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BONUS CONTENT: Click for downloads of my .Blend files, a download of this tutorial, and access to a REALTIME version of this tutorial! TIMESTAMPS 0:00 intro 2:08 help with LAG 3:10 make your first stroke! 3:27 Section 0. Blender’s interface 7:21 Section 1. Convert grease pencil to mesh 12:38 Section 2. Convert mesh to grease pencil 15:04 Section 3. Stroke placement: Stroke 24:27 Section 4. Stroke placement: Origin 29:49 Section 5. Stroke placement: 3D cursor 37:06 Section 6. Stroke placement: Surface 45:00 Section 7. Finalizing 49:13 Section 8. Exporting 55:31 final touches Detailed breakdown of the tutorial: Section 0. Blender’s interface TOPICS COVERED 3D viewport Timeline (auto-keying) Scene collection Properties (active tool) How to move around in 3D space Section 1. Convert grease pencil to mesh TOPICS COVERED Grease pencil layers (rename, remove a layer) About the different modes (Object, Draw, Edit) Mesh modifiers (skin modifier) Solid view mode, X ray mode Edit Mode (clean up vertices, move and resize vertices, proportional editing) Section 2. Convert mesh to grease pencil TOPICS COVERED Grease pencil materials (the different types, change types, change colours) Section 3. Stroke placement: Stroke Drawing plane: View TOPICS COVERED Grease pencil materials (change colour using the eyedropper) Layers (add a new layer, autolock inactive layers) Stroke depth other (3D location) Brushes (change brush, toggle pen pressure, change radius) Sculpt mode (grab/pull tools) Edit mode (lasso select, move and rotate selection, delete strokes) Grease pencil modifiers (Tint, influence) Section 4. Stroke placement: Origin Drawing plane: Front TOPICS COVERED Origin (how to transform and reset it) 3D cursor (make it visible) World origin Vertex paint (changing colours, add and remove colours from the palette) Brush (change opacity) Section 5. Stroke placement: 3D cursor Drawing plane: Side, Top, Cursor, View TOPICS COVERED 3D cursor (how to place it) Vertex paint (hue randomization) Section 6. Stroke placement: Surface Drawing plane: view TOPICS COVERED Add a new object (sphere, grease pencil blank) How to Move, scale and rotate along specific axes 3D cursor (move to world origin) Layers (reorder, copy to another object, mask) Stroke depth order (2D layers) Section 7. Finalizing TOPICS COVERED Grease pencil modifiers (thickness, tint: gradient, noise, influence (pass index, reverse), share modifiers between objects) Section 8. Exporting TOPICS COVERED Create a seamless turnaround animation View Lock (camera to view) Empty (plain axes) Parenting (camera to empty, grease pencil layer) Timeline (grease pencil keyframes, move keyframes, dopesheet) SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: Twitter: Portfolio: Blog: (Yes it's just my name everywhere haha) Equipment I use… TO DRAW Wacom cintiq (I was VERY lucky to buy one second hand!) Wacom intuos pro medium Blender TO MAKE VIDEOS OBS for screen recording My webcam to film my face Zoom H1 Handy recorder for audio HitFilm Express (free version) to edit iPad and procreate for the thumbnails
