![Sketchy Squirrel](/img/default-banner.jpg)
- 141
- 1 126 302
Sketchy Squirrel
New Zealand
Registrace 1. 10. 2015
Animating in Blender Grease Pencil! Come join me as I animate with this Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)!
Welcome to my channel! I'm Joel and I love drawing, animating and telling stories. As I learn more about art and animation techniques, I try them out and post them here.
If you're interested, subscribe and join me on my journey.
Welcome to my channel! I'm Joel and I love drawing, animating and telling stories. As I learn more about art and animation techniques, I try them out and post them here.
If you're interested, subscribe and join me on my journey.
Hardwired | Blender | Year 3 Capstone Project | Yoobee Colleges
2023 was my last year of university. This is the final project that I made in a group of 3. We learned a lot and are pretty happy with the end result.
Also I just finished my first day of work today at an Animation Studio so that's exciting, and you can expect to see a video about my experience at some point soon!
Check out my team mates Artstation pages:
Kerri : www.artstation.com/kerriwheeler4
Laura : www.artstation.com/lauragraham
Also I just finished my first day of work today at an Animation Studio so that's exciting, and you can expect to see a video about my experience at some point soon!
Check out my team mates Artstation pages:
Kerri : www.artstation.com/kerriwheeler4
Laura : www.artstation.com/lauragraham
zhlédnutí: 2 117
Video
Making Drawings come to Life with #blender & #krita | Huion Review
zhlédnutí 5KPřed 8 měsíci
This is a super late Halloween themed project, using Krita to create a spooky painting, and breathing life into it with Blender's rigging tools. If you are an artist, and want a free and open source tool to animate your illustrations, Blender is a great option, and hopefully this video demonstrates the basic workflow. This project was created on the Huion Kamvas pro 13 2.5K, which was sent to m...
Mysterious Grease Pencil! | How I Animate in Blender!
zhlédnutí 10KPřed 11 měsíci
I just finished reading Montgomery Bonbon, Murder at the Museum, by @ABeckettKing illustrated by Claire Powell - www.claire-powell.com I read it with my sister, and we all really enjoyed it. It's written for 8 - 12-year-olds, and those who are a child at heart! Alasdair Beckett-King or ABK, is a really talented author, comedian, and all around Polymath. He even uses Blender to make animations! ...
Ghibli Grease Pencil Workflow | 5 HOURS! | Anime
zhlédnutí 3,7KPřed rokem
This is a 2x speed timelapse of the entire process, of making an animated shot in Blender Grease Pencil. P2Design Affiliate Link: www.p2design-academy.com/?affcode=1114550_drnke7-k I am proud to be an affiliate of P2Design. I want to be clear that I don't take this lightly. I've turned down other sponsorship opportunities in the past because I didn't support their methods, or vouch for their pr...
Ghibli's Nausicaä in Blender Grease Pencil
zhlédnutí 5KPřed rokem
In this video, I demonstrate how I went about making a fun #greasepencil project, inspired by Studio Ghibli's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. #blender #b2d #b3d #ghibli #ghiblimovies #cutoutanimation #nausicaa #animation Here are some helpful videos on rigging, that you might find helpful making a similar project: czcams.com/video/ChqSqDGCTRA/video.html czcams.com/play/PLvrk7pBVZDRl7yQExCoO...
REALTIME Grease Pencil Character Rig | 8 Hours of Blender Workflow!
zhlédnutí 17KPřed rokem
In a previous video (czcams.com/video/tz4GShhTuh8/video.html) I demonstrated how to use an add on designed to simply the use of Action Constraints. This character was shown as part of the demonstration. This video is a real time recording of how I made this character, using #blender #greasepencil. This video is not for the faint of heart, but hopefully, you can learn something about my workflow...
Smart-Bones🦴 Addon for Blender! - Great for Grease Pencil Workflow!
zhlédnutí 86KPřed rokem
In this tutorial, I demonstrate how to use my own free Blender addon to simplify the process of using action constraints in order to rig a character's head turn. My addon automates the process of adding action constraints to individual bones, saving time and allowing for a similar efficient workflow as 2D cutout animation software. This tutorial covers the basics of using the addon, as well as ...
A Year At Animation School
zhlédnutí 3,7KPřed rokem
I have recently completed my first year (year 2 of the course) at animation school, working towards a Bachelor of Animation. I had a lot of fun and learned a lot, so I thought I would share that experience in the form of this video. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:28 - Semester 1 01:00 - Experimental Animations 01:30 - Stop Motion Project 01:47 - Soap PSA Project ...
