Giving Blender and Grease Pencil another try

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I tried remaking my channel intro using free software such as Blender.
My first Blender + Grease Pencil impressions:
• So I finally tried Ble...
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@AmyMist Год назад

It’s funny, the progress of the intros almost feel a little bit like growth of the character as well. Like he’s gained more and more confidence as time goes on.

@littlecurrybread Год назад

I love that

@WilczycaCzarownica Год назад

Yeah. I thinked the same when I looked at those intros.

@toastedprocastinator Год назад

@tryarie1970 Год назад

And the artworks on the board are improved too, such precious little details~

@healthybutgotOBCD Год назад

Its like a reflection of the artist itself its very cuteee

@E.M.A Год назад

Blenders grease pencil is still relatively new, the thing is blender is first a 3d program but has many different parts of editing programs that are getting better with updates. I did notice you were using a slightly older version of blender, and while I understand the need to stay in a version to help flow... but there have been quite a few updates since 2.9 But yeah there are definitely some quality of life issues still present with feeling a bit wonky at times.... just updates are something to keep up on

@E.M.A Год назад

Oooh also some you may like to know the composistor will update in real time with the upcoming 3.3 update

@E.M.A Год назад

And cycles x in the newer version of blender will speed up your render time in the cycles render engine if you have a compatible gpu but that is a setting you have to fiddle with

@jowiemonster Год назад

If you check the freestyle setting in blender you can give the 3d objects a 2d outline and there's is also a very simple toon shader.

@E.M.A Год назад

@@jowiemonster yeah though to be honest with how those look I feel he'd get better results just by drawing in grease pencil what he wants it to look like

@Tutorial7a Год назад

@@E.M.A I didn’t think that was going to be in 3.3. There’s already feature-lock, so probably not until the next one if I’m not mistaken.

@BagelCollector Год назад

Quick tip: you can fill in multiple frames at once if you select them and then bucket

@MrCassidyArt Год назад

You serious? I gotta try this. Thanks for the tip! :o

@BBWahoo Год назад

We need more quick tips like this

@dennisbuyse258 Год назад

@@BBWahoo If you are interested in blender quick tips in general then the "Blender Secrets" channel is a rich source

@NeroMai Год назад

That alone might make me hop over to Blender entirely

@nou8474 Год назад

WHa WHA???

@saniancreations Год назад

I like this version better than the previous one, but the one thing that bugs me a little is the window. You can see that it's just a thin surface rather than a wall with actual thickness. Other than that, this is an improvement.

@FractalParadox Год назад

Add modifier > solidify

@Pa_amb_tomaquet Год назад

The lines were transparent-ish in 12:58 because the strength (the opacity of the line) should be set to 1 in order to be fully black. For some reason it is set on 0.6 by default every time you open a project, which you can solve by sliding the “strength” bar all the way to the right (the blue in the top center, next to “size” and to the pressure activator).

@derposaurus_art Год назад

you can also save a blend file as a startfile, so you set up everything and never have to do it again!

@esteban-iriarte-animation Год назад

All versions are cool in their own way. But personally, I like this version the most. Mostly because I like the updated look of Bon Bon, but the 3D background and camera work is also quite charming. Love it! Thanks for sharing the process and your thoughts man.

@Dantti Год назад

Grease Pencil can be intimidating at first, but it is a really great tool once you learn and understand all the possibilities it offers for absolutely free! Mixing 2D with 3D is the dream 🥰

@A_Raptr Год назад

the grease guru himself makes an appearance

@rob679 Год назад

To mitigate the '3d look' you could draw Grease Pencil outlines on the objects themselves, there is an option that places the stroke on top of the object surface

@relicofcrows Год назад

You can also change edges to "freestyle edges" under edge in edit mode. Then for the render check "freestyle". There are many settings for the contours it adds! I think grease pencil in blender is pretty cool, but I'm coming to explore 2D animation from being a 3D sculptor and using Zbrush all the time. GP may seem similar to f2f or tweened animation on the surface and kinda seems lacking as a "classic" animation tool but I think you begin to see it's also very different with different abilities when you knew the 3D features of Blender! Sort of like Cintiq : Paper. Feels similar, but is a very different tool

@comajuice Год назад

or if you do wanna make a shader, making a cartoon shader isnt too hard in blender, giving it outlines

@harvochive Год назад

I remember you drawing this live and I was shocked by your ability to draw and speak to us at the same time.

