YES. Been following grease pencil's development for years to see this. I know this is niche stuff, but you're literally the first person I've seen talking about the issues & solutions involved in grease pencil ALL the way around a 3d mesh. Your work is inspiring, your message concise, and your delivery full of charm. THANK YOU! I am beyond excited to see more.
I'm currently working on a project with characters that have Grease Pencil stuff as part of their design along side the model and texture and all that. My solution for this issue was to just hit numpad 5 on the keyboard to switch the camera from perspective to orthographic. Now the distance from the surface of the model would stay the same no matter how much I'd zoom in or out.
were the parts you drew on animated? i have a character where the designs on the torso are grease pencil but when i try to animate the armature the grease pencil acts weird. any solution for this?
I am SO impressed with the tips and tutorials you provide on your channel. Normally I have to really dig through different videos on various channels to find all of the information I need, but you share it all! Thanks so much!
It's probably been said somewhere else in the comments but here's another possible solution: instead of a solidify you could use a displacement modifier with a negative value. It works exactly the opposite way (it pushes the faces inside along their normal) and of course you'd have it disabled during the drawing phase and enabled in rendering. The possible benefit (?) could be a slightly more responsive experience (not having to compute the modifier at draw time) and the ability to add the modifier a the end of the process to a bunch of meshes (in theory you could also achieve the same result entirely in the material without the modifier if you render in cycles) oh and just found this channel but I love the things I've seen so far
I tried this, for some reason when I'm on camera view it still clips. However when I pan out it works perfectly, I'm new to blender so I don't know what to say
That would work, but it's a destructive method. If you wanted to go back and make changes to your Grease Pencil art after shrinking the model you'd either have to scale it back up to exactly the right size or you'd have to keep two copies of the mesh - one for GP work and one for display. The modifier stack, on the other hand, is non-destructive.
Alternatively the "Displace" modifier without a texture does essentially the same as Alt + S but non-destructively, it uniformly displaces vertices based on their normal. Solidify is fine in many cases but it can often destroy uniformity and even glitch out if you overdo it, since your original geometry is essentially duplicated and merged with itself, sharp corners and creases can overlap and mess you up.
You have a very pleasant video personality. This is the perfect video for me, since I want to use Grease Pencil to make small animations and attach those animations to surfaces. Like making a GP animation of a moving mouth or cartoon eyeball and attaching the animation file to a modeled head shape. I think this video has shown me exactly what I was looking for! Keep making videos!
Just got going with Blender. I am doing animation. So far I have learned your technique works. And thanks for that! Quick tip: When animating the sphere, make the strokes a child of the sphere. That way the sphere will be animated, and the GP strokes will stay attached to the sphere as it moves around. Thanks!
Just a heads up that I won't be answering any questions or replying to comments on this video. It's really cool that it's still getting views, but I don't use grease pencil for drawing on 3D objects anymore, and so I really can't offer any more help or guidance!
Not only are you talented and expert, and not only are you great at teaching (even with the inserted bit hehe), but I don't think I'veever seen anyone this relaxed and natural on cam here on UA-cam. I hope in 2021 your channel grows from 111 subscribers to 111,000 subscribers. I'll start you off by becoming subscriber number 112 right now.
WHAT that is such a crazy amazing compliment, thank you! I'm excited to see what happens, there's such a want for grease pencil knowledge and I definitely enjoy trying things and uncovering different ways to do something :) I'm happy you're here!
@@SophieJantak Nothing is more natural than praising th deserving. Yes, I look forward to seeing what else you put out, and I'm sure detailed tutorials by you would be appreciated by both the Blender community and by a more general audience of artists who may not know Blender may be a great tool for them. I've seen some amazing conceptual artists who start off creating a scene and rendering in Blender and then moving on to Photoshop or Krita to create a more painterly look. Oh, and your 3D and line art creations are amazing. I've never seen anything like it. Well, that's enough from me. Carry on! :)
@@kentjensen4504 Thank you! (sorry for the late reply, I've realized youtube doesn't notify me about comment replies!) I've definitely seen some people do amazing things mixing Blender with painting programs, which is awesome, but something that excites me about Blender is the idea of keeping the whole workflow within the program - that's just a different angle I'm trying to take, with my grease pencil brushes and so forth. I'm excited to make tutorials about getting beautiful painterly looks all within Blender :)
@@SophieJantak Yes, I definetely see the appeal of keeping it all within Blender, to become one with the program, so to speak, making it your own amazing super brush. I also love the spirit of free and open source software movement, where right and left, art, entertainment and business, and different generations seem to meet. Maybe the future will be saved by Blender and Linux. I've not been much online lately. I'll check your latest videos. Cheers, Sophie.
