ive alway loves 2d animations on characters, feels so human and lifelike, but ive always preferred 3d models for the scenes and backgrounds. i didnt even know blender had this till i downloaded it, and its like a dream come true
Can the 2D drawings be manipulated as 3d cylinders or spheres in Blender? Like suppose we want a 2D drawing plane in x and y to bulge out from the center in z axis. Could something like that be possible in blender?
turn grease pencil lines into curves and then curves into meshes and yes you can, among other things too but test it out for yourself play with it, all grease pencil objects exist in 3d space, check out the grease pencil team and the blender official documents for GP as they are being done by that team and there are examples on blender cloud!
Would you recommend a lenova laptop for animation and graphic design students who will use programs such as Adobe, Illustrator, in design, 3ds max, blender, phtoshop? The laptop model :lenovo 82d4002 mtx ideapad creator 5
Not sure but any computer with 16 gb ram and a dedicated graphics card (gpu) and an ssd not hdd . Will be perfect for graphic designers and very powerful .
Blender is build with everything, evrything is inside blender. Architecture, Sculping, Render, Animation in 3d, animation in 2d. Organic shapes. Damnn this software is heavy that you don't know where to start but is for free.
@AntiangelRaphael Well define audio editor. If you mean like slight audio editing then kinda. If not then no, 2.8+ doesnt have that. I hope they build a completly new Audio editor for blender that can work with physics engine.
It's insane that we have these tools essentially for free. This is great for artists that can't afford established 2D animation programs like adobe animate.
@@cheesepop7175 I'm very interested to know why you think that. I don't have an oppositional view, I simply would love to hear more about your point of view, if you have the time to reply or point me to certain links. Thanks!
Yes is subjective to your type of work. is Blender good for blockbluster VFX or AAA game cinematics? then the answer is NO..........Blender is more of a generalist tool so it'll always lack the polish & professionalism that you find in a dedicated software.
@Static Ball LMAO you think that's impressive you Blender kids are so predictable the same examples are used over & over again ...Andrew's video is talking about static images for archviz...etc which is completely different than what i am talking about... This is what i am talking about which Blender can't even handle 10% of it :) 100 of udims, thousands of blendeshapes, highres displacement/wrinkle maps in the viewport, complex rig setup, GPU accelerated skinning, highend simulations...etc Watch and learn! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SlRvgJpssEM.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ja6Jhmyw3fs.html
@@samuel-ds2wk They're not born with it no but people who are really good at something like this often have more determination to get good at it, get bored of it slower, have more patience and enjoyment for doing it and more perseverance for getting better at it than others, they didn't teach them selves that or get it through being smart or not lazy, it's just how their personality ended up, but obviously practice is what makes the most difference
Wouldve been nice to have actual names in the video clips used, so people could find those at a glance. Jama has his videos already stamped by himself so his stands out, but others are who knows where from. Otherwise good work on the summary video.
Studios and professionals aren't starting to switch to Blender because it's free. If that was the case they would have adopted it years ago. They are starting to switch now because Blender is actually really good.
Thank you for the great video. I haven't seen any timestamps in the comments yet, so 0:00 intro 0:25 blender 2d animation projects 1:51 the process of 2d animation 2:58 learning curve/difficulty 3:37 grease pencil features 5:08 why the grease pensil is important 7:21 blender is changing how 2d animators work 8:19 grease pensil in vr 9:01 blender compared to other 2d animation software
**PLEASE** list the sources you used for your video footage. There's lots of creative stuff in there and I think it's against the creators you're not crediting them! Seriously! I want to know what this stuff is!
@@iexistyes_ Do you see tags? What made me wonder is the video at 0:20 . I wanted to find out what that was, but then I realized a lot of the video may be uncredited as I kept watching.
@@tehEngineer3 That is Hilda on Netflix. I think it was a mistake to include it in this video because Hilda is actually made with ToonBoom Harmony, not Blender. Also I really encourage you go check out Hilda. It's a really awesome, super cozy and wholesome show. 10/10, one of the best things on Netflix right now.
