Hey Everyone! If you ever wanted to learn Grease Pencil, I just released a course with CG Boost here: www.cgboost.com/courses/master-grease-pencil-in-blender . This course is a lot more thoroughly paced and will walk you through everything you need to know to get started. By the end you'll have created an entire scene. Hope you guys enjoy and thanks for the support!
Graphics history tidbit: The first 'toon shader' was written as a plugin for 3D Studio v4 (the original DOS version), subcontracted for the "Virtual Springfield" 1997 Simpson's game. The entire city of Springfield was modeled in 3D, carefully studying episode after episode, scene by scene. That was my job, I got paid to watch the Simpsons, and build the buildings. It's cool to see how far this type of shading has evolved in 25 years. The developer of the plugin retained ownership of the code and it became the "Cartoon Reyes" mainstream plugin for 3D Studio MAX a few years later. "Non Photorealistic Rendering" developed quickly after that among all the major 3D applications.
@@peterbelanger4094 Very cool story and info, Peter! I hope you were paid well for all that work! Amazing how much cartoon rendering has all progressed since then!
Awesome tutorial !!! Previously I had started a paid course on grease pencil and felt kind of lost. I am 5 minutes into your tutorial and everything makes sense now. Fantastic !!!
Man, Imagine if Unity supported Grease Pencil objects as well. Imagine an entire game with this kind of style of 3D art and animation look, even with other art styles. It would seriously stand out just by how it feels.
@@liguelxi1610 I mean, I've never tried it, but I seriously doubt it given that to my knowledge Blender is the only program in existence that does what Grease Pencil does. I'm pretty sure no other program can do it.
@@kevandram Thank you very much like most of the grease pencil tutorials I see are mostly made using either a graphics or drawing tablet so just seeing you use the mouse alone is amazing. love the tutorial,
@@alexmehler6765 I would say it's different. But not necessarily harder. Every software and workflow have their complications. Nevertheless, practice makes the master.
Great tutorial.. for those following along, I condensed the initial setup: Delete default cube Add grease pencil object (Shift + A > Grease Pencil > Blank) Go into Draw Mode (from dropdown) Go to the Overlays Dropdown - check Grid, 3D Cursor, Canvas In Stroke Placement - use 3D Cursor In Drawing Planes, - set to Front View In object mode, set 3D cursor to world origin Set grease pencil origin to 3d cursor Color Management: - Filmic -> Standard (more accurate colors) - Look -> Medium High Contrast World Properties: - background to pale yellow In grease pencil: - create New Layer; rename to "Walls" - uncheck Use Light In Materials Tab: - create new material; name it "Walls". - I’m making the stroke In front view (Numpad 1) - enter Draw Mode; select Box Tool - set Radius to 35px - uncheck Use Pressure - bump up Strength to 1 Set timeline to the beginning. Keep Auto Keying Button off
this is one of the first tutorials where i feel like i actively understood what was happening without having to rewind a bunch of times :'D great work, man!
hah, I been using blender for years and had no idea you could copy/past colors without actually having to open the color picker. That is awesome! I'm very interested in grease pencil and that was a very clear concise guide, great work
So confident and clear, no pauses or tangents... so very helpful and well-produced. Either this took a zillion takes, or you are supernaturally skilled and fearless. Thank you!
Blender is so damn amazing ! I wonder every day how I was ever stupid enough to use 3DS Max for 20 years. Great, great, tutorial. So much ! to learn in there. Quiet amazing. Thanks for sharing your obviously well-tested techniques.
I'm so mad that youtube has not recommended me to your channel till now! i've been going through grease pencil tutorials but none of them are as easy to understand as yours. Thank you finally for coming into my life sir. I'm now fallen in love with blender again. :)
Grease pencil is astonishingly powerful. Thanks for such a simple and fast-paced tutorial. It gets us past the confusion of remembering what button to press and teaches a nice quick workflow.
Wow! This looks super cool! I never knew it was possible to create something like this in Blender. I learn so much about the software every day and just how powerful it is, and even more so with all of the helpful and fantastic plugins available. Your work looks fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing and showing how this is done! I hope you have a fantastic rest of your week! 😃
To anyone who can't enable a canvas... The canvas overlay (1:13) in Blender 4.0 has been moved to the new dropdown... just to the right of Overlay options :)
WOW this was such a great tutorial, thank you! I have used Blender for projects a few times a year since 2005 or so, and never really looked into the grease pencil. I'm really inspired to play around with it now.