ANOTHER TIP: In this solution strokes intersect with the mesh while you draw them. BUT you can avoid this by checking the "In Front" checkbox in object's "Viewport Display" settings. Then you just draw normally)) (You start seeing strokes from the other side of the model, but you can make them a separate layer and hide)
This is really great content. You could do a whole series for traditional media artists and 2d digital artists about how Blender can open up a new world for them! A couple of decades ago I had a project taking the paintings by an artist friend and wrapping them around shapes to create painted environments (in quicktime VR) so you could go inside and travel through them. Sadly the tech was not up to the task, but we still talk about that project. Maybe it is time to try again...
Thank you! I guess I think that's what my channel is, because I can only approach Blender from the POV of a 2d digital/traditional artist, so what I'd really like is for my videos to feel like a way for others like me to jump into Blender. And hopefully the tutorial series I eventually do will also serve that purpose :) What you're describing sounds really cool, I'm not sure I fully understand (did you do this digitally or traditionally?) but if you have the time you should definitely try again with today's technology, I think that sounds awesome
Awesome! I had noticed that the offset was really inconsistent too. This is a brilliant solution 😁 What would be awesome is to see how you do those skeletons, they're beautiful!
@@SophieJantak Oh that'd be cool 😊 Nice videos so far, this in particular will be very helpful when drawing from view. Otherwise the only way it worked for me somewhat was to draw through the camera and move the camera around with lock to view, but still it didn't get the results you're producing.
TIMESTAMPS (because idk why the chapters aren't working...) 0:00 intro 0:28 getting started 2:05 adding a holdout material 3:28 possible solutions and their problems 4:07 my solution!
This technique works great but I'm having and issue with lines showing through the model. Other resources say to turn on "Z" in Layer properties > Passes > Data to have lines hid by models, but when I turn that setting on the lines are once again clipping into the model, even when using the solidify modifier. Is there a fix to this?
I'm new to grease pencil, and this is one of many problems that I encountered. Everytime I get a problem, I got frustrated and wanna bang my head into the wall. Luckily, I found your video. Idk why it motivates me to get back to my unfinished project. Anyway, your art work is remarkable !
Probably not to most on topic, but I'm having a problem with the greae pencil line-art modifier. See, I'm trying to create simple wire-frame UI animations like what we see in classic sci-fi. I make the objects and the world a simple flat RGB black. Then add a colored line-art modifer over it. But no matter what I do, the outline is too dark. Can you help me brighten it up?
You don't need to add a holdout material. What you can do, is in the filter category for the outliner, where the "Restriction Toggles" are at, you'll see a white square with an empty circle inside of it. Turn that on, create a new collection, put the sphere inside of it alone, and then enable the Holdout Toggle so you don't need to add a material. This allows you to keep whatever material is on the sphere now.
Hi Sophie, first, I must tell you, I do enjoy your videos. They are a delight, and full of information. Keep up the good work. Now . . . this one, I thought was going to solve my problem of seeing the back and front at the same time, which can be confusing. I have followed your instructions, and in Shader mode, it looks right, but when I render the scene, I can still see through the sphere. I think I'm using ver. 3.0 or 3.1.
Aw I'm so glad you're here, thanks! So I don't really do 2d animation. I always say I'm not an animator, and so any animations I do are usually just getting Blender to animate for me, such as using the camera to rotate around 3D objects, using the interpolation tool, using the noise modifier, using the build modifier to make it look like grease pencil strokes are getting drawn in. There's a good chance you already know of him but Dedouze approaches grease pencil much more as a 2D animator and also has a great tutorial, so you can check that out :)
Aw thanks! I'll keep in mind that that's something you'd be interested in :) Have you checked out @Dedouze 's beginner grease pencil tutorial? It's a really great resource.