Blender at University | Brilliant Tool for 3D and 2D
zhlédnutí 11KPřed 2 lety
This video covers the process of a 3D animation project that I made for my Bachelor of Animation, I also show how I reproduce the same project in 2D Grease Pencil, using the character from my previous rigging Tutorial: czcams.com/video/hcTb07V2Zgk/video.html This project took about 4 weeks, although I had 3 other courses and corresponding assignments due at similar a time. Do you prefer 2D or 3...
Groovy Grease Pencil Cut-Out Character Rigging Tutorial | Intermediate to Advanced Blender
zhlédnutí 83KPřed 2 lety
Groovy Grease Pencil Cut-Out Character Rigging Tutorial | Intermediate to Advanced Blender
Exploring Grease Pencil with Sophie Jantak | First Collaboration! | Blender 3.0
zhlédnutí 6KPřed 2 lety
Exploring Grease Pencil with Sophie Jantak | First Collaboration! | Blender 3.0
Project Workflow - Blender Grease Pencil
zhlédnutí 8KPřed 2 lety
Project Workflow - Blender Grease Pencil
Blender Grease Pencil Music Video Project Teaser
zhlédnutí 5KPřed 2 lety
Blender Grease Pencil Music Video Project Teaser
Godot Game Dev with Blender Grease Pencil
zhlédnutí 26KPřed 3 lety
Godot Game Dev with Blender Grease Pencil
Grease Pencil Layout and Compositing: Blender Music Video Project
zhlédnutí 7KPřed 3 lety
Grease Pencil Layout and Compositing: Blender Music Video Project
Background and Scene Setup : Grease Pencil Music Video Project
zhlédnutí 4,6KPřed 3 lety
Background and Scene Setup : Grease Pencil Music Video Project
Rigged Grease Pencil: Blender Music Video Project
zhlédnutí 7KPřed 3 lety
Rigged Grease Pencil: Blender Music Video Project
Blender Grease Pencil Head-Turn Part 4: Animation & Lip Sync
zhlédnutí 23KPřed 3 lety
Blender Grease Pencil Head-Turn Part 4: Animation & Lip Sync
Blender Grease Pencil Head-Turn Part 3: Actions
zhlédnutí 36KPřed 4 lety
Blender Grease Pencil Head-Turn Part 3: Actions
Blender Grease Pencil Head-Turn Part 2: Rigging
zhlédnutí 77KPřed 4 lety
Blender Grease Pencil Head-Turn Part 2: Rigging
Blender Grease Pencil Head-Turn Part 1: Drawing
zhlédnutí 103KPřed 4 lety
Blender Grease Pencil Head-Turn Part 1: Drawing
Blender Grease Pencil Character Head Turn
zhlédnutí 34KPřed 4 lety
Blender Grease Pencil Character Head Turn
Speed Rig | Afghan Girl Style Test | Time Lapse
zhlédnutí 7KPřed 4 lety
Speed Rig | Afghan Girl Style Test | Time Lapse
🥰 Great work
Quite an amazing explanation.
Thanks for your hard work!
this is a master class man, OMG! thanks
This is SO inspiring and I can't wait to see more from you! :D I do have a question though, since you're far more experienced with Blender than I am... If I wanted to create assets for Godot in grease pencil, let's say, 3D objects with grease pencil on top of them..is there a way to add them into Godot as of now? As long as they are low-poly, could I add a good amount of interactive objects or is Godot limited in how many can be used in a space or level? Can they be animated as well in their 3D state or is that limited to flat, grease pencil animations? Sorry..I'm still learning about grease pencil but I find it's potential with godot fascinating and want to see what it's capable of.
I'd love to see a more in depth tutorial of the coat and the Tweak bones of the sleeves. I'm trying to work out a good foreshortening workflow but can't quite work out the structure of the rig
"Stretch-to" seems to break everything. They start twisting the original bones all over the place, making them unusable. I tried: - parent swapping - disconnecting original bones - keeping them on the same layer - using new bones for the MCHs - starting from scratch Is there a fix or workaround for this issue?
you are a master... when I was young, I want to animate like you. 20 years earlier ... in this time don't exist tutorials, I don't had internet in my home. I learned to animated simple things in after effects, I make a chapter in Flash (very little), and eventually did renders for architects on 3Dmax... I never could realize my dream.. now I have 39 years old, I working editing videos and the most funny part is color grading. I tried to be a colorist but is a difficult nich to work. Now e see your videos and Im nostalgic, I would love to comeback to this dream, but I feel old, to much time lost.... Congratulations my friend, keep growing, keep doing this amazing job, make your dreams reality .
