And this unprecedented integration of 2D tools in a 3D environment will enable many artists to create next-level concept art, storyboards and animation for their projects. Today after a dedicated team of Blender developers artists worked on it for years it is now a full 2D drawing and animation system. A quick way for an art director to mark notation and make changes on a 3d model or scene, for the artist to refer to when doing revisions. The grease pencil actually started as a digital version of the real world grease pencil. The grease pencil is a revolutionary tool in Blender that is being used for different purposes other the making 2D animations. It’s actually the case whether you’re using Blender for 2D animation or another software. To clarify, skipping one or some of these can affect the project negatively in one way or another.

So generally speaking, these are the steps and the processes you need to go through if you want to get a good final product. Which is basically all about video editing, transitions, zooming, color correction, mixing the audio, music and so on. Finally, after we are done with the majority of the project, we go to post production.

Or we can use Blender’s real time render engine called Eevee. Subsequently rig them, create all different types of animation, lineart coloring, do the visual effects and draw all the details you need using the grease pencil.Īnd when we are done we can render the final results using Blender’s render engine called Cycles.

The second part is the actual production in which we create the characters. First preproduction in which we are going to create the story, script, storyboard and animatics using the grease pencil as a primary tool. Like 3D animation in Blender, the process of creating a 2D animation project goes through 3 different stages.

2d to 3d blender