I might just be stupid here but how did you color the turnarounds ? is that simply multiple surfaces of fill material untill it follows the shape well enough or how does that work ? I can't wrap my head around that :P Also, great video! Thanks a lot for this intelligence!
Srinkwrap modifier ? i have just stared learning to draw with GP in blender and this is the first video i have seen of yours, so maybe you have already looked into this, but i find its the best way for me to draw onto objects.
Smart work around. Have you thought of reporting this, frankly , bizzare issue to the blender devs? It really shouldn't need a workaround, but thanks for finding one.
Thanks! I've seen it talked about and from what I can tell it's not a bug? Though it's definitely weird and I don't fully understand it developer.blender.org/T61854
OMG!!! just found you today (im coming from dedouze discord :)), (ofc subscribed:)) you are a blessing!! Thank you for this tutorial! YAS we would love a follow along tutorial, looking forward to it
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! THANKYOUSOMUCH Sophie for this video! I'm starting to learn blender and when I faced the surface on grease pencil I started to freak out, thought I was a denial in Blender 😅 But now I learned how to handle it. Thank you again for making this content available and make me persevere on this incredible software
I tested it here, I didn't like it because the lines "sink" into the sphere, looking like they're missing. I tried two things. First, I selected the sphere and, in object mode, applied Subdivision surface, with "Levels Viewport" and "Render" both set to: 2. I don't know, that actually solved something... Things even improved when I went to Surface and set "Offset" to: 0.028. The lines are a little above the sphere, but they no longer "sink". :D
I'm enjoying your video, Sophie!~ Impressed every time I see it!! I have a question. In the final rendering, the strokes drawn on the back of the mesh are visible through the mesh, but I was wondering how to fix this. I guess I didn't understand this video well..ㅜㅜ
Thank you so much for making such a good explanatory video!!! Your work is so attractive. And your happy energy is overflowing, so I think happiness was contagious the whole time I watched it :) I'm writing comments using a translator because I'm not good at English, so please understand if the context is not smooth. Thank you so much!!
Hey I’m trying to apply the holdout materials for my strokes to be invisible from another side but the strokes on all sides shows anyway in render, is there another way than with the holdout material to both hide the strokes on another side and hide the mesh as well ? Thank you,p v much champion !
I’m glad you’re enjoying my videos! So I probably won’t make a video like this, because I don’t use brush textures - my computer struggled too much the last time I tried, and I really like getting a textured look just by overlapping different kinds of strokes. But it seems like some good stuff comes up if you search for grease pencil textures, I hope you can find what you’re looking for that way
My first thought is you could have two copies of the mesh occupying the same space, scale one up just slightly and make it invisible, but actively draw on the slightly larger mesh. Of course I haven't used grease pencil or even blender all that much, so I could just be talking out of my hat.
That's definitely a good train of thought! I just try to save as many steps as possible, and the only issue with your method is that if you were to change your mesh (and I go back and forth between drawing and sculpting quite regularly) you would need to make a new copy and repeat the process. But with my method you could just make the modifier not appear in edit mode so that there are no extra steps to go from drawing to sculpting :)
Cool Tip Sophie! Btw the "Shrink/Fatten" tool works pretty similar to the solidify modifier but it also scales down your mesh. This only works in edit mode using ALT+S.
Hey .. while iam trying out grease pencil on 3d objects.. my strokes gets overlapped .. I mean when ever I hide my 3d object it doesn't look good.. strokes are visible in every direction.. I don't know how to explain it .😅 Hope u got my point is there any solutions for It..! ? By the way ur tutorials are very helpful 😀 thankyou..
Thank you for your explanation. I just have one problem. At the end when I turn off solidify modifier for Vievport and render. In Viewport it looks OK, but when I render the grease pencil strokes still clip into the mesh?
Hey Sophie! How do you set up your turntables? Do you turn the camera around the object ( in which case how do you handle the background image?) or do you rotate the object itself? I’m finding the mesh with the holdout material isn’t rotating with the GP object, so I’m seeing through both sides. Any thoughts?
