Hey folks - this video is part 3 of a series! Check out the rest of the tutorial here -- Part 1: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p9yniLNm3tDJmqc.html Part 2: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hcqfipyizN20lmg.html

It blows my mind what the blender devs do for artists. It's amazing.

dude this is so amazing, I can't believe I'm getting this knowledge for free!

this is genuinely such valuable content for artists. there are so many programs and functions in them that are hard to get a grasp of alone. i always wanted to do more animation but csp has been limiting and difficult for that , for me. so i will definitely give this a shot.

This is the shortest video ever that explain all of the 2D and 2.5D animation at the highest level production quality.

I am currently deep learning Blender so I can re-insert myself in the market as a 3d specialist, but in all honesty what I always wanted to do was 2d animation. This video series assure me I'm on the right path with Blender, and that the program already has everything you could possibly need to create 2d/3d animation - you just need to master it throughly to know what to use and when. Thanks.

Really nice! Just in case you didn't know or anyone else was wondering you can skip the whole rendering to different folders by using render layers and multilayer exr files. Definitely something you should explore if you haven't already. Saves a ton of time :)

Great video as always Marco, loved this video series! Just a suggestion, you can actually add blur to grease pencil objects which uses depth of field. Just select blur as an effect on the GP object and check " Use Depth of Field" :)

WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT TRYING BLENDER ANIMATION AND THIS LEGEND POSTED

You do not have to scale the entire scene to get more blur. In the properties panel you can increase the camera sensor size in millimetres, and change the focal length accordingly to keep the same field of view. That will give you more blur.

Truly stunning work! I started combining 2D and 3D elements in Blender back in 2017 when Blenders features weren't quite there yet but seeing the software increase it's potential and seeing it used like this is inspiring!

Good tutorial! Small but super important note though @ 15:52: there's no reason to remove compression on PNG files, they use lossless compression so the file gets smaller without losing any information, unlike the lossy compression of JPEGs. The slider controls the balance between compression effectiveness and speed, and the default value is very good, so it's best left alone unless you want to fill up your hard drive!

The amount of work that went into merely 4 seconds is crazy.

Great video. Just a quick note: You can literally drag an image from a folder into the Blender window and it will automagically make it an image plane for you. (Or... you can simply select background images in your camera tab and choose the file from there).

I've Blender'ed for ages, made instructions, videos, etc - this is a remarkable and delightful thorough look at GP that doesn't insult and just feeds tons of inspiration and a shocking amount of knowledge really quickly and it's entertaining as well. Product is pretty far out of my price range but this video is an A+ in the Blender-sphere. A much deserved sponsorship, sir.

6:42 all that is not necesary, just click on the "show overlays" button on the top right corner, theres going to be an option called "fade objects" and that is pretty mkuch all you gotta do, as long as youre in draw mode every other object in scene will fade, which is easier than individualy modify every object and it doesnt show in renders so you can do it in your main scene itself

I just have to say that these have easily been three of the most inspiring and informative grease pencil/Blender tutorials I’ve had the pleasure of watching……awesome stuff!

Unbelievably, this is better instruction than I got in all of uni. Thanks for doing this. Brilliant work.

It motivated me as well as reminded me that how much knowledge and practise i will need to create something. I just need a good teacher for this .

Marc, you've made a very applicable and comprehensive guide of animating 2d and 3d mixed animations. Thank you.

I've been learning to use Krita and davinci resolve and always had an interest in blender, but i didn't realize blender could do everything in one, just with a bit more info on screen! Gonna be sure to check the previous parts, thank you for making it so simple and intuitive to learn!

if everyone could draw like him, this world would be better

It's great to see the unpaid intern back! :-D

Thanks Marco for researching this topic for us. You are one of the best educators I know on the internet. You have a great ability to impart knowledge. I think that even if you were to study quantum physics, I would be watching you. Your ability to penetrate the topic, understand it, extract essence and serve it in an accessible way is UNIQUE.

Absolutely awesome work Marco! You are a great animator and I found this video very insightful. One tip for you though to save you a tedious job of re-rendering for every collection. In the top right hand side of the screen you will see a thing called "view layer". Create as many view layers as you have seperate collections you want to render. Make sure you rename them according to which collection is active. You can choose which ones are active by selecting the tick box next to the collection. Then in compositing, you can delete the viewer node, the only one thats left will be the Render Layers node. At the bottom of the node will be the View Layer which is set to render (as standard is called view layer but this will be whatever you have renamed the view layer to be). Add a 'File Output' node from the image out and change the file destination. Then duplicate the Render Layer Node and the file output node together, change the View Layer to the next one, update the file output to another destination folder and repeat for all collections. Then when you hit render, it will render as many times as you have render layers without you having to do it manually each time! Hope that made sense!

You can also use the ViewLayers in the top right of the window, plus the file output nodes in compositing, so you can save your different layers separately (or have all your layers in a single file, to separate and composite later)! Great tutorials, appreciate how it goes into theory as well as implementation.

