It is truly impressive.ĭaniel Lara has created a mini-tutorial series showing how you can get started with Blender’s amazing Grease Pencil tool for creating 2D Animations (all listed with that link). If you haven’t seen how it works, you can check out some of the animations created with it, along with some behind the scenes stuff. The idea became to get a production ready 2D animation tool that can mix 2D drawings with 3D objects and compositions. Additions to the stroke editing features along with the sculpt tools, however, made Blender’s Grease Pencil a real alternative for 2D animators. Typically, a grease pencil tool in a 3D application would be used for on-screen notes, arcing out animations, planning for in-betweens and things like that.

While that sounds nice, it is the tech behind Grease Pencil that really makes it exciting. Daniel Lara’s has been working with Blender’s Grease Pencil tool, creating some 2D animations. Blender is a free open-source 3D Computer Graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, motion graphics, interactive 3D applications, virtual reality and computer games. A new tool and method for creating 2D animation has turned up in an unlikely place - Blender. Grease Pencil is a component of the 3D modeling and animation program, Blender.

Grease pencil animation