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But there’s a challenge, and an opportunity. “It’s hard to find people who do hybrid storyboarding,” Alex says. “I assume that in ten years, you’ll have many artists working in this way. But at the moment, it’s still new. I know very few boarders using Grease Pencil.”

And while many aspects of the tool have immensely improved over time, the core data-structures of Grease Pencil have remained the same for about 15 years. We are now facing the limitations of its initial design – introducing: Grease Pencil 3.0. Grease Pencil 3.0” is a full rewrite of the current implementation, aiming to lay a solid foundation for the next 10+ years. Once the first milestone is in place and validated by the community, the focus can shift to improving and expanding the Grease Pencil feature set. Alex has always been attracted to multidisciplinary ways of working. “I love to mix techniques. And that’s what Blender is so good at. Blender reflects my artistic interests. From the perspective of what I do, it offers this perfect mix of 2D and 3D.” Against these huge, tragic events, Maryam & Varto tells the intimate story of two Armenian children fleeing the Ottomans… and encountering an unlikely ally. “The story of two Armenian kids being rescued by a Turkish teenager is based on reality,” says Alex. “Events like this really did occur.”

and the add-on will take care to set up all the general settings and create the work-spaces and Scenes needed for the Because storyboarding relies on speed, Alex animates Grease Pencil objects in minimal ways. “For instance, if I’m animating a character walking, I’ll animate the Grease Pencil object along its axis, with ups and downs, as the basis for the walk cycle. Which means I have to draw less. You can get a lot of expressivity out of just animating this one drawing.” Special thanks goes to Tangent Animation and Aleph Objects, who funded 4 additional developers to work full-time on Blender 2.8 during the crucial 2017 period. This enabled us to work on the viewport, Eevee, collections/layers, UI and tools redesign. Special “Rolling” mode is available. It displays keyframes with a constant spacing, discarding timing data when

When I talk about Grease Pencil with other directors, even with producers, they always love it. Directors are into Grease Pencil because they can previsualize their film, including expressive character drawings in a CG environment, with cameras. Producers love it because it saves time in production — many creative choices have already been nailed.”Temporally copy the audio from the video sequencer to the source scene. Audio Ignore Muted Sound (Switch Mode) On top of Maryam & Varto, Alex is working on an international animated project. Blender helps Alex visualize the film cost-effectively, giving a solid sense of the overall project. “I’m pushing a way of working where we do a first pass in Blender, using only low-poly characters and environments. Plus some basic rendering in EEVEE, and a bit of rigging. Basically, staging each scene in Blender to get a feel for it. Then capturing stills of these 3D images and using them as the basis for more refined 2D art. Which in turn fuels the more traditional 3D part of the production.” While Maryam & Varto aims to raise awareness around a heartbreaking period, it will do so in an accessible way. “It’s a deep and intense subject,” Alex says, “But we chose to avoid a super harsh tone. There have been a few films done on this topic, and they’ve been very dark. Here, we’re going for pure story: two kids and a teenager running away, and becoming friends. It’s serious, of course, but we’re mainly going for an adventure that engages the audience.” For Alex, education alone doesn’t solve the issue. “Producers will sometimes say, ‘Just train your storyboarders to use this workflow.’ But I think it’s deeper than that. It’s a question of culture. You see, if you show a story artist Blender, they say, ‘That’s wonderful, that looks great, but that’s not how I think.’ Story artists mostly think in 2D.” Alex studied 2D animation at the celebrated GOBELINS school of visual arts in Paris, an institution that supplies world-class talent to major studios like Disney, Pixar, and Universal.

If the render format is Image the add-on will render one image on each keyframe found in the source scene of the Alex explains: “With Grease Pencil, it’s so easy to grab the pupils and move them. You don’t need to erase or redraw anything. I’m just faster in Blender. Even if I’m only using the 2D workspace, no 3D cameras or models.” Alex works on a handheld camera effect using noise. The team is happy to help anyone who would want to contribute to the project. If you have any questions, head on over to the main communication channel on blender.chat (#grease-pencil-module). There are also bi-weekly module meetings that anyone who wants to contribute can join. You can find the meeting notes and when the next meeting is happening here.There are two modes for editing source scenes, you can select the mode under Edit Scenes section in the Stoypencil If the render format is Movie the add-on will render one Movie clip per Scene strip using the video sequencer render Currently, however, the only hybrid storyboarder on Alex’s team is… Alex. “I think this technique delivers the most value in action sequences, where space and camera movement are paramount. As opposed to comedy or drama, where the core of the scene is about timing and performance. There you can convey what’s needed with a traditional, flat storyboard.”

At the end of 2022, the Grease Pencil module conducted a survey to figure out what the community (hobbyists and professionals alike) wanted the most. The results showed us that our plans are well aligned with what people expect to have in Grease Pencil. He continues: “I really am in love with this hybrid workflow. It’s especially amazing for someone like me, who has to nail his ideas as fast as possible.” Blender helps Alex circumvent a problem he’s seen repeatedly within the more traditional pipeline. “After a year of having this 2D vision in my head,” he says, “I often find that the design has to be rethought when it comes to 3D. But with Blender, you’re able to draw in Grease Pencil and also work in 3D, which means you get a very solid creative vision early on. It’s already an accurate representation of a 3D world.” Layers box height, width, font size, and left-handed mode are customizable in add-on preferences. Timeline Scrub Today, Grease Pencil has grown even more. It is used by small and big studios around the world. Movies like “Unicorn Wars” have been fully animated with it. Here's how you can make the most of the Grease Pencil in Blender. What Is the Blender Grease Pencil? doesn’t even work with an outliner simple drag and drop. You have to press shift to make it work. For something that has to be used 1000 times a day, it’s not optimal. With the Grease Pencil, Blender drawings come to life as vectorized stroke objects, complete with points of control strung all the way along.