2:09 idk if this is helpful or works on the version of blender used in the video but a short 1 minute video said that issue can be remedied by hitting 5 on the number pad. link to the vid: ua-cam.com/video/xLAlFoRPTPM/v-deo.html
Great tutorial!!! By the way, I am good at 3d but really bad at animation part. I want create a block version of my object/human/etc and draw on them for the expression. Does this grease pencil stick to the mesh? or I need to do some funky parenting etc and does it work if I put a bone to it? and sorry for asking, if I want to animate the drawing (expression of a face from normal to smiling), how do I do that?
YES. Been following grease pencil's development for years to see this. I know this is niche stuff, but you're literally the first person I've seen talking about the issues & solutions involved in grease pencil ALL the way around a 3d mesh. Your work is inspiring, your message concise, and your delivery full of charm. THANK YOU! I am beyond excited to see more.
WOW this means so much! Thank you for this, I’m so grateful for the response to my videos and I’m excited to make more
I'm currently working on a project with characters that have Grease Pencil stuff as part of their design along side the model and texture and all that.
My solution for this issue was to just hit numpad 5 on the keyboard to switch the camera from perspective to orthographic. Now the distance from the surface of the model would stay the same no matter how much I'd zoom in or out.
Ohhh interesting! I hadn't heard of that trick before, that's so cool! Thanks for sharing :)
THANK YOU ! :)
Yes, it works, I already knew it. But it doesn't work by moving the bones.
were the parts you drew on animated? i have a character where the designs on the torso are grease pencil but when i try to animate the armature the grease pencil acts weird. any solution for this?
@@noarsy7716 you just have to carefully tweak your bone weights. And yeah, it was a pain to do that.
Actually, I have learnt many from this solution from her. I did not know that and now I’ve decided to learn and use for my project. Thank you so much.
I am SO impressed with the tips and tutorials you provide on your channel. Normally I have to really dig through different videos on various channels to find all of the information I need, but you share it all! Thanks so much!
I love your videos and your personality, I hope your channel explodes in popularity.
Thank you! I wouldn't be opposed to that happening ;)
It's probably been said somewhere else in the comments but here's
another possible solution: instead of a solidify you could use a
displacement modifier with a negative value. It works exactly the
opposite way (it pushes the faces inside along their normal) and of
course you'd have it disabled during the drawing phase and enabled in
rendering. The possible benefit (?) could be a slightly more responsive
experience (not having to compute the modifier at draw time) and the
ability to add the modifier a the end of the process to a bunch of
meshes (in theory you could also achieve the same result entirely in the material without the modifier if you render in cycles)
oh and just found this channel but I love the things I've seen so far
Hey Arturo, actually no one has suggested that before, and that's a really interesting alternative! Thanks for sharing :)
I tried this, for some reason when I'm on camera view it still clips. However when I pan out it works perfectly, I'm new to blender so I don't know what to say
3:53 What if you use `alt + s` to shrink/fatten the model instead of scaling it? Btw, very cool intro skeleton animations👍
I didn’t know about that, that could work too! I’ll pin your comment so people can see and try it out for themselves
@@SophieJantak Nice!
That would work, but it's a destructive method. If you wanted to go back and make changes to your Grease Pencil art after shrinking the model you'd either have to scale it back up to exactly the right size or you'd have to keep two copies of the mesh - one for GP work and one for display.
The modifier stack, on the other hand, is non-destructive.
Alternatively the "Displace" modifier without a texture does essentially the same as Alt + S but non-destructively, it uniformly displaces vertices based on their normal. Solidify is fine in many cases but it can often destroy uniformity and even glitch out if you overdo it, since your original geometry is essentially duplicated and merged with itself, sharp corners and creases can overlap and mess you up.
@@SophieJantak I like this method the most. If you always use the same amt of shrinking, no worries
Thank you so much for your tutorials, you're saving my brain from exploding! I will follow aaaalll your tutorials to become a Blender master
thank you Sophie . I got what I need from your tutorials . . . . . thank youuuuuu
The way you use blender is impressive.