The biggest issue with Blender Grease Pencil is that it lacks a Symbol like Adobe Animate or OpenToonz. If you have a drawing or series of frames that you want to reuse over and over in different parts of your animation, there's no way to store that into a library, then drag and drop it onto your canvas as you please. It's much needed and would make things perfect!
you can do that using time Offset modifier but it can only store grease pencil keyframes , it still can't store object keyframes like opacity, color and others things .
@@december1147 time offset is kind of anoying in the sense that it just keeps going, but you can use objects to control the values, I believe. It´s a bit involved and I agree, we need the ease of use of seperate timelines in the main timeline that we have in say animate. But animate isn´t without it´s flaws in that department..
If blender continues in the direction it's going I can really see it becoming an industry standard for 2d animation; it's progress in just a few years has been simply incredible.
Blender is open source, which means that enthusiasts can contribute and improve the software without having to worry about deadlines, budgets etc. On top of that, it's driven by a foundation whose sole purpose is to produce something great, not something that sells. This is why Blender wins; it's allowed to.
Not that I’m gonna try (I haven’t even mastered Blender with 3D modelling in general), but is it possible to recreate The Amazing World of Gumball in Blender?
2D art and animation has always been my strength since Adobe Animate was Macromedia Flash. But finding something with the same flexible as Animate has been difficult. I also want to get better at 3D. Combining both in ways we haven't seen since late 90s and early 2000s would be a dream. It's both surprising and not that Grease Pencil seems like it's offering the same amount - or more - flexibility as Adobe Animate. Out of all the art tools I've tried, I was not expecting Blender to be the promising alterative to Adobe Animate.
quote: --------------------- It's both surprising and not that Grease Pencil seems like it's offering the same amount - or more - flexibility as Adobe Animate. Out of all the art tools I've tried, I was not expecting Blender to be the promising alterative to Adobe Animate. ---------------------- Then you are not understanding why Grease Pencil is better and revolutionary: It is understandable, it is new and there has never been anything like it. It is really simple: Adobe animate can't do proper 3D, it can't do raytracing, so you are missing the other half, the things that are super hard to draw, like perspective, building, landscapes and zooming and movement in the landscape, without it looking shitty and unrealistic. If you want to find out, watch the HERO Blender movie and pay especial attention to the end, where they show how they did it. It is basically a camera, freely movable in 3D space filming flat 2D drawn characters in a fully 3D world that can become as real as you like it (with raytracing). In Blender you can combine this really easy, as the 2D drawing is also an object that is living in 3D space and can be filmed (zoomed in, panned etc.) with the camera. Maybe watching the credits of Hero will make it easier to understand. I'm really curious what people will create with it. I'm working on a project myself, a little showcase of what Grease Pencil can do (I think the name is ill chosen)
Hey! I wanna learn blender as another 2D animation I have been using animate since forever and I tried toon boom and it was very hard for me , you are saying that blender won’t give me that horrible transition ?? Because I’m down if that’s the case
I am just starting blender and this video shows me how incredibly powerful and versatile blender is. and it's all open source, it almost brings me to tears.
I'm new to all of this, I'm a music composer and I thought it would be nice if I could make 2D or 3D animation coupled with my tracks. I just discovered your channel, very nicely organized. Nice work ! keep it up :). My question however is about blender and after effect. If you can make 2D animation with blender, what's the point in using after effect ?
Please search and make a video about Blender Foundation's warning e-mails about removing their Blender logos from RU-vid tutorial thumbnails. Some RU-vidrs got this warning mail.
Convincing video. If using Blender for 2D animation doesn't feel like a afterthought to experienced animators, I would agree that 2D+3D animation combinations is the way to go. Thanks for the review!
@@DBT1007 not about animation, it about the tool and a thing it can make, how to set lighting, gravity, physic, what camera can do? How to make model, What this option can do and more stuff, about animation i can make it.
