Rigged Grease Pencil: Blender Music Video Project

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I’ve been working on a music video, which will be made entirely in Blender Grease Pencil.
In this video, I demonstrate one of the character’s rigs, animating a walk cycle, playing with lighting, and also compositing a test scene. My intention is to give semi-regular updates on how this project is progressing.
Also, after I finish this project, I will be putting out a tutorial designed for complete beginners to Blender and Grease Pencil, stepping through the stages of how to make this rigged Grease Pencil character. So please subscribe if you don't want to miss that. :)
When the final video is released, I’ll post a link here:
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:50 Rig Demonstration
02:13 Walk Cycle Workflow
02:40 8 Stages of a Walk Cycle
03:40 Blocking Out the Walk Cycle
05:17 Spline Animation
06:05 Overlapping Action
07:40 NLA Editor, Layering Animation
09:22 Final Walk Cycle
09:30 3D Lighting
10:35 Compositing
12:13 Final Scene, and Goodbye
13:00 End Card

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20 июл 2024

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@LavenderSweetness 3 года назад

Would love to see a more in-depth series for grease pencil puppet rigs! I'm very interested in learning more! Great video! :)

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

You got it! Will do... thanks for the comment.

@TheRafaelAnimation 2 года назад

Your 2D rig is fantastic and I'm sad the tutorial on your approach is not yet available ! Love your work and good job for putting in the time to learn the software, your experience shows in the quality of your work.

@activemotionpictures 3 года назад

How marvelous!! Thank you for sharing this!!

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

You are so welcome! Thanks Pierre!!

@chrisgleason8767 3 года назад

Dude... Your tutorials have gotten a lot better and you seem a lot more comfortable with Blender. I am definitely looking forward to more tutorials. You have been a better teacher than half of my college professors.

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Glad to hear it!

@lirikin1871 2 года назад

i love all your tutorial about rigging on grease pencil, that,s so very cool man !!!

@ViliamRockai 3 года назад

I love this! Having all these steps explained in more details would be gold! I would especially be interested how you keep order in the whole project. Is every scene in a separate file? How do you manage assets, including materials. Is it easy to change the color of the shirt so every scene would reflect that? Or a lens distortion effect for all the scenes. So many questions! Looking forward your following content.

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Hi Villiam, I'm sorry for the late reply. I'm so glad to see some interest in this area, unfortunately, I'm no expert and I know that I'm doing many things incorrectly. To answer some of your questions, yes, every scene is in a separate file. This keeps the performance organisation of the scenes easy to manage. With that said, I know that there is some scene functionality within a single file, however, I'm more comfortable with working with several files, and then editing them together after rendering. Regarding assets that are used between scenes, like materials and Riggs, I know that it's possible to instance these assets in a way that they are consistent between all files, however, I'm unfamiliar with these tools, and as this is my first large project and the learning curve is already very steep, I chose to avoid this. I hope that this answers your questions, feel free to ask if you have any more.

@afriindie5558 3 года назад

Definitely interested, please do the Livestream of grease pencil character animation from start to finish

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Ok noted. Thanks

@jay4kk 3 года назад

Love to see a live stream!

@valentinzacarias7673 3 года назад

Amazing content! There is very little information about grease pencil and rigging, so your stuf is the best produced content about that blender great tool. Please keep teaching us! Greetings from Argentina!

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Thanks, will do!

@betalike 3 года назад

IMBA!. I need to be your student. This is exactly what i need to learn.

@mostlycolin 3 года назад

Great video squirrel master. Been struggling with getting full characters rigged in grease pencil so I'm looking forward to your tutorial. Thanks for making these though, they help a lot!

@eurekaa_ 3 года назад

Can't wait for more videos:)

@randomrandle9141 3 года назад

This looks phocking amazing Your so freaking skilled

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Thanks for the kind encouragement!

@just_tammy 3 года назад

You're truly incredible bro!!

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

I appreciate that! Hope to see more of your animations!

@mateoacevedocontreras6087 3 года назад

I would definitely love to see more of this. And I know some artists that aren’t animators looking to push their skills in such a way. A course or series of tutorials in this could be very useful as the only substantial source for grease pencil rigging is only Level Pixel Level, apart from your channel of course. Your insights and advices in using the compositor and setting up the rig as well as the 3D space in an economic way for your computer would be greatly appreciated.

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Noted! Thanks!

@blenderzone5446 3 года назад

so great and inspiring!

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

So glad! Thanks for commenting!