Thank you!
Best tutorial I've seen in a long time. Awesom art too! Thanks a lot.
That means a lot, thank you!
You have a very pleasant video personality. This is the perfect video for me, since I want to use Grease Pencil to make small animations and attach those animations to surfaces. Like making a GP animation of a moving mouth or cartoon eyeball and attaching the animation file to a modeled head shape. I think this video has shown me exactly what I was looking for!
Keep making videos!
Thank you! And that is definitely such a cool application of grease pencil, I'd be interested to see what you create with it
Just got going with Blender. I am doing animation. So far I have learned your technique works. And thanks for that!
Quick tip: When animating the sphere, make the strokes a child of the sphere. That way the sphere will be animated, and the GP strokes will stay attached to the sphere as it moves around.
Thanks!
Just a heads up that I won't be answering any questions or replying to comments on this video. It's really cool that it's still getting views, but I don't use grease pencil for drawing on 3D objects anymore, and so I really can't offer any more help or guidance!
Would you come back for one last job?
Wow, my apologies I didn't see this message before reaching out with a question. I'm sure I'll be able to figure it out.
Not only are you talented and expert, and not only are you great at teaching (even with the inserted bit hehe), but I don't think I'veever seen anyone this relaxed and natural on cam here on UA-cam. I hope in 2021 your channel grows from 111 subscribers to 111,000 subscribers. I'll start you off by becoming subscriber number 112 right now.
WHAT that is such a crazy amazing compliment, thank you! I'm excited to see what happens, there's such a want for grease pencil knowledge and I definitely enjoy trying things and uncovering different ways to do something :) I'm happy you're here!
@@SophieJantak Nothing is more natural than praising th deserving. Yes, I look forward to seeing what else you put out, and I'm sure detailed tutorials by you would be appreciated by both the Blender community and by a more general audience of artists who may not know Blender may be a great tool for them. I've seen some amazing conceptual artists who start off creating a scene and rendering in Blender and then moving on to Photoshop or Krita to create a more painterly look. Oh, and your 3D and line art creations are amazing. I've never seen anything like it. Well, that's enough from me. Carry on! :)
@@kentjensen4504 Thank you! (sorry for the late reply, I've realized youtube doesn't notify me about comment replies!) I've definitely seen some people do amazing things mixing Blender with painting programs, which is awesome, but something that excites me about Blender is the idea of keeping the whole workflow within the program - that's just a different angle I'm trying to take, with my grease pencil brushes and so forth. I'm excited to make tutorials about getting beautiful painterly looks all within Blender :)
@@SophieJantak Yes, I definetely see the appeal of keeping it all within Blender, to become one with the program, so to speak, making it your own amazing super brush. I also love the spirit of free and open source software movement, where right and left, art, entertainment and business, and different generations seem to meet. Maybe the future will be saved by Blender and Linux. I've not been much online lately. I'll check your latest videos. Cheers, Sophie.
As soon as you mentioned the solidify modifier, I knew where you were going with it. Clever!
I'll probably use this, thanks!
ANOTHER TIP: In this solution strokes intersect with the mesh while you draw them. BUT you can avoid this by checking the "In Front" checkbox in object's "Viewport Display" settings. Then you just draw normally)) (You start seeing strokes from the other side of the model, but you can make them a separate layer and hide)
Whoa! I had this issue for while and couldn't find a solution. Thanks a lot!
this worked!
This is amazing! Wow thank you! Please keep the grease pencil stuff coming! Thank you 🙏
I’m so happy you appreciate it! I really enjoy making these so more are coming :)
thank you, we love u sophie!!!
GREAT!!THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!! 😃
I've been struggling for a while now to find a solution and this works great
👌🏾💯
I'm so glad to hear it! :D
You made me happier!
This is really great content. You could do a whole series for traditional media artists and 2d digital artists about how Blender can open up a new world for them! A couple of decades ago I had a project taking the paintings by an artist friend and wrapping them around shapes to create painted environments (in quicktime VR) so you could go inside and travel through them. Sadly the tech was not up to the task, but we still talk about that project. Maybe it is time to try again...