@@Manganization yep some tutorial is old and with long time video duration,btw i found youtuber do good tutorial point out only important thing in few sec/ minute, safe time
This is day 5 of learning Blender on my own. I like the 3D layout- (it’s easier once you learn the shortcuts trust me) and I will be playing around with Greasepencil and 2D animation aspects of it now that I know that it does have this option 😅 wish me luck
Sadly, documentation and tutorials are the weakest thing in grease pencil so far. The blender institute brought out so many new features so fast that they forgot to document them. There is basic documentation, but telling you what each tool does is not enough, considering that this is a revolutionary new way of doing things. It does not explain WHY you use which tool. Also, the intereface is a little clunky and strange, just changing the color is a huge undertaking, you can't just chose a color, you basically have to create a new material for each color you want. Drawing strokes and then filling them also does not work well, fill also has to be predefined. So I might be doing this all wrong, without proper documentation and tutorials this likely can be. But many others will run into the same problem. I wish I was a great enough artist to create tutorials, but drawing is actually the thing I can do least of all things in the world, drawing has always been a huge pain in my life, as far as I can remember back, originating in school, where I guess I had a very uninspiring art teacher.
Even though I don't have an answer for your question, I'd advice you to just download Blender 2.83 and try it out (2.82 has some performance issues on grease pencil that were solved in 2.83). It is both free and lightweight (300 MB), so not a big deal there. I don't know if Blender is better, worse or as good as Adobe Animate for your workflow, so you testing it out is the best way to find it out. (Again, remember to try it on Blender 2.83, not 2.82).
depends on what kind of 2d you're looking for. for 8-bit/16-bit pixel art Aseprite is the most common tool. Resolution above that on your sprites and it's quite up in the air. As it stands I don't believe blender would be the BEST option, but if you are at all familiar with Blender just use it, it has everything you need, it just isn't 100% refined just yet. I vouch for Blender in this case, simply because I know they work on it on a daily basis and it constantly gets vast improvements. Learning it now will benefit you heavily in the future.
Honestly blender has a ton of crazy powerful tools. The learning curve is kind of weird, and interface is definitely not beginner friendly. Though I will say blender offers a lot of automation/interpolation and shortcuts that definitely ease workload and is super nice as a newer artist. I’m dipping my toes into animation and the fact that I can drop in and move around a 3d model against my 2d drawings really helps me figure out perspective without just guessing and undoing and studying references for hours and hours. The best part about animation itself is, you have a ton of options too. If you aren’t confident in hand drawn, you can use armatures. If you have trouble with large movements, you can interpolate. If you have trouble with your characters interacting with the environment, you can literally model it in 3d to help make predictable realistic movements that you can just trace over. It’s so awesome. I could gush for hours but all in all it just definitely makes animation a lot less daunting. If you somehow are reading this and have any sort of interest in 2d animation and don’t know where to start, this is for sure it. Just look up some tutorials and you’re golden cause this software will last you a lifetime.
@@obi_anyaibe that is an amazing question, let me overexplain: it really depends on A.) what you want out of your work and B.) how you want to make it. i would highly highly recommend blender grease pencil for 2d animation because learning blender in general i think is a really important skill and can teach you a lot about 2d and 3d art and animation. learning blender is like a super power you can make virtually any form of digital media you want and you dont have to learn and relearn a billion different programs its just a one stop shop for everything. like 3d art and animation are usually what people think of when they think of blender, but you can also do sculpting, physics simulation, video editing, 2d art and animation, you can do modelling, rigging, and texturing for games and if im not mistaken i think you can actually just straight up make games in blender lol. now whether or not youd necessarily want do do any of those is up to you, my point is to show how versatile blender is, and you can basically make whatever you want if you know how to use it properly. one caveat. blender at its core is a 3d program, which means even when you are working in "2d" youre still technically creating 3d objects that are just infinitely thin. this means in terms of 2d art you are limited to only vector, as raster isnt technically possible in blender's engine. if youre an absolute beginner and dont know what that means think of vector as drawing with shapes and lines which is nice, because you can edit and modify them in real time without having to permanently alter them. so say you make a drawing and theres a specific line you dont like, instead of erasing it you can just hit edit and reshape the line to how you like. raster however you arent drawing with lines you are