@rockon8174 Год назад

See Aaron Blaise.

@harvochive Год назад

@@rockon8174 been to his stream, too. Very educational; especially on animals and nature.

@SandunLabs Год назад

Aaron Blais is a ledgend bro...

@pennylavendar6362 Год назад

I hope they continue to improve the drawing tool, its the only thing holding the program back for me personally. A Fox In Space had a workaround where he made a script that turns his grease pencil objects into png planes so that they can cast shadows and receive lights if you look him up.

@ZalvaTionZ Год назад

Might be wrong, but the Eevee rewrite should have better support for grease pencil.

@natburnett5561 Год назад

Woahh thats insanr

@Charely1925 Год назад

Fun fact. If you export your grease pencil animation as an image sequence, you can re-import it as an image sequence on a plane and then it will cast shadows. But I love seeing you experiment more with blender.

@maurits_valk Год назад

You can always animate in any program you want. Export it as a PNG sequence with a transparent background. Then import it into Blender through an Images as Planes 'Animated Sequence'. This will give place your animation on a plane mesh you can move in your 3D scene. Also be sure to use the alpha versions of Blender which usually has GP updates that improve performances (ie 3.3 right now).

@Yassir.A.P. Год назад

He has exactly done that when he combined it with the photoscanned 3d objects with his phone. A video around September 2021

@MrBongers Год назад

22:16 _"... I was also learning more about TVPaint and I found some great features in that program that I'd never used before"_ I would like to hear more about your discoveries in TVPaint.

@lokeyartist Год назад

Mult select makes filling colors a lot faster

@Namivi Год назад

the 2022 version looks amazing!! just one thing... the window. PLEASE extrude the wall or give it a solidify modifier 😂 i really believe this would boost the look of the whole scene a lot, because right now you can see it's just a thin surface and it feels off. But besides that it's truly beautiful

@dugoo3405 Год назад

Aw I love the idea of adding more stuff to the room as memories later on. I love this version, never stop improving just because people miss the past. Nostalgia will do that to anyone.

@garbagedumpster8059 Год назад

welcome to the blender community we apricate your contributions to the program and the devs are great people, rest assured grease pencil will keep getting better and better

@DMitsukirules Год назад

I like this! I think it looks great. I will say, to "finish it off" you could take a render of the 3d scene, paint over it, and project the textures you painted onto it (or add them "properly"). That and maybe reduce the strength of the lights a little. All and all it looks great. 3D illustrated style backgrounds in blender is something I've done personal research on, but I haven't started making RU-vid videos or anything about it. Maybe I should.

@thegeekclub8810 Год назад

I’d watch videos about 3D illustration style in Blender!

@0ia Год назад

I like the 2d animation of the latest most, and the 3d is nice though the plug outside the window grabs my attention with the warm/cool contrast and value more than I think it deserves. Volumetric fog would be cool

@catke590 Год назад

"Now I want the outside to be a just a bit more interesting, maybe add a building there, so I just modelled a giant butt plug sitting by the mountains..." That's genius.

@KittAnimations Год назад

i absolutely adore the new intro, ive recently watched your content about improving my animation, i never got used to the 2016 one, the 2022 one felt so alive and full of joy, also love the style it came out

@iridescentlytey4933 Год назад

It’s so cool to see your growth! I love that

@AScribblingTurtle Год назад

Got to say. This turned out super well. Love the Idea of the Room evolving over time. Don't worry to much about what people say. There will always be someone who will tell you that "This is garbage because it's not all hand drawn, bla, bla ...". I think it's cool and your 3D background is well made. The Blender compositor is super useful even if you just want to compose together different image sequences. (Just drag them from your file-explorer into the compositor view and set them from "Single Image" to "Image-Sequence") The best thing, most settings of almost every node in the compositor can also be animated with keyframes. That is powerful stuff. Got to stop myself or I'll keep rambling about how much fun this thing is.