Thank you! I guess I think that's what my channel is, because I can only approach Blender from the POV of a 2d digital/traditional artist, so what I'd really like is for my videos to feel like a way for others like me to jump into Blender. And hopefully the tutorial series I eventually do will also serve that purpose :) What you're describing sounds really cool, I'm not sure I fully understand (did you do this digitally or traditionally?) but if you have the time you should definitely try again with today's technology, I think that sounds awesome
This was awesome thank you Sophie you are too kind and funny.
Thank you for this tutorial! Simple and straight to the point. Much appreciated!
Yooo! Thanks for the awesome vid! Really appreciate the in depth descriptions of ur workflow. Would love a ‘let’s make this’ series!
I've searching for this for days!
You're a life saver.
And keep them coming.
I’m so glad it came at a good time! I too have searched far and wide for this answer, so I knew I had to share my discovery
I feel like you’re talking a whole different language but it’s FASCINATING
Haha thank you Maiga! I know I enjoy watching people talk about the things they love that I don’t understand at all, just for their excitement
thank you for the video! was looking for a grease pencil one!
Awesome! I had noticed that the offset was really inconsistent too. This is a brilliant solution 😁 What would be awesome is to see how you do those skeletons, they're beautiful!
Thank you so much, I’m glad it helps! Working towards an animated skeleton tutorial actually, so I’m glad to know that’s something you’d want
@@SophieJantak Oh that'd be cool 😊 Nice videos so far, this in particular will be very helpful when drawing from view. Otherwise the only way it worked for me somewhat was to draw through the camera and move the camera around with lock to view, but still it didn't get the results you're producing.
I've learned SOOO much from your videos, Sophie. Thanks for making these awesome tutorials :)
Aw that means so much to hear! :)
TIMESTAMPS (because idk why the chapters aren't working...)
0:00 intro
0:28 getting started
2:05 adding a holdout material
3:28 possible solutions and their problems
4:07 my solution!
That is brilliant.
We love blender 💙
Me too!
You have no dislikes on this video, you should be proud of yourself :3
New to Grease Pencil and you are awesome!
Thank you! Best of luck learning grease pencil :D
This technique works great but I'm having and issue with lines showing through the model. Other resources say to turn on "Z" in Layer properties > Passes > Data to have lines hid by models, but when I turn that setting on the lines are once again clipping into the model, even when using the solidify modifier. Is there a fix to this?
Thank you! Really helped me in my work!
I'm so glad it hear it!
Thanks Sophie! This was super helpful
Happy it helped!
You're good at this, look forward to more!
Thank you!
Thank you for explanation, Sophie! SuperMegaCool tutorial! )
Very Helpful! Thanks!
I'm new to grease pencil, and this is one of many problems that I encountered. Everytime I get a problem, I got frustrated and wanna bang my head into the wall. Luckily, I found your video. Idk why it motivates me to get back to my unfinished project.
Anyway, your art work is remarkable !
Thank you! hooo boy do I know the feeling of wanting to banging your head into a wall while trying to learn Blender!! I'm glad my videos can help :)
wow, wonderful! Thanks for sharing
GENIUSSSSS!!!!!
Brilliant - thank you!
Nice! Really smart solution. :)
Great, thank you. I have to try.
Probably not to most on topic, but I'm having a problem with the greae pencil line-art modifier. See, I'm trying to create simple wire-frame UI animations like what we see in classic sci-fi. I make the objects and the world a simple flat RGB black. Then add a colored line-art modifer over it. But no matter what I do, the outline is too dark. Can you help me brighten it up?
You don't need to add a holdout material. What you can do, is in the filter category for the outliner, where the "Restriction Toggles" are at, you'll see a white square with an empty circle inside of it.
Turn that on, create a new collection, put the sphere inside of it alone, and then enable the Holdout Toggle so you don't need to add a material. This allows you to keep whatever material is on the sphere now.
what do you mean by that last part to keep the material?
I'm trying to do exactly that but it's not keeping any materials on the 3d objects
@@SwagHyde Watch this video: ua-cam.com/video/JpdmneLtlXQ/v-deo.html
thx for a really helpful tutorial🔥
I'm happy it's helpful!
this is awesome!
very very very good trick.
such a pleasant video
I'm glad!