drawing with pixels, think of it like you have a gigantic grid of squares and when you draw a line youre not creating a line as much as youre changing a pattern of pixels to a certain color. its a bit more nuanced than that but its one thing to keep in mind. do some research into pros and cons. if i were to sum up my personal experience with both raster is faster, but its a bit harder to get things to look exactly right, while in vector it feels a lot clunkier and a bit slower but its waaaay easier to get things to look exactly right on the first try. If you think youd prefer raster over vector, i would say toon boom might be a bit more your speed especially if you really really really dont believe youre ever gonna step into the 3d world whatsoever. toon boom is also equally amazing as blender, and it supports both raster and vector capabilities and i think it can do 3d but only the kind of 3d that blender grease pencil does, only issue is its not a free program. if you need free i would say krita, its kinda like photoshop but its completely free, only issue is no vector and no armatures, if you want vector and armatures only you could try unity. i would do some more research into all of these and even more. If you want like a one sentence answer, i would say grease pencil if you want vector and krita if you want raster. Obviously thats not a really good answer cause its not that simple but you get the point. Mess around with a bunch of them, follow some tutorials on how to make a simple animation in 10 minutes, find what works best for you (side note, if you are gonna go with blender first of all yay good choice but also i would say to start by learning how to make, rig, and animate an armature, if youre familiar the PNGtuber creation and animation process its basically the exact same concept, its crazy easy and helps you learn the basics of grease pencil and when youre comfortable you can either stick with armatures or try your hand at traditional manual animation). there's really no correct answer unfortunately, you just have to find the perfect program for you on your own. blender is the objectively best tool ive mentioned here for animation just because of how powerful and versatile it is, but if you find that you absolutely hate the interface and dont like the overabundance of features that you only kind of understand how they work and cant stand drawing in vector and it just frustrates you to no end you should stay as far away from blender as you can lmao. i personally love blender but i completely totally understand why some people just cannot stomach it, it is an acquired taste after all and totally worth the morning sickness. regardless, theres no use in forcing yourself to use a program that doesnt work for you, thats why theres a billion different programs. most importantly you can only get good by starting, and you can only start by starting. again, download some programs, mess around, please please try to have fun with it. if you get frustrated it starts to become work and the last thing you want is to feel like youre forcing yourself into a hobby, so just take a break and do something then try to come back to it. i believe in you, reply to this if you make some progress id love to see your work :)
@@andrewjett5293 Thank you so very much for taking the time to share your recommendations and explain your rationale for each one. Really, thank you! I had to star the email notification I got for your comment because I just know I'll need to revisit it someday. Based on everything you said, the little research I've done since I asked for your recommendation, and some wonderful animated short films I saw today, which were made with Blender, I think Blender might be my best option so far. At this point, I feel the need to add that I don't really see myself becoming a badass animator someday-animation isn't my field; writing is. But I want to adapt most, if not all, of my short stories into animated films, and I love the challenge of learning how to do it myself, especially because only I can see all that magic the way it's painted in my mind. So, while animation likely won't be a major career for me, it still means more to me than "just another hobby." For me, it's a means to one of my biggest writing goals, which is why I might never pursue animation with as much ambition as an aspiring animator. That's also why I might shy away from complex tools, concepts, and processes, like 3D animation. I actually downloaded Blender a few months ago when I thought I was finally ready to quit procrastinating and act on my dream to animate short films. I would be lying if I said I wasn't intimidated by the program's interface, and it didn't help that most Blender tutorials focus on the 3D aspect more than the 2D aspect. But I've found and saved a couple of tutorial videos (like this one) that seem very comprehensive. Although I haven't seen them yet, the comments of those who have are pretty reassuring. As with any tool I lay my hands on for the first time, my first goal is to understand Blender one (relevant) feature at a time before learning how I can use the program to achieve my specific goals. I'm not really excited about the idea of drawing frame by frame (it sounds monotonous! I'll have to check if Blender allows easy rigging for 2D animation), but I'm still willing to give it a shot. Hopefully, it'll prove worthwhile in the end. If it doesn't, I'll check out Krita and maybe OpenToonz (it's not my style, but I hear it's pretty good and used my some top studios).