@DiggoryJiggory Год назад

I absolutely loved watching this and hearing you talk about your process, great video

@TheZandrys Год назад

I LOVE IT. The new intro is amazing 🔥

@Han_Moz Год назад

this was super fun to watch tbh, and i learnt a lot! ive seen your work on twitter when it went viral, but i never seen your intros until now, i have to say that for me the newest one takes the cake! the animation is super smooth, it’s so fun and lively, and it’s just lovely to see how much you improved over the years, HUGE IMPROVEMENT

@admeliora6226 Год назад

its very cute, love the idea of the room changing over time

@OnLowBattery Год назад

So, for the rendering options. A much quicker way to do it is to go into the outliner (at the top right) and click the "Filter" button (looks like a funnel). There's an option for "Restriction Toggles". This allows you to have more options in the outliner other than the eyeball. If you click the camera that gives the ability to toggle rendering,

@khalidhamed2426 Год назад

13:48 in the outline window on the top right, you can click on the filter icon and toggle the camera looking thing. it'll appear next to the eye and will enable / disable the object from appearing in renders. a bit faster than digging through the object settings. 👍 great video btw

@artsyomni Год назад

Was looking for this comment. Glad it's been pointed out.

@Ilikespace403 Год назад

I just stumbled on your channel and in both versions your intro is the cutest thing ever.

@llynhunter Год назад

So stoked you did this! I've just started learning Blender, and this is great encouragement!

Год назад

I thought is was nice to see all the different styles at the end and all three are good, it will be interesting to see the next update when you have even more experience and there will be new tools to use. Good job.

@Thollis1987 Год назад

That's an adorable new into!

@heiski9052 Год назад

This was just amazing, its just represents how you have evolved as artist and its looking nice.

@artisticdreamer2429 Год назад

It's cool watching the growing going on in each intro.

@espinafreAzul Год назад

You did a great work, nice to see how much you did in a different field.

@BrinnTDSowo Год назад

I REALLY LOVE YOUR ANIMATIONS So glad to see your improvement's

@ryntrinity Год назад

I Really love this new version, and the idea of adding new thins to the background as you acomplish things is Soo cool! Like the intro isn't like just a video, but a living breathing character changing and evolving with time, it's awesome! and the 2D+3D is a nice representation of the channel. I think the super shinyness of the tin-can was a bit much in some parts tho The little spin-junp is soo cute btw < 33

@PraxisVisuals Год назад

Your animations look so solid! Love the art styles!

@PeterSkye Год назад

It's great you tried Graase Pencil. I personally couldn't recommend any better tool when it comes to merging hand-drawn animation and 3D. Of course it has its limitations, but also offers soo many advantages and shortcuts compared to classic non vector software.

@TheTimN8er Год назад

I’m just learning blender and this video is very inspiring and the result is charming

@misterprickly Год назад

I love how your style has evolved over the years!

@purpleriver3199 Год назад

It looks amazing! Love your style

@ilavalolipop Год назад

Amazing work 😄 Such a sweet and playful animation! It looks great.

@WAFFURUOI Год назад

I'm just glad your giving blender another chance!

@Pikero24 Год назад

The quality is definitely higher in some aspects but the composition is better in the existing one I think. especially with the postfx the window is taking more attention away than the animation work

@gauthierruberti8065 Год назад

The final result is amazing!

@SpoonyBard88 Год назад

I just stumbled on this video from a mini painting tutorial, and I just wanted to leave a comment saying you seem incredibly talented and that intro is very sweet. Anyway, have a nice day.

