Blender for Beginners

Overview

“Grease Pencil is a new option to make 2D animations within the same program. It also allows you to use 3D objects to generate more complex animations. Here I will give you a brief introduction so you can do it.”

In this video lesson Carlos Sifuentes Haro addresses the topic: 2D animation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 4: Animation Basics. Animating your objects in 2D and 3D.

Partial transcription of the video

“INTRODUCTION TO BLENDER / COURSE 4 LESSON 7 2D Animation Now we’ll take a basic look at how to create 2D animations in Blender. Let's get started. The first thing we have to do is go to the Grease Pencil workspace. If we don’t see it here, we can go to the 2D Animation drop-down. We have two options: 2D Full Canvas or 2D Animation. We’ll create a 2D Animation. It will give us a space like this by default. We have the white background, and if we don’t have it, we’ll change it to Solid here in the Viewport Shading menu. We can also take the other one, which says Full Canvas. In this workspace...”

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Course summary for: Course 4: Animation Basics

• Level: Beginner
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