This is incredible! I've never opened up blender in my life but I was mesmerized through this entire video. The end result is so pretty I wanted to see every step of it
I'm not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, but Worthikids has a grease pencil animation tutorial where he draws a character if that might help
WOW I'm really impressed by your tutorials! keep doing them just like this. No explaining on things that don't matter. quick precise and realtime instructions on how to edit, no dithering on useless points. just the right pace. Everyone has a pause button lol
Easily the best guide on this I've seen and I've sat through quite a few, I'm adding this to my documentary playlist. Right away you explained well what grease pencil was, before a clear step by step art tutorial then showing us what the grease pencil could do. I've been trying to gain an understanding of this software prior to using it but now I'm sold*.
This is such a fantastic video. I feel like I learned more from watching this than from all the other grease pencil videos I've seen combined. I had one question if you happen to see this, or if anyone else happens to know. When you right click and have the option to change the active layer and active material (20:18 for example), I was curious about that box. Because when I do the same, I have the option to change the active layer, but NOT the active material like you do. And instead, I have a color wheel at the top of the box. Is there just an option in the settings somewhere that I might need to check or am I missing something super obvious? lol (Edit: I was going to delete this because I got my answer literally a minute after I posted this, right in the video! But in case anyone else ever runs into the same question and doesn't notice the difference in the video, the reason my "right click box" was different was because I was in vertex mode instead of material mode. The section of the video at 21:20 shows what I was talking about!)
I'm convinced that this being recommended to me is a sign for me to try Grease Pencil again. I've had it for a few months, but I was so overwhelmed trying to figure out the features that I got frustrated and gave up. Now I can't wait to sit down at my desk and try again. Thank you so much
OMG... This is so inspirational! I'm not a full time artist, but have played with Blendar and I heard that Grease Pencil was a great tool, but I hadn't seen a demo that showed how it could be used for this kind of work. Thanks!
While rotating my viewport I could see right through the building I created,I could see the windows through the roof.did I do something wrong? Great video... I've been using blender over 3 years now..and still learning to improve myself
Español Inglés In this video tutorial I have learned a lot, but it is still an edited video. the boy barely moves the drawing, and when he does, he moves it in view from the front or from the side. Also, if you notice, it doesn't finish the four sides of the house, so you don't see the lines on the back walls, for when I put the drawing in perspective... The program has a powerful tool, but it still has a lot left to improve. And... I think the boy is praised a lot, just by watching the tutorial, barely turning on the computer... In any case, I'm still learning a lot from the program, which I didn't know before... and I'm still learning from people
Amazing video! I want you to know I followed this step by step , deviating from the original design a little I created a scrap metal shop! I went from- "ahh what's this?" to " Wow, I did that?" Thank you for doing this tutorial! Having never used blender before other than for simple drawings in 2D, I found you to be very informative with your directions. Very easy to follow. I appreciate you and hope you do more tutorial builds like this in the future, breaking down every step and how to go from one to another. Thanks Again! Hope you have a great day!
Hi Kevan thanks so much for this awesome tutorial. I followed the steps as best I could, but I seem to be having an issue with seeing right through my building. If I look at a lower level I can see the lines of the top building wall as well as the roof. And if I switch to view from the other side I can see the second wall, windows, planters etc. My door, windows and bakery sign seem to be a lot more solid, its mostly the walls themselves. I'd appreciate any help as I am planning to create a grease pencil project for work and currently studying it through your tutorials and others. Thanks a bunch!
Hey. I don’t know if you’ve already solved this issue. If not, or if anyone else is reading this, 1. be sure the respective grease pencil object is selected, 2. go to the Object Data tab in the properties window, 3. open the Strokes drop-down menu. Next to Stroke Depth Order you’ll see 2D Layers is selected by default, 4. open the drop-down and select 3D Location instead. This will fix the issue.
Hey Monii, sorry for the late reply. This is a topic I didn't go into much detail here, but this tutorial was made with the Stroke Depth Order set to 2D Layers. As Spencer mentioned, you can find this in the Object Data Properties Tab. This means that the strokes display according to the order in the Layers Panels. The downside is that our camera view is limited in how much we can rotate before our strokes display brokenly which is why the backside of the bakery isn't closed. A solution to achieving a full 360 view can be to switch the Stroke Depth Order to 3D Location. However, if your strokes are overlapping or your materials have both fills and strokes toggled, they'll look like they're glitching out. A more appropriate solution would be to use a combination of meshes and grease pencil elements so that the meshes can be a barrier for visibility. I hope this helps!