@the-gas-station Год назад

I'm so glad I found string bing again! It's been since old-old tumblr... I'm so happy to see you're still animating and drawing and having fun!

@suburbanhomestead Год назад

This is the first time I see your channel, so I think I have not been influenced by being used to the previous animations. First of all thank you so much for doing this video showing what is possible with a free program. Your first intro had a special charm to it that made it great for me. The spare treatment of the background was awesome and even the shy movement of the character was endearing. Of course your new character animation is wonderful and much more fluid, so I think that was worth it. The 3d background I feel would benefit from a similar hand-drawn treatment to incorporate it more with the character. I also think the symmetrical modeling you had would benefit with the wonkiest you had previously. It just has more of your signature. Nonetheless phenomenal work, and thanks for all the tips.

@DanielRLucero Год назад

The evolving blackboard/Pinboard idea is really cool!

@sophia.z Год назад

It's cool to see the differences between each animation! I really like the look of both 2d and 3d in the latest version

@lilow6356 Год назад

This looks stunning! Beautiful intro

@MichaelHickman3D Год назад

This looks so good!!!

@dinonguyen6199 Год назад

This is adorable! My heart just melted.... Awwww

@majakawalio2631 Год назад

I like the remake you did! I learned Blender a bit and would love to learn Grease Pencil, your video encourages me to try!

@james8616 Год назад

All looks very good, maybe the wall around the window should be a little thicker, seeng the left side of the window from the inside makes it look paper thin (because it is). You also might need to move the walls out to the sides a little bit more, the end of the animation goes past the edge a little bit

@KZesty Год назад

I have no idea how you're doing this stuff, I'm just having a good time watching how nice it looks!

@nahoj.2569 Год назад

it looks really pretty!

@CanalDojogames Год назад

Very great! i think its very important the fact of pen pressure make an mess on grease pencil for an continuous work. Great to see every step you did here.

@wendigo7056 Год назад

Really nice new intro !

@ZeBirdBrain Год назад

Hey Toniko! about the thing you menton in Blender that is great about moving all your layers at once You can do it in Harmony (toon boom) by simply linking your layers together. (Right click: sync layer to x ) So you could have exactly the same thing as the summary key, I think! Hope this helps! :)

@decespugliatorenucleare3780 Год назад

it's gorgeous!

@AnaEdigaryan Год назад

Love all three versions.

@LizardOfOz Год назад

Your video has opened my eyes on how WELL a hand-drawn character can fit in a simplistic 3D environment. I was struggling with making good-looking simplistic 3D characters for my game (making the entire game hand-drawn is a behemoth task for a non-artist), but maybe hand-drawn characters in a 3D world is what I needed all along!

@trulyinfamous Год назад

I love your animation style.

@banana_walter_ Год назад

I LOVE HOW YOUR STYLE HAS EVOLVED

@KatoSano Год назад

Looks very nice, I like the intro from 2016 a little bit more, but the new one is also amazing. :3

@a.j.outlaster1222 3 месяца назад

I don't really know who you are, But your intros back to back warmed my heart...

@Gerz970 Год назад

I love the smile in the second one but the third is definitely overall the best imo.

@Twiddle_things Год назад

Definitely going to try this once I get my grubby artist hands on a better computer! I am an absolute sucker for mixed media, so the thought of being able to combine 2D and 3D brings me unexplainable excitement!

@darkenblade986 Год назад

awesome stuff man. honestly the newest intro is my fav. the second one had an uncanny valley effect with the dog's face for me.

@Shenorai Год назад

I do like the idea of an evolving intro. It's also a cute little way for folks to keep track of the chronological order of your video releases.

@ferzlt Год назад

THANK YOU SIR, YOU ARE FANTASTIC!!

@Suketchi_S Год назад

idk how could anyone _not_ like the new version, there's something about it that's just- 😩💞💞💞 and the character!! I love to see the improvement over the years, and tho even the first one was charming, the new version has so much expression and just overall a prettier style, I love it!!

