Blender Grease Pencil Head-Turn Part 1: Drawing
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- čas přidán 14. 07. 2020
- In this video, we will see how to construct the basic objects required for the rig, from sketch to a fully rendered Grease Pencil drawing.
This video is one of four, detailing the character’s creation, from sketch to model, to rig and finally covering my animation workflow.
I have added English subtitles. If you would be willing to translate these into a different language, I would be happy to publish these to help others follow along. If you are able to help, contact me via the email in the 'about' tab: czcams.com/users/sketchysquirr...
Blender 2.83 File:
Google Drive: drive.google.com/file/d/1Mi2Y...
Dropbox: www.dropbox.com/s/ir1eq4dsxwx...
Note: If you have any trouble downloading, please let me know in the comments.
Useful Blender & Grease Pencil Links:
Blender Viewport Navigation Basics: • Viewport Navigation - ...
Grease Pencil Overview (masking not up-to-date): • Grease pencil / Basics...
Grease Pencil Fundamentals: • Grease Pencil Fundamen...
Grease Pencil Animation: • Learn Grease Pencil 2D...
Grease Pencil Rigging: • Grease Pencil Arm Rig ...
Blender Grease Pencil Head Turn Playlist: • Blender Grease Pencil ... - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Fantastic work! Even 3 years later this is super useful, thank you.
Thank you! I'm so glad you are finding it useful!
who the hell give this awesome video 4 dislikes ARE THEY EVEN PAYING ENOUGH ATTENTION THIS IS a GEM FOR BEGINNERS
V.kind comment thank you! :)
BEST SO FAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You'd be surprised at the low level of some trolls. It's their nature. Give them the best tut and they'll downvote it.
I absolutely love this series! Thanks a ton!
Thank you for introducing the production process.
Blender and the world has a new hero: YOU!
Thank you, the rigging video will be out in the next day or two.
@@SketchySquirrel really nice work! Thank you so much!!! We wait for it!
Man you are a legend, totally amazing stuff.
This is incredible! thank you for making these tutorials
Such a beautiful video and work process.
So calm and sensitive.
Amazing! Instantly subscribed, can't wait to see the rest.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES
You have no idea how much I refreshed waiting for this
I hope these help. I have the next few almost ready to post also.
@@SketchySquirrel Nice
Im doing a one week animation challenge and it finishes on sunday (so far I messed up) but Ill be sure to use your techniques in my next animations !
oh my, this is just what i need. thank you so much for making this!
Thank you so much for these tutorials Sketchy Squirrel, they're amazing and much appreciated.
Hey thank you so much for your kind comment. I hope you'll find them useful. Joel
thank God, someone who's actually practical. can't even tell his a beginner... thank yo man.
Thanks for your kind words. I hope it's helpful.
Dude, I gotta say, simple things like using the x axis -1 to mirror your drawing is genius to me lmao , I would always change the perspective from front to back if I wanted to reproduce the mirroring effect .
Glad it was helpful. Hopefully, rigging video will be out early this week.
@@SketchySquirrel That's awesome , cannot wait !
more precious than a diamond for a blender begginer!
Unbelievable .
Thank you for this video.👌👌👌
AMAZING! SIMPLY AMAZING!!!
Thank you, you're very kind.
You are INCREDIBLE! Thanks for these tutorials
Thanks again! You are very welcome.
outstanding
this is wonderful. You have a great teaching style. Thanks for making this tut series- exactly what I was looking to learn.
You're very welcome!
DUDE! You just won a new subscriber! Can't wait for the rigging process
Thanks for the sub! Rigging audio will be done today - hopefully will publish in the next couple of days.
Blender just continues to amaze me!
Ive been using the grease pencil and it's never been any easier to create 2d characters
that looks awesome, great video
Just discovered your channel! You are really talented, and I'm surprised you don't have a larger following. Keep at it! With time you will get there. You just got yourself a new subscriber. Can't wait to go through this course with you :)
very fantastic ... can't wait to see part 2
Thank you, the next video will be out this week.
This is impressive AF, Iv been on blender for years, got the skills then switched off for a bit, now back after like 2 years. Iv barely used grease pencil but dabbled, but these tutorials are maaad good explainers, Just watching this I can completely translate into my own work, Thank you for explaining so clearly.
Great!! thank you !!! and a very expressive and inspiring character by the way.... thanks
You are so kind!
