avoid unintentional errors
Thanks for the tutorial. Im just getting back into Blender because of the grease pencil and the way that you present everything making following along outstanding. Thanks again
Thank you for sharing some wonderful details like 'Mask layer'.
Mate! Totally awesome run down! This is exactly what I've been trying to figure out a workflow for. JMC lecturers teaching lecturers (well...ex-lecturer) haha!
Awesome Tutorial, so good explained. Thank you very much.
Nice tutorial. Thank you. I would love to see a follow-up with rigging, animation and export to Unity.
Thanks Alex. I'm afraid that won't be from me! I know nothing about Unity, sorry.
You are a godsend, sir.
Very Nice. Im not ready for this tool yet. looks complex.
hey i find your tutorial very helpful and you explain very clear thanks
I learned a lot, thank you.
Great tip on the mirror mod.!
Very good tute! thumbs up!!
Great tutorial, thank you
Thanks for this great tutorial
This is great! thank you!
Just what I needed.
Excellent.
This was very helpful. thank you
noted in 2.81a at least, the y offset at 8:13 can be set to 5 (instead of some wonky factor)
Thank you for the information.
Thank You sir
Good stuff Paul!
Awesome stuff, thank you!!!
Amazing stuff!
You are awesome
Nice tutorial i learn a lot thanks and How can i use in grease pencil. Front and back side of character while animating and should i rig also front view and side view for puppet animation thanks again !!
Awesome ..thank you so much
very well explained Paul. when i try to draw the fill outline Im facing a issue when fills overlap they get darker at the overlap
ah can you do some animation as well i have been really lazy with it but not gonna lie grease pencil makes blender much more fun than it was.
Sorry I'm not a very good animator.
@@PCaggegi oh no i had trouble with the interface i guess i can find some tutorials on dopesheet and how to inbetween etc.would have been fun from you though. ♥️
Very cool!
awesome
Ye but how do you rig so you can change bodyparts while animating (hands expecially with functional fingers)
But you didnt show the full turn around (360 degrees animation) of the character. Did i read your video wrong?
Why would I? I drew the angles which you would need to model all sides of a character. This is a grease pencil tutorial. Not a modelling one. The modelling part - that's up to you. :)
Can you please make a video where you actually show them connected in rotation? I would like to rig a full turnaround for animation.
I am new to Blender/Grease Pencil and I need help. Please read. Let's say I draw an apple in my "RED" file. Then I draw a banana in my "YELLOW" file. Now, I want to move everything into my "GROCERIES" file. So in "RED" I can copy paste, and I can even use Duplicate. But, moving between files doesn't work at all. How do I consolidate my drawings into one file? Or is this a Blender thing, where every new file needs new drawings? Like should I have a mega file of all my drawings/animations?
I thought ya were gonna turn around the character from backside to front side animation, like in animate cc/flash. Animate cc gives much more flexibility than blender in 2d. Blender is perfect for 3d.probably I understood the title wrong.
I think thats a technical term miss understoodment. Turn around is what this form of character concept is called as for having to explain the design of the character in development. What you had in mind by reading the title I would call a turntable presentation of whatever object in whatever form (greasepencil, mesh). Or in the olden days it would just shrunken in x direction and expanded to look like it turns. Well then it just worked for coins or cards.
thanks for this, Paul! it's a great intro to the new Grease Pencil, as well as useful for the character turnaround.
i was a bit puzzled at 12:56 - did you import the materials from the blend file you kindly supply on patreon?
also, at 6:40 it's important to realise that there has been a switch to Draw mode from Object (you may have mentioned it, but there is a cut there).
one final thing i noticed that even with Load UI switched on, blender doesn't remember the 3D View object display method, so it always has to be switched to Render. small point, but it can be disconcerting and made me think at first that the World colour needed tweaking.
Hey Julian! Yes I imported the materials from another file to save time. I outlined how you can make your own, but you can absolutely append these same materials from the free file available. They're just my digital version of a greyscale set.
Yup, the world setting is something I wrangled with. It's best to be in rendered view, and have your world color setting on a light color.
@@PCaggegi perfect! i have appended your materials and now can carry on, which is great. part of the problem is that when learning something as complex as blender i find it is important to follow exactly what the tutor says, and in this case the word was 'import', which is where i got stuck since i had never appended materials before, and don't know enough about it. with step frame analysis i now see that you land on Append for three frames (then there is a cut), not import, but i missed that before.
anyway, it looks like one can append anything from a blender file (and probably link to anything too). i shall now make sure i get a deeper understanding of appending (and linking)!