And there is a super quick workaround for using depth of field on grease pencil. You can select blur effect from the visual effect properties . There, if you just select the "Use Depth of Field" it will enable you to use the DOF of your camera. Works like a charms! Nevertheless this is such a valuable lesson on compositor and a showcase of how awesome blender is for 2d artists! :D

I have watched many channels/videos and many Great artists but you are THE BEST Tutor I have come across! I lift my hat to you!

i can not believe i watch full video in did not get bored .. how much you are good teacher

@Marco Bucci you are awesome. I leave here some comments. By default Blender uses 'Automatic' as keyframe type. Instead of going to the Graph Editor to modify the curve manually, you can convert the keyframes with the 'V' shortcut and choose 'Vector' to have a linear movement. (7:00) In case you need to dim your background you can activate 'Fade Objects' in Overlays and play with the Fade Factor. No need to make any changes to the background material. (11:59) In case you need to fade out other layers you can turn on 'Fade Layers' in Overlays. The active layer is the layer you are working on and this one will always look normal but the others will be faded (13:20) For the color picker, hover over the color you want to change and use 'E' shorcut and then pick the sample color from whatever you want . No need to open the color whell to select the color picker. (13:25) the Shield button have to be active, I mean with Check Mark.☑

This is like one of the best tutorials I have ever seen.

Great to see more Blender content!

Fascinating. You’re providing a side of Blender I never knew existed. You’re impressively proficient in both Blender 2D and 3D.

Perfect use-case for YT playback speed controls.

Excellent workflow! Just brilliant. I love to see 2D artists use their fundamental skills to get the most out of Blender for illustration and animation. Loved this series, hopefully this will inspire many to tackle on blender and find a whole world of tools they'll be able to use however they want!

You know, I’m still trying to learn to be an animator, and it’s awesome to see some education for this. Nice work btw, I’m impressed.

So good man! End result is truly amazing! 🤩

Blender is a powerful creative software for 2d artists as well as 3d, I hope to see more 2d artists using it in new creative ways

The style and atmosphere in this animation it is very nice!

JESUS CHRIST MARCO - not only was this a super inspiring and helpful blender series but the way you teach hand drawn animation is UNBELIEVABLY inspiring!!! F*ck man.. that was so beautifully done. What an honor it was to meet you at Lightbox.

Omg this is awesome. I’m only 2 years into learning 2D and I started a briny bit of 3D. This is such a great place to start. “Hogarth? Might as well call him Zeppo or something.” Lol. Great film. Edit after seeing the composite section: omfg dude, wtf, I felt like I was back in math class. Lol. Jesus.

First! I'm a Big fan of your artwork... I love your art style and your videos inspire me a lot. Thank you so much for all the great lessons. I learn a lot from you in every video. Keep up the good work! ❤️

I can't believe how easy this looks! Love this series!

There’s a handy way of adding blur effects to grease pencil objects and key framing the effect strength to simulate depth of field change. Love this tutorial and your work

You don't have to scale the scene to get a greater DOF, just type in a lower f-stop number like .05. Grease pencil objects can have DOF! On the GP object, go into visual effects properties, add a blur effect and check "use dof"

Been recently playing around with Blender to be able to make my own 3d scenes to draw on top of and I gotta say 3.0 is pretty great in terms of UI intuitiveness once you get the hang of it. Animation is definitely one of it's easier to grasp strong points. The hardest one to understand being nodes 🤣

This is a PHENOMENAL tutorial series, I hope I can use Blender like this for my next short film!

Wow the final animation turned out amazing, thanks for sharing the process Marco :D

SO GOOD, MARCO! I learned more in 15 or so minutes than I have in hours of courses! (The courses are good, mind, but they don’t incorporate a tv/film animator’s process. I’m no longer afraid of Blender’s editing interface! It’s like Photoshop crossed with LEGO to make a subway map, minus foot injury & lost passes.

to move objects into collection you can also select them either in the viewport or in the outliner press m and choose new collection then name the collection in the popup and press enter

I just found this video and I have to say that you are a totally genius I will follow you. Thanks a lot buddy.

Marco, thank you very much for these 3 videos. You've basically answered ALL of my unasked questions on how to bring my comics to life through Blender. Love you man!

oh men, so much to learn to be atleast 1/2rd of your skill with blender! kudos to you bro!!!

OMG.... That's so great tutorial. Love it so much.😍🤩🤩 Love the way you explain. So clear and easy to understand. You've just got a new subscriber from Indonesia ...

insane quality, Marco. Love to see it.

Two thing I think we could add to this amazing series, project from view port in UV edit, you could use it in your advantage instead of texture painting inside Blender, like set up the 3d scene , render it over painting and on each object in UV edit select project from view port and it could project your painting on your objects, I didn't see that here, and remember when projecting from view port you need to be in hover your mouse on camera view, and second technique we could use is texture painting from external app inside Blender! when selected it takes a snap shot of your view and bring it to like Photoshop and from there you paint do whatever you like then save it and it will project the paintings on the model, this method combined with above as I said could boost your work a lot! IMO! also another topic you might want to discover! Made In Dreams, I recently found it! it's a game engine that use VR tools with PlayStation and unlike anything I ever seen it lets you create anything you can imagine so I highly recommend Marco dig it! it's based on voxel sculpting, it's a game engine exclusive to Sony that you can purchase on PSN as a video game but it's more than that! please check it! I love to see you try it! peace.

this is such a good tutorial, not too full on, but also not too simple. amazing

I just watched all 19 minutes of this. I can't even draw.

you made me fall in love with blender and grease pencil again

WOW...my head hurts. Amazing art, amazing knowledge. Blender is such an amazing tool.