This is the tutorial I was looking for!
What I find most amazing about doing this tutorial is that I have to unlearn everything I know about Photoshop and Harmony. Even though the end result and some of the concepts are familiar, the fact is that Blender is a 3D program in spite of the apparent similarities to Photoshop. The end result might be similar but the way to get there and to conceive of it is totally different.
Thank you so much for this!
Sweet. Looking forward to the rest of the videos. :)
Thanks. I'm just recording the audio for the rigging video today - will publish early this week.
talking slowly and clearly, easy to follow!
you are doing great!!
Thanks for your encouragement!!! Rigging will be out in the next day or two.
Wow this was fast! Already loving it
So glad its useful. I'm just recording the audio for the rigging video today - out "soon" :)
Thank you so much for this series. I've been waiting patiently for this and I'm not disappointed :)
Hope you find them helpful. Thanks for your kind comment!
Awesome...finally!!
This is AMAZING for your first tutorial. I have learned so much from this series. This series has really filled in gaps in grease pencils tutorials with the other tutorials that are out there. THANK YOU SO MUCH! Please keep up the work. I am learning a lot still.
I also really dig your style!
Hey there, thanks for your encouragement. I hope they can help - I'll definitely be playing with Grease Pencil more in the near future.
Thank so much for this tutorial. You're awesome! Looking forward for next part.
You're very welcome! Second one will be out this week. :D
This is what I've been waiting for. Thank you so much!
Thanks, I hope these are helpful.
Oh god u are send by heaven, i searched and waited so long for a nice grease pencil tutorial like u did, pls keep going. Thank u so much for this !
Thank you so much 😀 We can learn together :)
Its good to find a tutorial that's easy to understand. Clear and easier to take in than some of the fast talking ones or where English is a second language. Nothing at all wrong with that, just hard to focus on what's being said sometimes rather than the focus on the tutorial. Thank you!!
Hey Dee, thanks for the encouragement!
Fantastic tutorial ! I'm checking out Blender and the grease pencil now because it looks like a tonne a of fun. Thank you for putting these together and don't be surprised if I leave comments across all your videos haha.
I love it. I've been looking for this kind of video. At last.
Glad you liked it! I hope it helps :)
Awesome!
Thanks! Hope they help.
This is so great to see all the process, thanks so much ! :)
You are so welcome!
I'm really excited about part 2 :-) !!!!
Just posted :)
@@SketchySquirrel yeahhhh
this what i was looking for!!!! thank you so much!!!!🤯❤️❤️
Excellent work, congratulations. I'm in doubt between drawing with Toon Boom Harmony or Blender, but after this video, I'm going to delve deeper into Blender, as it combines 3D, 2D and sculpting. Thank you.
凄いです！！amazing!!
This gives me more hope that I can draw a full scene in blender without a stylus and pad. I'm bad at drawing, but even worse at drawing on a computer with a mouse. I see your cursor moving around as you draw, and can tell it was mouse work. Thank you for this! I almost gave up on my cute little dog cartoon.
Hi there, I'm sorry to say that I did in fact use a graphics tablet for this project, however Blender Grease Pencil does offer many features, such as smoothing, and line and curve tools, that makes drawing with a cursor much easier. Another thing you can do, is to draw on paper, and trace this using these tools. I wish you all the best, I would love to see your dog cartoon :D
@@SketchySquirrel Just to update about the dog cartoon....
I deleted that blender file because the armature of my main character dog had a lot of problems. So many that I was completely unable to fix it. It had something to do with the origins or transforms. I don't even know, at one point I set origin to geometry and that somehow rotated the armature 90° while basically shotgunning my little dogs parts across the canvas and rotating them in various directions and degrees, even though I was only ever in ortho view. I didn't have the dogs lower jaws and tongues done yet anyway. I figured 5 days of work is nothing to a learning curve. I will rebuild an even better set. I will post the video link in another response when I finish.
@@tpros6289 Yeah, rigging can be frustrating, but as you say, every issue is just you figuring it all out. I look forward to it :D
Let me know if you need any help
Yoooooo thanks for the tutorial. I shall do miracles with new knowledge
Thank you.
@@SketchySquirrel No! THANK YOU!
Great video. Thanks for the info. Just subscribed to your channel as I'm getting into the grease pencil having always been very 3D in Blender before. Loving it.)
Thank you so much!!!!