@fridoper124 3 года назад

I like this tutorial😊😊😊, very help. Thankyou!

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Glad it was helpful!

@dontusedontuse8273 3 года назад

I can't wait bro

@ERPOLLEY 3 года назад

Property Bones? Appears to work like the graphic symbols in Animate CC. That is amazing! I must know how! ^_^

@jonathanboisvert102 2 года назад

This was great I want to try it can you make a video on rigging a character as welll as compositing

@nataliavlis6689 3 года назад

Live streaming! Sure! Just let us know!!! I would like you to pay a little bit more attention to nodes and shading, for me it's the big dark forest! :-) By the way, how did you make this lightning system -wonderful interaction!!!

@DanB 3 года назад

you're the boss!! thanks for all your videos very helpful.. :)

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Happy to help! Thanks for the tunes :)

@ginescap 3 года назад

¡spectacular! thanks :)

@Kram1032 3 года назад

Lovely work! I think his right foot looks kinda wonky when in motion though. It works for standing, but it looks oddly twisted when moving. Not entirely sure if there is an easy way to fix that. Maybe you just need to provide some foot rotation like you already do for the head...

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Yea. The foot does look a bit twisted. Maybe I could add more drawing like I did with the hand. Thanks for the comment

@aMMMm663 3 года назад

looks neat

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Thanks!

@JoonyTv 3 года назад

Ive never really seen the graph editor in use, i know moho has one just like blender, but thats about it, never really bothered looking into it too much, as i offset most things i need inside the timeline itself. Maybe you wanna make a video on that one day? id be interested. Good luck on your music video :)

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Thanks Jonny, I use the graph editors all the time... I'll try to do a vid on them someday.

@dennissabrievski4543 3 года назад

Dude you are the guru of 2D animation! Nicely done hats off to your work Out of topics speaking of rigging is it possible to do ik and fk rig system in Moho especially for feet ?

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Hi Dennis. Thank you for your kind comment. In answer to your question yes. Moho does have both IK and FK rings. As of yet I am unaware how to switch between them, in moho, which is something that I will cover in the tutorial that I mentioned. Thanks again

@TeiPerez 2 года назад

Hi! Was curious if you're still planning on making a 2d character rigging and animation tutorial series! I really liked how you setup the controllers and your use of the bones properties to change between poses was amazing. I would be incredible to learn how to make it myself! :)

@SketchySquirrel 2 года назад

Hi there, I am still planning to make a 2D character rigging course, however it is not currently in production. Thanks for asking :)

@TeiPerez 2 года назад

@@SketchySquirrel sounds great! Can't wait to see it! 😊

@lex_yol 3 года назад

Просто великолепно)!

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Большое спасибо!!!

@berrypie1502 3 года назад

Let's gooo

@betalike 3 года назад

Master! We need the tutorial T:T !! TY in advance! Go Go!

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Once I finish this project :) Thanks for the comment.

@TommyLikeTom 3 года назад

good job sketchy. You should be animating for games

@namuzed 3 года назад

Would love to see a full rig construction series! A lot of the videos out there are either brief rig tricks or are mainly focused on frame-by-frame techniques.

@waertarek 3 года назад

Yeah!! I'm interesed too in the rig process :) please !

@MVLTI 2 года назад

Would love a 2d character rigging series!

@SketchySquirrel 2 года назад

Hi there. I'm actually working on a tutorial right now, it should be out soon. I'm glad to see some interest :)

@cyanlos01 3 года назад

I'm interested in seeing if we can replicate the ways ToonBoom and Adobe Animate create character rigs for production work. If that's possible in Blender, that would be a huge boon.

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Hi, Cyan. I totally agree. This is why I'm making this video. So far I've found that it is capable of anything than Toon Boom or animate can do, however right now the tools are a little under developed, and there are some inefficiencies and problems, but nothing that too big.

@Clashtoons 3 года назад

Please make a tutorial on properties bone to switch hand pose and mouth pose please.

@JimPAnimation 3 года назад

Wait, how do you have shadows on grease pencil?? I thought we needed the effects to do that. are the shadows really real time for GP in 2.91?

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

I'm glad you noticed. Currently GP does not support cast shadows. However, I came up with a bit of a work around. Maybe I can make tutorial on the subject if this feature isn't added soon. Thanks for your comment

@Blenderislove 3 года назад

@@SketchySquirrel some hint please :) is it rendered to png sequence and imported as images as planes?

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

@@Blenderislove Sounds to me like you don't need a hint. Once the animation is finalised, that's exactly what I do. It'll be great when it's added as a native feature.