Hi!! been keeping up with your content, been peaking between this series and the 8 hour video to make my own rig, I'm wondering if latices are better vs using vertex with weight painting, thanks in advance, you rock!!!
Hello! Im just starting to try blender for cutout animation and your tutorials are great! Quick question, is this the same workflow as your “groovy grease pencil tutorial?” Thanks and thank you for all your hard work 😊
it would be great if they showed the creation of Riga from scratch, I did not understand at all how it works
Hey man, can you write something like this but for image swapping? so you feed it 5 poses for low angle, high angle and low angle, each angle has one front view and 3 sideviews inbetweens for each side. and we can control this with one bone and images will swap around , this should get rid of that 3d flashgames look
Oh men, this is awesome. Mainly from a Joysticks 'n Sliders background. However, I feel this workflow underutilizes the 3D nature of Blender. It is a 3D program men, why not just making it in 3D? You could at least using a 3D object as a reference for the movement. Anyway, the result is top level and I learn a lot in how to make things from scratch for 2D and 2.5 in Blender, which is extremely useful for certain situations where there is no other way to do it. Thanks a lot for sharing.
"Can I use a mouse for drawing in Blender grease pencil , and will I achieve professional results if I draw with it?"
Hello, absolutely! It can be uncomfortable, but using smoothing, modifiers, sculpt mode, and the curve and line tools, you can achieve just as good results as you can with a tablet. It might be a little more time consuming, but it's totally doable :)
@@SketchySquirrel Can I draw on my phone and then transfer the drawing? I can draw well on my phone and think it will be easier than drawing with a mouse
I don't understand why we need to use control bones with constraints and such, wouldn't it be simpler to just use one rig?
Thank you for the video tutorial I really appreciate it I have a problem, I’m stuck at 17:25 - 18:15. I’m trying to move the EYEBROW controller bone, but it seems like bones are not parented to the BROW. And I don’t understand why? Pls can u help me?
Oh look 3 years later this is very useful, thank you so much for creating this.
In the Adobe Animate program, there is the Symbol and Nested Symbol feature, which speeds up work very much, and I did not find anything similar to it in other programs. Is there a similar feature or ability in Grease pencil ?
Hi there, I'm really not that familiar with Adobe animate, so I'm not entirely sure how that workflow works, but my understanding is that the idea of nested symbols is very unique to Animate, but you should be able to achieve a similar workflow by using different grease pencil objects, and a parenting hierarchy. If you have any questions about rigging in Grease Pencil, please let me know, and I'll do my best to help you out :)
@@SketchySquirrel Watch this video and you will understand what I mean czcams.com/video/SlfO-QVYlb0/video.html another thing can you make a lesson about design or tracing character from beginning to end and make professional joint in grease pencil thank you
@@SketchySquirrel I tried more than once to write to you here, but you immediately delete the comment. I don’t know why
How much of total working hour it took.you bro 😮😮😮😮.. from start to finish ❤
Hi there, it took about 10 hours in total. If you're interested you can see a 2X speed timelapse on my channel :)
please make a full video from scratch dedicated to smart bone feature
were did bro get the ink pen brush from
Hey, it's just one of the default brushes in Blender. It's called "Ink Pen Rough" :)
@@SketchySquirrel oh thanks
Please 🥺 please reply that dear sketchy squirrel....buddy Could we rotate the character by 360 degree or not ❤ just like
you are a great teacher frfr
I dont arrive to install 😭
Oh my gosh- this is awesome!!!! I could watch it all day 😌😌! I hope you're super proud of yourself!!! I did have a question.. for yoobee, did you need to make a digital portfolio? I'm hoping to enter a media design/animation course or degree... I have no idea what type of portfolio they're looking for 👀, I'd love to be able to animate just like this one day and tell a story :D
Hey thank you so much! At Yoobee, they pretty much accept anyone who applies. It's not a particularly prestigious school, but the tutors were great, and I found it really valuable. In my case, because I had spent much of my high school years making animations, I wanted to skip the first year of the course, and I was able to do so by showing my portfolio, in the form of an art station page. In my view, there isn't always a huge about of value in attending a more exclusive school, that requires a portfolio, but even so I would recommend working on your portfolio. The reason for this is because, unlike other industries, a degree can't guarantee work in the art / design industry. So while a formal education can help you develop your skills, ultimately it will be up to you to push yourself, and the earlier you start the better. Thank you again for your kind words, and I really hope that this response is helpful to you. :)
God, I love rigging. Maybe I am suitable for the profession of puppeteer.
