All language subtitles for 03 - Storyboarding with Grease Pencil

- [Instructor] One of the coolest things about

the 2D animation tool inside of Blender

is that it allows you to quickly come up with ideas

and then put them over time

so you can see how they would flow.

Let me show you. Go to File and New, 2D Animation.

Down here at the bottom,

there is a new area that we haven't looked at.

It is called the dope sheet,

and within the dope sheet is an area called grease pencil.

You'll see a little white diamond,

and when you left click on it, it turns orange.

Inside this view, just left click and draw a simple circle.

Now, that's not the best circle on the planet,

but it does its job.

Go ahead and left click and drag this little playhead.

Let's say around 20 or so.

Now draw that circle again

and do your best to keep the shape,

and now let's come over to 40 and do it again.

You can see what's happening here.

As I'm scrubbing the timeline, this drawing

looks like it's animating.

If I go ahead and click on the play button,

you can see that my drawing quickly animated.

There's a lot I can do here.

As I scrub the timeline, you can see that

there is a light green and a light purple kind of drawing

once I let this playhead go.

These are called onion skins,

and you can access this along with many other settings

from your data panel over here.

Scroll down and make sure you've clicked

this little green squiggly line,

and you can see onion skinning,

and I can left click and drag

to show the previous or hide them.

This is purely for a visual aid.

You can even say show more drawings if you'd like.

As you're drawing, you could probably imagine that

you want different colors.

If I scroll up here, you'll see that

we have a few different options.

The first is an arbitrary name called lines and fills.

These are completely arbitrary.

You can double click on this and say rough,

and down here, double click on this one and say final.

Let's go ahead and lock my rough

so I don't accidentally draw on them.

I can also hide them if I'd like.

I'm going to move my playhead over here,

or I can just hit one of these icons.

There we go.

Now, come down to the beach ball.

With this beach ball, I'm given even more settings

that I can play with.

The beach ball is usually your materials tab for 3D objects,

but in 2D, it acts as

the different kinds of brushes or pens that you can use,

but it's not just the brush and the outline.

It also describes the inside as well.

You can turn on either a stroke and have different options,

or you can do a stroke with a fill.

Let's go ahead and do that,

and turn my strength up all the way.

Now, as much as I love my terribly drawn circle,

I'm going to use a circle tool down here at the bottom left.

If you don't see it for any reason,

make sure that you're in draw mode.

Left click and drag,

and you can see I have a circle with two yellow dots.

I can adjust these really quick,

but I have to hit enter to create that circle.

Now, my line type over here says squares,

but I can change this to dots, or just a line,

which is a little bit easier to see.

I can even change the style to a texture image if I want,

but I'll leave it alone for now.

Down here is fill, where I can change the color,

and I can even add a texture to it if I want or a gradient.

I'll just leave it on solid for right now.

Let's come over to 20

and go ahead and make that drawing again.

Remember, you have to hit enter in order to create it.

Let's go to 40,

and I can make my life easier just by hitting this button,

but you'll see that I can't go forward

because I am in the final layer.

So, in this case, I just have to mouse over

and make the drawing, hit enter,

and now I can use these buttons to get all the way up there.

I can't get to 60 though, so I have to do that by hand

because the final layer does not have a drawing in it yet.

Remember to hit enter.

Hit enter,

and you know what?

I'll use my left and right arrow keys to get right to 90.

Add a squished ball, hit enter,

get to 100,

enter, and we'll do one more at 120.

There we go.

Now, let's go ahead and play it.

And there you have it.

You've created a very simple 2D animation or a storyboard.

There's obviously so many more things you can do,

like adding effects to your drawings

or changing what kind of colors that you use

while you're drawing your different strokes and fills.

The 2D animation tool in Blender is incredibly robust,

so I definitely recommend you get in there,

start playing with it,

and see how you can use it in your workflow.