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Learn Grease Pencil in Blender - 2D Animation and Storyboard - English

sociamix via YouTube

Overview

This course teaches 2D animators and storyboard artists how to use the grease pencil feature in Blender 2.82. By the end of the course, students will be able to create animations, storyboards, and apply various modifiers to their drawings. The course covers topics such as drawing tools, animation techniques, inking, coloring, adding modifiers, creating a parallax effect, and exporting files. The teaching method includes practical demonstrations and step-by-step instructions.

Syllabus

introduction
how to use blender with a tablet
move the 3D cursor and spawn a grease pencil object
enter drawing mode
strokes projection modes
show the grid representing the plane where we draw
erase everything
change stroke data
---- layers
---- edit stroke material stroke and fill color
use edit mode on strokes
use object mode on strokes
edit mode shortcuts
sculpt mode
drawing tools
---- eraser tool
---- fill tool
reproject all strokes on a plane flatten the grease pencil object
what's in the animation file template
---- world background
---- camera
---- default stroke
---- materials
---- brushes
---- timeline and dopesheet
simple animation
sketch
---- setup for the sketch
---- add keyframe with onion skin
---- make inbetween
---- use edit mode practically
---- copy some content of a frame to another
---- use sclupt mode practically
---- overwrite a frame with another
---- change the animation duration
---- scale time between keyframes
---- move multiple keyframe at once
inking
---- setup for the inking
---- use predefined shapes
---- bezier curves
---- simple bezier curves
---- lines
---- smoothening hand drawn lines
---- cleanup
coloring
---- setup for the coloring
---- filling
---- correct with the sculpting tool
move the pivot point origin point
add modifiers
---- create a cycle
-------- copies and instances
-------- cancel transformation
---- noise modifier
---- thickness modifier
---- smothness modifier
---- tint modifier
---- offset by keyframe
parallax effect
move the camera
animate objects
change animation curve
scenes
---- make a new scene
---- video editing
exporting as a usable file
real file

Taught by

sociamix

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