@JimPAnimation 3 года назад

@@SketchySquirrel Or you could attach a blank 3d flat object to each bone (could even be an image plane) BEHIND the GP just for casting shadow purposes. Either way its all extra steps until GP gives us shadows :-) thanks

@ayylmao.mp3 3 года назад

@@Blenderislove wow thanks for the trick! I've played with planes but that sucks for moving things / animation. For anyone doing this in Eevee, remember to set the image material Shadow Mode to Alpha Clip/Hashed.

@agathiyan2493 3 года назад

I afraid of those nodes would love to see some tutorials on that and shading tutorial

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

I learn a little more and share what I learn :)

@agathiyan2493 3 года назад

@@SketchySquirrel thanks in advance

@cgblenderespanol7181 3 года назад

Amazing congratulation, but wouldn't be easier to make the character in 3D and then put an animation shader style?

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Hi, the answer to your question is yes. however while NPR shaders are amazing, they don't achieve the 2D look that Grease Pencil does. By creating a 2D character emulating 3D, it created a totally different look than the other way around. I'm glad that you liked it. :)

@jonathanboisvert102 2 года назад

You have enough interests to make a course on this and you would be making a fortune on fiverr for work of this quality

@WesleySales1 3 года назад

Incredible work! Waiting for the tutorial series or a course published on Udemy, it would be an instant purchase. One question: Do you prefer to animate 2d directly in Blender now than in Moho? What are the advantages and disadvantages in your opinion?

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Thanks Wesley! I actually prefer to animate in Blender - the rigging might take a little longer (with less rigging tools) but you have a lot more flexibility when animating (and lots of extra environmental tools and lighting etc). It will be interesting to see how GP will be developed in the near future.

@WesleySales1 3 года назад

@@SketchySquirrel Thanks for the answer. I already work with Blender, but I want to try Moho too, although you demonstrate that it can be very interesting to work with Grease Pencil.

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

@@WesleySales1 Moho is a wonderful tool and reasonably easy to grasp and get working with. It has excellent new owners which will mean a bright future for its development too.

@jonathanboisvert102 2 года назад

Take my money

@3jerba 3 года назад

Can you sequence the walk cycle?

@zackumper9709 2 года назад

Hei just want to know ..... >:0 how do you make the grease pencil has a cast shadow(i can't find any tutorial explaining those)

@SketchySquirrel 2 года назад

Hi there. Thanks for asking. To be honest, by default, Grease Pencil doesn't support this. I was experimenting with different ways of doing this. In this video, I rendered the character walking as an image sequence, with a transparent background, then reimported it with the import images as planes. Thos can the be placed just behind the Grease Pencil. Thos would then cast the shadow. The down side to this method you can't change the animation, as the shadow won't update. Also, because of the parallax effect, it's difficult to hide the plane behind the Grease Pencil. In fact in this video, you can see the double up by the feet. Anyways. I hope that this explanation was helpful. :)

@ZipDraw 3 года назад

i thought that grease pencil objects didn't cast shadows from lights?

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Hi Zip, Technically they don't, however I managed to cheat it using an image sequence and the import images as planes addon. I've still got some issues to work out, and it means that once you've set up the shadows you can't change the animation, but It nice to have a work around. :)

@ZipDraw 3 года назад

@@SketchySquirrel i am so going to try that! Wow!

@ajithanuwan4880 3 года назад

can grease pencil objects cast shadows?

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Hi Ox Boffice, techniqly no, however I managed a work around, using image seauences

@ajithanuwan4880 3 года назад

@@SketchySquirrel can you please show us how..😭

@virat651 2 года назад

when the tutorial going to come out bro

@SketchySquirrel 2 года назад

Hi there. Thanks for the interest. I know in the video I said that the character would be based on this character. However I've learnt a lot about rigging in blender since then, and so I chose to create a different character. Here's the tutorial that I was referencing ; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hcTb07V2Zgk.html I hope that you enjoy it :D

@virat651 2 года назад

@@SketchySquirrel thank you so much I love you bro

@iknowyou4556 3 года назад

Pls make a video on animation in android.. Love from India🇮🇳♥️

@thamires.magalhaes 3 года назад

I'm always surprised with your knowledge on blender. Maybe for tutorials you could start with basic scene compositions and effects, maybe more people might get interested.. ;)

@SketchySquirrel 3 года назад

Great suggestion! Thanks!

@thamires.magalhaes 3 года назад

@@SketchySquirrel No problem! Glad I could help ^^