The Grease Pencil doesn’t only combine 2D with 3D, but it has an onion-skin display mode to enhance your drawing process and a layer management system for an organized workflow. It has advanced features in animation, modeling, compositing and rigging.
It’s a cross platform tool integrated in the 3D package itself, that you can run on Windows, Mac or Linux. It’s a unique Blender object composed of points, edit lines and a stroke, allowing you to create two dimensional drawings directly in the 3D viewport. When it comes to this specific matter, the Grease Pencil is the technology that lies behind creating 2D art in a 3D environment. And above all, it’s one of the most closely updated and developed, aiming to widen the range of the sub-fields that it could be used for: such as character creation, concept art, Arch Viz and even 2D animation. If not, we’ve posted before about what is Blender used for and we often talk about Blender addons in our blog if you want extensive information.
33 3.3 The Cutter Tool.You probably heard of Blender thanks to its active adoption in the 3D art industry, since it’s known to be one of the best free and open-source 3D packages out there. 21 2.7 Mixing Colors.23 2.8 Texture Strokes. 20 2.6 Stroke Colors - Vertex Color Mode. 17 2.4 Stroke Lines and Fill.19 2.5 Stroke Colors - Material Color Mode. 15 2.1 Drawing a Stroke.15 2.2 Drawing a Stroke (Continued). 10 1.11 Editor Controls – Buttons, Icons and Sliders. 6 1.7 The Transition to 2D Drawing.6 1.8 Changing to the 2D Animation Workspace.9 1.9 The 2D Animation Workspace.9 1.10 The 2D Viewport Editor. 1 1.3 The 3D Animation Workspace.3 1.4 Drawing with the Grease Pencil. 1 1.1 The Graphical User Interface (GUI).
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