@@PCaggegi the world setting and rendered view are both good ideas, the only problem for someone unused to working in rendered mode and who uses the most up-to-date nightly build is that i have to save and re-open afresh each day, so if a setting isn't saved in the file metadata, then it won't show up when i reopen it. i don't see why the 3D View display method shouldn't be in the file metadata, but it doesn't seem to be. with the rise of Eevee, i think this should be captured in the file. maybe it will be possible to write an add-on that will do this.
Could you do a video a bit more in depth with the filling? It tends to be a bit wonky and there isn't a lot of good coverage for using it well (fill tool and other methods) - especially with several colors etc and common pitfalls (fills covering other strokes).
Hi Charles, I am planning on revisiting the Grease Pencil in a future tutorial. I currently have a backlog to get through for the next couple of months, so hopefully by that time, 2.80 official will be released, and I can tackle a more in-depth look on the updated tools. It does help to think of this like vector painting vs bitmap painting. There are some amazing artists who handle this tool better than I ever could, but I am willing to give it a go!
Excellent video my question is can I import SVG in the grease pencil and editing?
can you turn on the pluggin that can show what stroke/click you've done. its kinda hard to follow from us who really a beginner who never see blender before >
Anyone stuck at 6:37 - start a new file and click "2D animation", that's (as far as I can tell, having just learnt this myself) how to get into "grease pencil" mode.
There's an updated version. Link should be in the description.
Went and looked at another tutorial and edited my comment to reflect the appropriate information. Thanks for replying though, hope youtube lyfe ain't too stressful.
Why not use text and add returns then use line space so you can adjust the leading
That works too! There are many ways.
@@PCaggegi Yep i added this nice comic font www.fontsmarket.com/font-download/burbank-big-condensed-bold
PS isnt there an effect actually for that last part. I believe i have seen a video where that hightlight effect happens automatically
It was RIM effect which i meant. Here's quick preview, www.dropbox.com/s/6v5tq5g6qozywtl/rim-effect.png?raw=1
Yup. Another way that can be used. I didn't want to get heavily into all the effects you can use. Clearly you've found this effect useful. Go forth and use it. 😀
Hi there great tutorial. Thank you for going in to detail :) For some reason though my grease pencil properties tab doesn't appear when I add a grease pencil. Instead the effects properties tab appears. If anyone can help me with this that would be great. Thanks :)
Check the updated tutorial. It's linked in the notes. Alot of the tools have changed recently, and it could help you.
Paul O Caggegi Thank you
One problem I'm having is I don't have that tool bar beneath "File, Edit, Render, Windows and Help" how do I get that to show up?
Check your view menu? You should have tool selections which you can toggle on/off. I'm away right now, but one of them will make this extra tool shelf visible.
Where is the full normal speed tutorial, Can I buy it?
Short Answer: There isn't one, and no.
Longer Answer: Why would you want to? The point isn't to copy stroke for stroke, the point is to learn the technique, then go draw your own characters. Besides, grease pencil now is very different to when this was released. I might do an update at some point, but I am currently on a three month contract, sorry. :(
Great video. Is there a way to lock the view so that you can pan around the drawing in Orthographic view without accidentally turning the view to Perspective?
Toggle Numpad 5?
@@PCaggegi Thank you for the reply. However, that's not the answer I'm looking for. To be more clear I mean to pan around similar to how one would in Photoshop, in the X and Z axis.
NUMPAD 1 = Front view; NUMPAD 3 = side; NUMPAD 7 = Top. 4 and 6 rotate view left and right incrementally; 2 and 8 rotate up and down. You can keep the view in orthographic while doing this.
@@PCaggegi Will it keep it locked in whichever view I'm in when using the middle mouse button to pan? Without the usage of the shift key?
@@emeraldeelentertainment8988 so wait - are you wanting this image to stay in the background while you rotate your view? The simple answer is "no". You want a background image for that.
2:36 right-click?
;)
yes now it´s possible
I can't even find a grease pencil :( Blenders interface is truly too complicated. The great free app, but not user-friendly even in 2.82 version.
Anyway, the tutorial looks nice, I would love to follow, but stack just at the first step... I see on your menu on the right side there is a pencil, it is not on my menu. Sad.