Hey that's amazing! Not many people like rigging, so there will always be work for you, whether as a puppeteer, or with digital work :)
Yes waiting for the add-ons 😢😢❤
Hey, no need to wait: here's the video showing how to use it, czcams.com/video/tz4GShhTuh8/video.htmlsi=tDsqDvkUOCGu4AMB The link to the addon is in the description
@@SketchySquirrel thank you so much 💓 I'll tag you as soon as I'm done with it 😊
I love how you made it so smooth, especially with the addition of the uneven surface
Its so awesome! The midway progress kind of reminds me of those greek statues because of the greyscale shading :0
Hi are you into coding and blender addons?
Hey, I wouldn't say I'm "Into" coding addons, but I have dabbled, and I released one that helps automate using action constraints. Why do you ask?
@@SketchySquirrel I just wanted to ask if this is possible to combine with blender in any way possible, if possible, because it will help the community for realistic renders: czcams.com/video/P1IcaBn3ej0/video.htmlsi=uhK6Hru1BQJ5SEBh
@@SketchySquirrel Is there any way we can combine this with blender? If possible in any way. It can help the community for realistic renders - czcams.com/video/P1IcaBn3ej0/video.htmlsi=uhK6Hru1BQJ5SEBh
Hi!!! I have a question! What brushes (kind of brushes) do you use? I'm so impressed, it's so clean and AHH!!! It's amazing to see how far you've come in terms of animating :D, I would love to get into media design/art school one day, but I'm super new to digital art and you're a big inspiration 🫶
It looks way more than good, it looks insane!!!
Thank you so much, your words are very kind. Honestly I don't really remember what brushes I use. I generally just use the default brushes in Krita. In fact recently I've been using simpler and simpler brushes, so at the moment I start with a simple round brush with no size or opacity sensitivity. The limitation helps me focus on fundamentals, which helps to see problems earlier on, and I can add texture later in the process. Thank you again for your kind words. If you want a better explanation of what I've tried to say here, make sure to check out Marco Bucci, if you haven't already heard of him, he makes incredible tutorials on digital and traditional painting. His 10 minutes to better painting series was hugely helpful. :)
Ohhh!!! Wow, thank you so much!!! I get it- I'm also constantly changing my brushes 😅 I guess different ones are good for different pieces, I'll definitely check him out :) honestly in love with your art 🤩
Awesome made love your style.
Do you know how to mask grease pencil objects, with objects in the 3D view port. They always appear in front of them in the render.
Hey, yes, this was really annoying, but it's a simple fix. There's a check box called 'Z pass' that stops this. I found the answer here: www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/ikpo7i/grease_pencil_objects_are_overlapping_everything/?context=3&rdt=63003
@@SketchySquirrel Your method is better b/c you can have moving pictures but I'm sure if you do it like this, you can use it to do cool stuff, b/c you can mix the nodes with a single image after you combine it with the silhouette of the original image and transparency node. czcams.com/video/7a4Grl6hnZ4/video.html
I need more of grease pencil. please more rigging on grease pencil
Now we got Mr springles in grease pencil❤
Each step made it better. Seems like fun to do!
That's badass, my friend.
❤
can you make video on shader nodes and animation in detail
This is fantastic and will make it much easier for those who want to do cutout and rigging animation with Blender's Grease Pencil without going through Blender's lengthy and time-consuming process of doing cutout and rigging animation with Blender's current tools. Question: Are there any plans to update the addon to include features it currently lacks, such as adding full "360 Degree Turns" similar to what you can do in Toon Boom Harmony and Mojo Pro? Blender's Grease Pencil desperately needs improved 2D rigging and cutout animation tools identical to those found in Toon Boom and Moho. Blender does have those tools and is functional, but they could be improved significantly. I apologize for asking since I know you are very busy.
You’re great brother! I hope i can do what you do 😌
Amazing!
Thanks! I recognise you from Ben Eblen's streams, hopefully you can see how I've been influenced by his art. :)
Love it
Looking forward to your next 'real' video.
Dude!
Pretty cool
2 días de sufrimiento pero al final ya que entendí incluso pude añadir controles extra, muchas gracias por esta serie de videos me han ayudado mucho 😅
Please, can you upload the full tutorial. Please ❤🎉