You seem super lovely and you explain everything very well! Thank you for this tutorial! We want more!
Aw wow thank you Maria! I have lots more on my channel and more to come, I hope my videos continue to be helpful :D
This is amazing! Loved the offset and holdout material tip, and look forward to seeing process videos. Subscribed!
Thank you! I’m glad it was helpful
I rendered the image with a holdout material on the sphere and the lineart was visible through the object :(
Nice trick!!!
You are the living ^w^ face. It was super adorable XD
Hi Sophie, first, I must tell you, I do enjoy your videos. They are a delight, and full of information. Keep up the good work. Now . . . this one, I thought was going to solve my problem of seeing the back and front at the same time, which can be confusing. I have followed your instructions, and in Shader mode, it looks right, but when I render the scene, I can still see through the sphere. I think I'm using ver. 3.0 or 3.1.
This worked great!
And it is still viable in Blender 3.0 final
Yay so glad to hear it!
This is just what I was looking for, thanks for sharing! BTW, your work is awesome, really like the art style!
Glad to have stumbled upon yr Chanel. Would be very interested in how you do 2d animation in blender. Lovely tutorials- thankyou.
Aw I'm so glad you're here, thanks! So I don't really do 2d animation. I always say I'm not an animator, and so any animations I do are usually just getting Blender to animate for me, such as using the camera to rotate around 3D objects, using the interpolation tool, using the noise modifier, using the build modifier to make it look like grease pencil strokes are getting drawn in. There's a good chance you already know of him but Dedouze approaches grease pencil much more as a 2D animator and also has a great tutorial, so you can check that out :)
0:10
"and never left"
Me: Another poor soul has became a victim of Grease Pencil :(
Me encantó tu tutorial
Could you please come up with a beginners guide to grease pencil... You look and sound like a great teacher :)
Aw thanks! I'll keep in mind that that's something you'd be interested in :) Have you checked out @Dedouze 's beginner grease pencil tutorial? It's a really great resource.
Really cool style relax tutorial. Wish you the best on your online adventure !
Aw thank you so much! I'm glad you like the tutorial style :)
This is so cool! I love your art work and style. Thank you for sharing, I'm looking forward to seeing more :D
Aw thanks! I'm so happy you're here :)
Thank you so much!
Thanks for this! Subbed!
Whatever is in that Kombucha, I want some! You are a great teacher with great energy!
I might just be stupid here but how did you color the turnarounds ? is that simply multiple surfaces of fill material untill it follows the shape well enough or how does that work ? I can't wrap my head around that :P Also, great video! Thanks a lot for this intelligence!
Heehee well I'm actually editing a video now that will explain just that! Look out for that this Thursday ;)
really great video.
Aw thanks I'm glad you like it!
Srinkwrap modifier ? i have just stared learning to draw with GP in blender and this is the first video i have seen of yours, so maybe you have already looked into this, but i find its the best way for me to draw onto objects.
FUNNY , USEFULL AND HONEST TUTORIAL :))))
Aw hey thanks!!!
Smart!
This helps a lot! Thanks great stuff
Smart work around. Have you thought of reporting this, frankly , bizzare issue to the blender devs? It really shouldn't need a workaround, but thanks for finding one.
Thanks! I've seen it talked about and from what I can tell it's not a bug? Though it's definitely weird and I don't fully understand it developer.blender.org/T61854
OMG!!! just found you today (im coming from dedouze discord :)), (ofc subscribed:)) you are a blessing!! Thank you for this tutorial! YAS we would love a follow along tutorial, looking forward to it
Thank you so much! Glad you found my channel :D
amazing art , good that i found your channel
Thank you! I'm glad you're here :)
@@SophieJantak me too lol
nice idea
I love you Sophie!!!
First time viewer, this is super and also you're very likeable! And your art is beautiful! Subbed
JUST found your channel with this video. Love the feel of your art and what you do. Thank you for guiding others.
tl/dw
surface offset to zero
use displace or solidify to offset surface and bring strokes higher.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! THANKYOUSOMUCH Sophie for this video! I'm starting to learn blender and when I faced the surface on grease pencil I started to freak out, thought I was a denial in Blender 😅 But now I learned how to handle it. Thank you again for making this content available and make me persevere on this incredible software
useful tip. Cheers!