Thanks for watching! Rigging video nearly finished - hopefully out in the next few days.
Sketchy Squirrel Im super excited!
Amazing Tutorial!!! Extremely clear and usefull. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for the encouragement! I really appreciate you taking the time to comment.
Great tutorial! Thanks!
Hey Joakim, thank you for taking the time to comment!
You are awesome
I used to be an animator now I am a programmer trying to get back into animation. Great work. You understand blender and I admire you stepping out and doing such an involved tutorial. I learned from your technique. I would like to see some more. You will always have trolls people who are just negative.
Thanks Jesse, I appreciate it. I would imagine that you would find rigging easier than most, as at times it can feel a lot like programming :)
WHAT...MAGIC...IS THIS???
No magic just illusion :) Thanks for the comment!!!
This is an excellent tutorial. Thank you very much from Argentina!! I`m animation teacher so that is very useful for me and my students. Thank you very much again!!
Hola Rodrigo, thank you for your kind comment. I hope you find the tutorials helpful. Kia ora from New Zealand!
Very nice. thanks.
Thank you too!
awesome tutorial
Glad you liked it, thanks for watching.
Nice!
Thanks
Thank you soooooooo much I'm totally gonna try this out !
I hope it helps, thanks for the comment Sophie Zhou!
You rocks man!
Thanks - rigging video nearly ready to publish.
thats so good great channel!!
Thanks for the encouragement, Daniel. I hope you find it helpful.
@@SketchySquirrel I had a problem while drawing, the thing is when i fill the base colour it covers the sketch and i don't know how to fix it . Thx again
amazing you are my hero
Wow, you are very kind! I'm just recording the audio for the rigging video today - so hopefully I'll have that out in the next wee while.
Thanks this helped a lot😁😁
Glad it helped!
Really nice video
Thank you for your encouraging and kind comment!
this is good.
Thanks!
good timing for making tutorials for blender 2d animation, keep it up
Thanks for the comment. Yes, the Grease Pencil development team are adding to Blender's toolkit more every release. I'm excited to see where this will lead us.
Man,whenever you do every move,please explain it!
great tutorial. thank You. And very nice animations :)
Thank you, you're very kind.
@@SketchySquirrel I have a question if You don't mind. @ 7:44 You said You would use a "soft pencil" but seconds after you paint with a "standard pencil". I have some problem setting a soft pencil (strange patterns) so that's why i am asking
Thank you man..
Thanks for watching! I'm just recording the audio for the rigging video today.
Commenting for the algorithm. Great work .
Thanks so much!
Your a gifted young guy
Thanks for your encouragement!
Thankx!
Welcome!
Nice tutor!
Thank you! Glad you think so!
Thank you.
Thanks for the thank you!
@@SketchySquirrel a lot of tutorials are out of date or really primitive.
You may be a beginner, but you're a lot more clear in 5 mins than pros are in 40
@@truesoundwave That's v.kind... Thanks for your encouragement :)
Sketchy Squirrel, I appreciate the great time and effort you put into making this tutorial series, but after trying it over the past week I can see why there are so few tutorials on this subject. I am actually trying to have a grease pencil object serve as the facial features while using a a 3d head and body, but this method is so error prone and convoluted I can see why there is so few tutorials on this topic.
Hi there. Sorry for the long delay. I know what you mean, grease pencil wasn't designed to be used like this. The way I see it, is the more we use it like this, the more support will be added. Regarding the 2D attached to 3D, this guy seems to have done something like that czcams.com/video/7o5JGXU-V2Y/video.html Perhaps he can help to solve any of those errors you mentioned. Thanks :D
Tres días y voy en 5:56 minutos. Pero aprendiendo mucho. Gracias.
I'm really glad that you like it, and that you're learning. Thanks for the support. :)
translated:
Me alegro mucho de que te guste y de que estés aprendiendo. Gracias por el apoyo. :)
Thank you very much for your educational activities)
This is very inspiring and encourages me to exploits in the field of animation))
(translation made by Google translator)
You are very kind, thanks!
This is fantastic. Can't wait for the future videos. Please do specify that how do you create a slight distance between the various elements of face? I noticed that Nose is slightly ahead of face. Do you use the canvas and move it ahead and back?
In object mode, you press G for move and Y for the y-axis, then move the mouse cursor along until the object is in the desired position.
Thanks for the encouragement, I hope this answered your question.
