How to use Grease Pencil

04/07/2011
 
 

Hello! I use sometimes the grease pencil, a quite unknown feature of blender, very useful for things like adding references, or annotations to our scene. On this tutorial, I'll show you how to use it for drawing on the 3D View, and even animate that drawings.

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This tool is even more useful when you're working with a team, because it make it easy to mark things, show ideas and things like that on the scene for your coworkers, even they are on the distance :)

Hope you like it! See you!

Level: 
Medium
Tags: 
grease
pencil
blender
tutorial

Comments

Submitted by Terry on Tue, 05/07/2011 - 03:11
Thank you, another great tutorial.
Submitted by overkill on Tue, 05/07/2011 - 16:42

Good details as always. Is the grease pencil only for display in the viewer? Can it be exported to (.png) frames or anything like that (other than a screen-cap)?

The 'DopeSheet' and 'NLA Editor' are a mystery to me. Will that be covered in the Hologram Project (or some future tuts)?

Keep up the good work!

Submitted by oliver villar on Tue, 05/07/2011 - 16:45

Well, you can do it converting the strokes to curves, and add thickness to them so they can be rendered :) And yes, in the hologram project and future tutorials Dopesheet and NLA Editor will be covered ;)

Thanks for the comment!

Submitted by SeriousM on Tue, 05/07/2011 - 18:19
Thank you very much! Havnt known that i can access the animation frames through the dope sheet editor -> greace pencil (is good hidden!)
Submitted by dogcatbeam on Sat, 23/07/2011 - 03:21

Haha,

I like the silly animation!

~Vyee
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Submitted by Carlos Saltos on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 21:41
Hola Oliver como estas muy buen el tuto llevaba tiempo buscando esta info, pero tengo un a pregunta espero me puedas responder ya que imagino estas a full con el tuto del holograma, miré que en el video muestras las teclas que presionas es algún programa o un addon? saludos y éxitos PD: Espero nos puedas ayudar pronto con el proyecto Holograma a las personas que lo compramos. :)
Submitted by oliver villar on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 23:58

Hola, Carlos Saltos! Precisamente acabo de ver el email después de terminar de grabar otro de los capítulos, el holograma ya está muy cerca!!! :D

Para mostrar las teclas en el video utilizo un programa freeware que se llama ShowOff, muy simple, y que deberás editar su apariencia en un editor de texto... pero es bastante intuitivo :) No recuerdo de dónde lo descargué, pues otro seguidor de blendtuts me envió un link por email hace mucho tiempo :S De todas maneras, si buscas ShowOff Keyboard Print o algo así deberías encontrarlo fácilmente :)

Gracias por tu comentario! ;)

Submitted by oliver villar on Wed, 03/08/2011 - 00:04

Efectivamente, lo he encontrado, aquí está ;) ShowOff

Submitted by Carlos Saltos on Wed, 03/08/2011 - 23:30
Perfecto ya lo tengo Gracias Oliver... :)
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Submitted by hashusdın on Tue, 27/09/2011 - 13:27

Süperr!

Submitted by jaypee on Sat, 01/10/2011 - 19:49
Really informative bro its simple and easy, thank you for this tutorial.
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Submitted by jodyg on Sun, 12/02/2012 - 11:23

How to use Grease Pencil - innuendo...? Lol. nice tutorial! =-)

Submitted by rupertrigger on Wed, 16/01/2013 - 17:55
this is a good learning or educational link for us to know about grease pencil. much better or unlike watch drama movies which it will only make us depressed
Submitted by carlletto on Mon, 08/04/2013 - 13:42
Thanks for posting the tutorial for grease pencil. It was simple and understandable and contained all the information on using the tool. You tutorial helped me in understanding the tool to a great extend. Regards.. Outlook address books

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