Glad it helps!
I tested it here, I didn't like it because the lines "sink" into the sphere, looking like they're missing. I tried two things. First, I selected the sphere and, in object mode, applied Subdivision surface, with "Levels Viewport" and "Render" both set to: 2. I don't know, that actually solved something...
Things even improved when I went to Surface and set "Offset" to: 0.028. The lines are a little above the sphere, but they no longer "sink". :D
thank you
I'm enjoying your video, Sophie!~ Impressed every time I see it!! I have a question. In the final rendering, the strokes drawn on the back of the mesh are visible through the mesh, but I was wondering how to fix this. I guess I didn't understand this video well..ㅜㅜ
Thank you so much for making such a good explanatory video!!! Your work is so attractive.
And your happy energy is overflowing, so I think happiness was contagious the whole time I watched it :)
I'm writing comments using a translator because I'm not good at English, so please understand if the context is not smooth. Thank you so much!!
Thank you
Hey I’m trying to apply the holdout materials for my strokes to be invisible from another side but the strokes on all sides shows anyway in render, is there another way than with the holdout material to both hide the strokes on another side and hide the mesh as well ? Thank you,p v much champion !
Hey Sophie big fan of your channel, any chance you could do a video on custom brush textures for grease pencil?
I’m glad you’re enjoying my videos! So I probably won’t make a video like this, because I don’t use brush textures - my computer struggled too much the last time I tried, and I really like getting a textured look just by overlapping different kinds of strokes. But it seems like some good stuff comes up if you search for grease pencil textures, I hope you can find what you’re looking for that way
My first thought is you could have two copies of the mesh occupying the same space, scale one up just slightly and make it invisible, but actively draw on the slightly larger mesh. Of course I haven't used grease pencil or even blender all that much, so I could just be talking out of my hat.
That's definitely a good train of thought! I just try to save as many steps as possible, and the only issue with your method is that if you were to change your mesh (and I go back and forth between drawing and sculpting quite regularly) you would need to make a new copy and repeat the process. But with my method you could just make the modifier not appear in edit mode so that there are no extra steps to go from drawing to sculpting :)
@@SophieJantak - Well good work, will definitely keep that in mind when I start using it more.
Cool Tip Sophie! Btw the "Shrink/Fatten" tool works pretty similar to the solidify modifier but it also scales down your mesh. This only works in edit mode using ALT+S.
THANK YOU! I was looking for a modifier that did the opposite of the solidify modifier, so this is great know!
Hey .. while iam trying out grease pencil on 3d objects.. my strokes gets overlapped .. I mean when ever I hide my 3d object it doesn't look good.. strokes are visible in every direction.. I don't know how to explain it .😅 Hope u got my point is there any solutions for It..! ? By the way ur tutorials are very helpful 😀 thankyou..
Thank you for your explanation. I just have one problem. At the end when I turn off solidify modifier for Vievport and render. In Viewport it looks OK, but when I render the grease pencil strokes still clip into the mesh?
Hey Sophie! How do you set up your turntables? Do you turn the camera around the object ( in which case how do you handle the background image?) or do you rotate the object itself? I’m finding the mesh with the holdout material isn’t rotating with the GP object, so I’m seeing through both sides. Any thoughts?
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idk if this is helpful or works on the version of blender used in the video but a short 1 minute video said that issue can be remedied by hitting 5 on the number pad.
link to the vid:
ua-cam.com/video/xLAlFoRPTPM/v-deo.html
Great tutorial!!! By the way, I am good at 3d but really bad at animation part. I want create a block version of my object/human/etc and draw on them for the expression. Does this grease pencil stick to the mesh? or I need to do some funky parenting etc and does it work if I put a bone to it? and sorry for asking, if I want to animate the drawing (expression of a face from normal to smiling), how do I do that?
This is genius haha. Crazy that it requires such a goofy workaround in the first place.
Thank you!