Thank again :)
Joel
Hey Sketchy Squirrel, your tutorials are among the ones that inspired me to make a very easy to make mouth rig that supports rigify and Rhubarb auto lip sync. I uploaded step by step tutorials for you guys.
Thanks, Mundo, I've watched some of your videos and you've done some really cool rigs. right now I'm trying to figure out how you rigged the IK knees for that rigify character.
@@SketchySquirrel thanks a lot and good luck ! let me know if u need any help :)
you saved me a month of practes
I'm glad. Be sure to share what you make, I'd love to see it. :)
Just finished going through the tutorial and it was fantastic...
Although I'm a bit of a beginner here and sometimes I found it hard to follow what you were doing.
Having Keystrokes appear on the screen while you work would help. Thanks!
I'm glad that you're enjoying it. Yes, thank you for the feedback, I've been adding keystrokes in my more recent videos. :D
@@SketchySquirrel Fantastic, thanks!
The tutorial is very clear explained, but some things you use, you cant find back in older versions like 1.79
Thanks for your comment. Blender is certainly always developing. For these tutorials Blender 2.83 to 2.90.1 have been used, even with this slight version change, the way we apply modifiers, for example, has been reworked. You are quite correct, Grease Pencil has changed enormously from 2.79.
I love you my bro
Huge thank you for the encouraging comment!
Naice
Please do more on Grease Pencil animation tutorals. You are changing the face of Blender
Easier way to flip: change the camera to 1 (front camera) and press control + 1 to flip or 1 to back.
Looking at all the lovely comments you have, not surprised why!! Thank you so much for this
So nice of you to take the time to comment. Thanks!
maan I just need to say I like ur voice its cute
thanks for the turorials btw
@@jaejae4117 Thanks for your encouragement and I'm glad you like my voice, ha! :)
This is great!! When is part 2 coming out?
I have all the video edited... I just need to record the narration.
@@SketchySquirrelThat's great! Thanks!
this is an incredible run through and its helping me alot. I AM A SUUUUUUPER BEGINNER AT BLENDER GP. not gonna lie tho i need more detail, like how did your pencil change the thickness lol, any recommendations for detailed instructions??? or could you revisit this one!!! that would be awesome!!!
Hi there. I'm so glad that it helped. I'm sorry that I couldn't be more in depth. The idea is that I would be able to tackle bigger topics, if I didn't go through step by step. However, I do understand the need for that. So If this series is a bit overwhelming. I've put some links (not all of them work anymore, sorry) in the description of this video. Hopefully they will help get you to a point, where detailed instruction isn't as important. Thanks again, for the comment, and the feedback. :D
OMG OMG I didn't Grease pencil can do that .
Hope it inspires you to use GP in this way.
cute voice
WWOOOOOOOOOWW
Hello!
How did you get to the white workspace? I use a 3.4.1 Blender and going to the 2D Animation workspace and there is an orthographic projection from the camera but no white background.
Have not enough thanks! Your work is great!
Following your tutorial. Just wondering why at time 4:32 when I fill the base color, the sketch in my viewport area cannot be seen but in your case you can still see the sketch.
To keep your sketch visible, either shift the sketch in front on the Y axis, or under the object settings of the sketch object, under the view port display, check "in front". This will mean it will be displayed in front of all objects despite it's position in space. Hope that helps.
@@SketchySquirrel had same issue and your fix worked. Is there a way to make it so the base color that is outside of the outline is nonvisible though ?
This is dope Can u do a full 360 with this plugin
Hi there, Im glad that you like it. I'm not using a plugin, instead im using blender's existing tools to create a head turn functionality. Using this method you CAN create a 360 turn, but, at the cost of higher complexity, to the point that you would be better off spending the time to animate it frame by frame, or create another rig, for the back side of your character. Thanks again for commenting, I hope that this is helpful. :)
@@SketchySquirrel thanks for the help🙏 I'm definitely subscribing
Amazing series 👏🏻 i was looking for something like this.
I want to ask can we make a collection in blender that can stay permanent and we can use it in different projects?
Hi, Yes you can. If you have a file, with a collection of objects, you can import them into another project by pressing file>append then select the file with the objects or rigs etc select the collections folder then the collection that you want.
You can also do this for materials and other sections of a file.
hope this helps, :)
@@SketchySquirrel ok thanks a lot
what did you do at 5:50 ? How did you move the moustach behind the nose?