The Complete Guide to Blender Graphics, 7th Edition

28 Grease Pencil 20 Animatior

• Introduction

Introduction

The Grease Pencil provides 2D Animation tools within Blender’s 3D Pipeline. 2D Animation creates characters, storyboards, and backgrounds in two-dimensional environments which may be may be used in advertisements, films, television shows, computer games, or websites.

A typical Animation is a series of drawings creating a motion Cycle. Each individual drawing is captured as an Animation Frame which when played in succession creates the illusion of motion.

This subject is extensive and has, therefore, been released as a separate publication:

Figure 28.1

The 2D Animation Workspace is ...