Thanks 🥺❤❤❤ It's amazing to help us out. I'll keep learning from you and watch your videos that may help me out in animation. Keep it up, Marco

4:23 Faster way to do this: select both points (or press 'A' to select everything), press T, select "linear". This creates a linear interpolation (the in-betweens) rather than Bézier

This was really really helpful! I had no idea what I was doing in blender and i didn't understand the timing and rendering stuff until now. Thank you :)

Really enjoyed how ambitious you went on this, was a joy to watch through! Made my evening n_n

also to adjust image preview in composite you click on V to zoom and unzoom alt + v . pan alt + middel mouse button . and you can just click on yellow dot shift + ctrl it will automaticly creat for you viewer output .

so cool I found this video randomly and man , was that very good

Now I REALLY have an incentive to learn Blender. This is incredible.

As a 2D artist who grew up on Macromedia Flash, this video was... I think "enlightening" is a bit of an understatement. Overwhelming almost, hahah. But thank you, this video pushed me out of the "I don't know what I don't know" phase of Blender, because I really really want to learn grease pencil even more now. I can't get over how powerful and versatile Blender is as a software.

awesome walkthrough, inspiring tutorial, thanks for sharing this

OMG that laptop looks incredible !

great job well done! btw you can set the default interpolation in the "preferences/animation/F-curves/default interpolation" to be linear, or set it by selecting the object transformation in graph editor and changing it using the key "T" or menu key, interpolation mode.

The Acer concept D is definitely new to me.

been looking into grease pencil lately and this is exactly what i needed, thank you so much and thank you for all your videos, this is the best art channel 💛

15:18 you should render as exr^^ it's amazing how you can edit it later on!

This is awesome, there is a more easier way to do the snow flakes as well by making use of the particle systems in blender but I guess this is more of how a 2d artist would normally go about it. I'm always finding new ways to merge 2d and 3d, take the best parts of both of these aspects. This was a very helpful video though and there's a lot I can use here going forward with my projects 😁✌ keep up the amazing work

There is so much emotion in me rn

I think I just found the perfect fusion between drawing and blender

Just binged all three videos of this one. I'm definitely gonna be implementing key aspects of this workflow onto an upcoming project. Thanks for sharing!

Your video just saved me, omg, nowear I can find an information about render for 2d only 3d, Thank you very much

omg, i was excited of your work! how many time you're spent?? i love your channel, bro, thanks for your tutorials!!! good luck at the next animations!

OMG~ this is very amazing~ never thought of Blender becomes that powerful on 2D! Love how your explain the process for executing the shot! Time to get my spirit going~ Thank you so much for the sharing!

I really feel for people who take up animation the process is so time consuming! Respect

Wow, that's wild... I'll be downloading blender later tonight

there is a blur modifier you can use to blur GP object. Nice tutorial.

this is amazing! you explain things in a way that is super easy to understand and is slow enough to keep up. Thank you so much!

Incredible! If u write a book on 3d for digital painters I'll buy instant!

Awesome result. Now i understand the meaning of compositing, thanks!

This is great! I'm considering switching from TVPaint or at the very least incorporating more blender. Your animations are looking epic Marco

Amazing work

Yeah. Blender is sooo powerful. Thank you for the video. Super instructive =)

Just wonderful to watch.

Can you do character rigging with these methods?

boy i sure was wondering if the concept d could handle it glad he told us that yup it sure can way to go concept d great job keep it up my friend

I wanted to get into Blender, but the number of possibilities and things to learn is so overwhelming for me! D: I guess I need to get it step by step, very slowly. Btw, cool laptop you have there, catched my interest.

You can Ctrl click visibility to isolate a render layer

You can adjust the opacity of a background image throu the object properties tab. No need to build a new shader

Super cool. I like your no BS approach and just go for it instead of over explaining stuff. Keep it up and glad I found your channel. Also, As an animator on Iron Giant, I appreciate the throwback to such a fun character....

I am at the point where you point out that the boy is Hogarth Hues and I just want to say that is my Favorite Movie to I love it so much

This is so great. So much in such a short video compared to some others I've tried to watch! Thanks for this!

for grease pencil and static lighting (painted) , id always use just viewport rendering ... A) your scene will render in a few seconds even in 2,5 or 4k and B) rendering can change the look compared to the viewport a little bit, while viewport rendering always gives you 1:1 , just with better antialiasing, this becomes usefull especially if render many elements separately, you can create several viewlayers and just render them one by one with a simple python script which throws every viewlayer in its own subfolder autonamed by the viewlayer imagine you create a short movie with 40 cuts and each cut must be seperated into background objects , characters etc..