Mysterious Grease Pencil! | How I Animate in Blender!​ 

Glad you enjoyed it!

Yeah, I'm glad that your tutorial is doing so well! they bring a lot of value, even with the new weight painting tools!

Hi there, thank you for your kind comment, it sounds like you're having trouble with weight painting. The auto weighting functions in blender are designed for 3D meshes, and they don't work very well for grease pencil, so I tend to make the weights from scratch. I hope this is helpful, if you would like me to take a look at a specific file, send it to my email address (you can find it here: ru-vid.comabout ) and I'll have a look. All the best :D

I'm also waiting for simple rigging rechenequics video

Thank you for your kind comment. I'm definitely thinking about putting together a more beginner friendly tutorial, and I'm just figuring out what that will look like. Can't make any promises at the moment, but keep an eye out :D

Hi there, thank you for your kind comment. That's a good question about the output settings, by default it does output as an image sequence, which is good for avoiding compression, so if you choose to use image sequences, then when your are editing them together, there really shouldn't be a need to import them one frame at a time, as most video editing programs have the ability to import all images as a sequence. In the Blender video sequence editor (which is what I use) you can press SHIFT+A, and choose image/sequence from the drop down, then in the file explorer, we just have to select all the images in the sequence. If you would prefer to export as a video file, rather than an image sequence, then you can adjust the output settings, changing the file format from PNG to FFmpeg, and if you prefer an mp4 file rather than mkv default, then under encoding you can change the 'container' property from Matroska to MPEG-4. Thanks again for the kind comment, and I hope my response has been helpful :D

@@SketchySquirrel thank you bud. this is new info to me. i thought it was only image sequencing. i stopped using blender for that reason, and well, it is a tough learning curve for me. i can follow some tutorials easy enough, so i guess it is time to return with this new info. as single images was a nightmare for me. i used filmora which imported each image to the timeline at 1 second, so i had to adjust each one.

Hi there, good question, Grease Pencil is part of Blender, not a separate software. Essentially Blender has various types of objects, which in the past has included meshes, cameras, curves etc and more recently this includes Grease Pencil. Grease Pencil exists in a 3D space, just like a mesh, but it hold 2D drawings. I hope you do decide to install Blender, and I hope you have a great time!

Thank you for your encouragement!

Thank you for your interest! I'll certainly give it some thought. Tutorials take quite a lot of time and energy, but it's also really valuable for the community, and to me, so it's definitely a good idea!

Hi, so as Grease Pencil is Vector based, we can change the resolution afterwards, which is amazing. All you have to do is go the output settings, and under Format, under Resolution, increase the X and Y values, until it's a quality you're happy with. If you're not asking about resolution, but compression, you can make sure that the output format is set to PNG, which is lossless. I hope this answers your question. Let me know if you need any more help :)

Hi there, I'm flipping the head and moving the eyes and mouth etc :)

@@SketchySquirrel got it, thanks!

Hi there, I’m sorry that I didn’t respond to your original question. I can understand why you would find a more detailed tutorial useful. However, it does take a lot of time and effort to make such videos. The videos that I do make, I do not charge for, so it has to hold some personal value for me. I really don’t use Moho very often any more, so I can't spare the time to make a detailed video or explanation. But I wish you all the best in figuring it out for yourself, and I hope that the video that I did make will be helpful to you as you progress. Thank you for your understanding.