@Life_vines Год назад

13:46 actually, you can go to your filter settings (the little funnel in the top right corner of the collections screen) and enable a little camera icon which allows your to turn the "veiw as render" on and off. When you activate it, you'll see little cameras next to the eyes in the collections window

@unaninated Год назад

I can totally relate to your feelings about drawing with grease pencil. I'm trying to use blender to make quick animations, by having modeled backgrounds take can be used at multiple angles. But once I get to drawing my characters the I struggle to get the line quality I'd normally get with other software. Still I do like the potential it offers for quick adjustments like you outlined. I hope they continue to improve the drawing tool as there is just so much potential with this software. Also, try look into texture painting, I think that helps with blending the 2D and 3D elements together

@Hirotechnics Год назад

My favorite part is honestly being able to see how your style has changed and matured over the years. It's fascinating.

@ActuallyAFungus Год назад

The new intro is definitely the best one yet!

@Nunican Год назад

Love the character animation of the new one! Also inspiring me to learn more about blender even though the learning curve is steep for me

@KeenanParry Год назад

Hey man great video! I love that you're getting more into Blender. It's my favorite piece of software. I noticed that you had your Cycles engine set to CPU render- that is probably why it took so long to render! If you set your render to GPU instead of CPU it'll be much faster! Good luck!

@TheHumanWolf0 Год назад

Your animations are beautiful.

@chromium7745 Год назад

Holy shit dude! I love this style homie. I never knew you could use 2D animation with blender like this! I really dig it, maybe I’ll try to do something like this.

@JonahHache 8 месяцев назад

your remote controller playback setup is rad!

@69Deez_Nutz69 Год назад

Omg, that cute smiling dog got me hooked!

@adozenfridays Год назад

Love the new intro

@fatalxander Год назад

this makes me happy

@RMAnimations Год назад

I like how you're able to change the bg whenever u want, and can make your intro fit a theme of the video. Kinda like the simpsons intro.

@ArtwithAmarBrisco Год назад

I used this method of proxy modeling for animatics or roughing out animations for scripts. It is simple straight forward and very useful. What matters most is that you learn something and that you like it most more than anyone.

@dudumoser4516 Год назад

Man great video the new opening looks really amazing. Truly. The only thing that i felt didn’t look good was the window. You could add a frame. And some thickness to the wall. And that would just make it all 🤌🤌

@jayreedart Год назад

I love the 2022 version with Blender. The Line Art modifier or the Freestyle on the 3D mesh in the scene would have made it even better!

@inknpaintCW Год назад

This is great! It shows how approachable Blender is. Cycles render settings can be optimized to give you much quicker (and better for your style) renders. Lots of positive stuff in here!

@SanOcelotl Год назад

Looks awesome bro

@SenElric Год назад

The transition of versions, you can see the lil’guy getting more happy 🥺

@10upstudios Год назад

13:45 if you open the filters tab in the outliner (top right, funnel looking thing next to the "new collection" button) you can set it up so you can show/hide objects in render, very handy so you dont have to bother with all the menus

@messbukiyo2004 Год назад

I LOVE IT SO MUUUCHH

@mauriciogastonpirizgonzale5387 Год назад

2D and 3D give different finishes and different sensations, but it is noticeable that this new version has a better and more elaborate animation. Although I really like the detail of the previous version in which when he smiled he shows his huge dog teeth, very much in the Ghibli Studio style, in this new version you made his teeth small to enhance or maintain his adorableness or cuteness all the time... but the large teeth surprise, it is not what you expect, it gives more personality to the work, I don't know, it creates a fun contrast.

@intergalacticspacewizard1966 Год назад

i think it looks great, learning blender is something that i've been meaning to do, i should get around to it

@eeveefennecfox Год назад

so adorable

@abhirutmeherishi5738 Год назад

hey that was awesome! btw you can create dark areas by negative lighting just type in negative values in light intensity by hand. Looking forward to a fully 3d reboot next time :)