@@obi_anyaibe thats awesome to hear! also yes, blender definitely allows suuuuper easy rigging in 2d, its just putting bones where you think bones would probably go and letting inverse kinematics do all the heavy lifting. anyways, your approach seems a lot better than mine, i would highly recommend you keep doing what youre doing lmao. when i started i thought "ahhhh ill just learn as much as i can and then figure out what to do with all these tools" it was horrible to say the least. yeah id say after you feel comfortable enough just start, even if you dont really know what youre doing, very quickly youll be like "crap how do i do this thing" then look up how to do it, the nice thing about blender is there is literally hundreds of pages of documentation officially published for free by blender on how to use every single function the program offers, and the best part is theres a search bar to go along with it so you dont have to pour through hours and hours of manuals just to figure out how to change the opacity of a line. plus they usually offer graphics to help explain what theyre talking about which is suuuuper nice of them. i wish you the best of luck in your journey, and seriously thats so cool you wanna use animate to further enhance the potential of your writing. its pretty ambitious and i am all for it, for real when you make something drop a link to your stuff if you get a chance i would love to check it out.
@@andrewjett5293 Thank you so much for once again! 🤭 I'm super grateful! I'll get on it as soon as I can, and I'll definitely share anything I come up with. I don't mean to be too forward, but I was wondering if you've got a channel where you share some of your works. I refuse to believe someone with all this knowledge and experience doesn't have one.
Nothing worth doing in life is easy you will face resistance no matter what you do in life so, you might as well be doing what you want Embrace the challenge as a chance to grow keep going and doing it regularly Fall down? Get back up no matter what keep going and you'll reach the end someday Believe you can do it Believe in yourself and push let Nothing stop you and Nothing will stop you It's a mindset look for reasons you can instead of reasons you can't There's a whole community that can help you with it and odds are alot of instruction videos on RU-vid to help you too Want it bad enough? go for it and god help anything in your way!
bro its only a matter of time before this becomes mainstream as the main software..... its getting so good so fast..... Not that I want them to charge but I almost feel if they did everyone would be stupid to not use this.... like legit if they added like a photoshop and premiere component to blender legit would be all u need in one software....
I feel like too little is being said about the Freestyle rendering which allows you render 3d objects in a way that makes them look like drawn in 2d, making it perfect for combining with the grease pencil for background art and for the props that would be too consuming to be animated in 2d as you would need to draw them from many different angles.
Blender is definitely not a straightforward 2d animation program but it looks to me that it can open an anazing array of possibilities and probably save you a lot of time by using 3d...
Sick video as always InspirationTuts. You have me wondering if the artist; Otaking who did Star Wars Tie Fighter and Dr Who Anime animation was using Blender or sorts? I don't know i'll have to ask him next time he does a LiveStream video chat on his channel. Anyways cheers this was wonderful, i love 2D animation even over 3D CGI stuff. Hey?, i grew up on cartoons on TV afterall (lol).
wow, blender is finally an amazing software package. So happy to see how it´s evolved since the first time I put my hands on it, more than 20 years ago! Kudos to the open source community!
The fact that a massive animation company is moving to blender means that blender is probably legit. (for those who aren't sure yet, or think its too good to be true)
I cannot express my gratitude, I have been longing to make my own series. It won’t be easy but at least someone was able to guide me to what could potentially be a reliable source.
I think since there are lots of choices of shapes, pre-made models, and other professional stuff, it would be easier to do 2d animation than something like autodesk sketchbook desktop or flip-a-clip.
So A year later form this video realese. Can I say... Would it be good to use for a Animated feature? Cuase oddly enough everything I see here shows stuff that I do when I draw. Well the idea of useing 3d models as Templates to draw over to give and create the 2d feel. Would this still work?
Animation has its own set of principles the fact that you can draw consistently means your in a good place to start There's the illusion of life book And There's the books on animation by the guy who made astro boy There's also the 12 principles of Animation and a bunch more on RU-vid Stay strong embrace the challenge and grow Your most of the way there Now get out there and smash Animation! Do it for you keep going no matter what and you'll get there Form a habit and a positive mindset to always get up and keep going Work on Animation regularly and you will get to the end in time like anything else. If you got this far what's one more? If you can code as well as all that other stuff you have more than enough inside you to overcome this last obstacle.
I'm looking for a program to replace the dead Dragonbones, does blender have the same functions as Dragonbones and Spine? Can you make a video on the subject?
Question: 2.82 in Object-mode I placed an image for reference, and when I switch to Draw-mode to trace it the strokes disappear when I draw them and / lose their texture fx. How can I fix this issue?