Awesome tutorial - I seem to be stuck at around 21:15 - and I think it might be a bug? When I try to click between the material and vertex color it actually colors on the canvas behind the button. When I draw with the leaves brush selected it just draws black - even if the color is set to green. Unsure if there's something I did wrong of if it's bugging. EDIT: I figured out why it was drawing behind - it's because the 'pin' was pressed - when I unpinned it I was able to switch between vertex paint and material - however, my brush still draws as black and doesn't take the 'leaves' brush texture or color into account. EDIT EDIT: The reason the brush was drawing as a 'black' texture rather than the 'leaves' was because I was in SOLID mode rather than RENDER PREVIEW mode.
Hi, how do i get my rectangles to accurately line up with one another when i draw them? They seem to be a little offset from the cursor when i make them
You can go into Edit Mode and toggle "Snap" at the top (looks like a magnet icon). Then, you can make sure your strokes align with each other. You can hold down shift or ctrl for more precision. Hope that helps!
@@kevandram Yeah, thanks. I've learnt a lot more about blender compared to when i posted the comment. I'm gonna have a round 2 at this project, see if i can complete it
Cool video , this just felt like mesh modelling with extra steps initially. But towards the end is where i saw the real power of grease pencil, using special stroke brushes to add super quick details is game changing for me.
There we go! This is exactly the type of video I was looking for. I hesitated to click on this video before, because it looked far too advanced. But in actuality, you demonstrated exactly what I needed. Thank you!
You really nailed it! I learned so much about managing layers, materials, stroke placement and many more small details. Grease pencil isn't so confusing anymore.
This is so cute! I've scarcely touched the grease pencil. By chance, I just happened bust it out today so I could quickly sketch some ideas for a 3D model. I gave up pretty quickly because I'm just faster at modeling, but this video gave me a lot more information and encouraged me to give it another chance on the next project (and is easily the most thorough video I've seen on the grease pencil). Cheers!
Thank you so much! It's definitely a tool that takes a bit to get used to. But once you get the hang of stroke place/drawing planes, it can be a really great tool. Good luck!
This is awesome - I'm confused by the concept of things that are further back in the grid space appearing through things closer in space based on their order in the layers tab, but I'm sure it'll make more sense with use. Thanks!
Español Inglés In this video tutorial I have learned a lot, but it is still an edited video. the boy barely moves the drawing, and when he does, he moves it in view from the front or from the side. Also, if you notice, it doesn't finish the four sides of the house, so you don't see the lines on the back walls, for when I put the drawing in perspective... The program has a powerful tool, but it still has a lot left to improve. And... I think the boy is praised a lot, just by watching the tutorial, barely turning on the computer... In any case, I'm still learning a lot from the program, which I didn't know before... and I'm still learning from people
oh boy.. i thought this would be a nice quick intro into grease pencils :D maybe 4hrs later i completed it. Thanks for the video! learned a lot from this :)
Thank you so much for the detailed tutorial! Truly appreciate the effort you put in your videos🙏 just a small question, please. The background colour is always grey(it's just not changing), although I've followed every step.. I'm not sure what's the problem🥲 would really appreciate it if you could suggest any solutions 🙇♀️ thanks again for the great video!
This is so timely. I was trying to wrap mu mind around using this two weeks ago and just went back to my drawing program in disgust. Powerful software is great...if you know how to use it! Glad for some easy follow guidance.
1:36 is it me? or did you forget about teaching to keep AutoKeying turned on in order to start drawing? (keyframe recording button at the Timeline Panel) Excellent tutorial! Thanks
Thanks for watching! I address this later, but I don’t have auto keying on because I already have a keyframe to draw on. Depending on where you have the playhead, if you bring in a new grease pencil object, one is automatically created. You will only need auto keying on if you want to create new key frames other than the one you’re already drawing on. Hope that helps!
Thank you! I made it to the end. My bakery is not as beautiful as yours, but it was really worthy to learn these tools from your tutorial! It helped a lot!
@@kevandram It sure was! I learned a lot about Grease Pencil. This is my result: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_mAqGVFNqAI.html ("Padaria do Joaquim" means "Joaquim's Bakery" in Brazilian Portuguese)
I have absolutely no artistic ability when it comes to drawing/painting/etc. I have no clue how to use Blender. This video was so informative and cool I had to watch it all!
I never knew you could do this on Blender. It kinda remind me of those things where you cut out paper pieces and stick them together to build something.
wow, i canty believe how beautifully done this is! how you did it! its made me think of the dream house i wanted (im not really the type of guy to want something grand like a house or a car) but this is just so beautiful!~ and thank you for the tutorial!
Does anyone have any ideas on how to properly render grease pencil? Mine always end up looking such poor quality and I’ve tried all the settings in the output menu 😫 Also thanks for your videos! They’re so useful 👌
