Grease Pencil Tips and Tricks to Master 2D Workflow | Blender Tutorial for beginners | Full Course!

This beginner friendly blender tutorial will teach you ALL important things about 2D GREASE PENCIL animation tool in a time efficient and fast way. Grease Pencil is a very powerful 2D tool in Blender that you can use to create 2D animations / digital art / storyboards / animatics / motion graphics and MANY more. All in a 3D environment. Possibilities are ENDLESS!  Best way to support this channel! https://blendermarket.com/creators/dantti Patreon https://www.patreon.com/c/danttiyt Cool Blender stuff https://dantti.gumroad.com CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction User experience 01:07 Object interaction modes 02:49 Pie menu for object modes 03:26 Pie menu for shading modes 03:51 2D animation preset and why it’s great 04:24 How to customize 2D animation preset 05:44 Saving startup file & load factory settings 06:21 Quick favorites and search menus Draw mode 06:56 Draw mode shortcuts 09:22 Timeline shortcuts 10:49 Materials and vertex colors 12:14 Brushes and how to append more 12:54 Stroke materials 13:52 Fill materials 15:02 Holdout materials 15:40 Fill, erase, cutter 16:19 Brush settings 17:31 Stroke settings 18:29 Extra modes 19:07 Stroke origin and drawing plane 20:29 How to use Guides 21:13 How to use Curve tool 21:41 Subdivisions 22:44 Layers overview 23:53 Layers & Masking 24:44 Layers & Onion skinning 25:23 Layers & Strokes in 2D / 3D space Edit mode 25:41 Edit mode shortcuts 27:25 Curve edit mode 28:31 Gradients and better way to edit them 29:29 Assign materials 30:05 Extrude points 30:31 Transform pivot point 31:08 Proportional editing 32:00 Separate points to own objects 32:22 Cleaning 32:53 Reproject strokes 33:48 OLD WORKFLOW - WATCH NEW TUTORIAL: Animating with Interpolate / Sequence 35:45 Multiframe editing Sculpt mode 36:25 All tools and tips Object mode 39:32 Object mode shortcuts 40:34 Align objects 41:07 Snapping 41:57 Transform values 43:09 Randomize transformation 43:53 Origin point and how to move it 44:27 Keyframes & graph editor 48:09 Collections & Outliner 50:18 Duplicate Linked 51:29 Camera settings 52:58 Multiple cameras in your scene Modifiers 53:45 Adding, copying and removing modifiers 54:58 Array modifier 56:13 Build modifier 58:05 Mirror modifier & Canvas settings 58:41 Multiple strokes modifier 59:17 Simplify & Subdivide modifier 59:57 Armature modifier 1:00:56 Lattice & Hook modifier 1:03:33 Noise modifier 1:04:03 Offset modifier 1:04:22 Smooth modifier 1:04:48 Thickness modifier 1:05:06 Time offset modifier (Loops & Lip syncing tip) 1:06:36 Hue & Saturation modifier 1:07:00 Opacity modifier 1:07:38 Texture mapping modifier 1:08:50 Tint (Gradients with empty objects) Effects 1:09:45 All grease pencil effects overview 1:12:15 Glitch effect with Wave Distortion Constraints 1:12:44 Floor constraint 1:13:50 Track to constraint 1:14:41 Follow path constraint 1:15:44 Maintain volume constraint 1:16:26 Easy parallax setup using constraints Miscellaneous 1:18:01 Camera background for image & video 1:19:19 Convert images & video to grease pencil 1:21:02 Convert 3D animation & mesh to grease pencil 1:21:59 Convert curves for interesting grease pencil shapes 1:22:52 Drivers explained 1:25:08 Adding sound to your projects 1:26:36 Render settings 1:30:28 Compositing 1:31:45 Addons (Rotate canvas, Box deform) & how to installing more 1:33:34 Grease Pencil Texture Brushes and Fills 1:33:52 Final tips & wrapping up Using Grease pencil with PARTICLE SYSTEMS does work! I have made tutorials about it, but there will be some changes in the near future (particle nodes) so I left them out of this. Blender Fundamentals (official) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa1F2ddGya_-UvuAqHAksYnB0qL9yWDO6 Support the Blender development at https://fund.blender.org/ Note: This tutorial was recorded mostly using Blender 2.91 and 2.92 Most tips still valid today (2024) With these tips you can easily be a great grease pencil artist like dedouze, sophie jantak, blender grease monkey, team miracles, kevandram, marco bucci etc! Tags: #Greasepencil, #b3d