Blender's Animation Tools - Amazing for 2D Artists
How to use Blender’s 2D animation workspace and simple 3D animation tools to make cinematic scenes with tons of life! Great training for games, movies, advertising, motion graphics, etc.
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00:00 - 00:30 - Intro
00:30 - 01:25 - Depth of Field
01:25 - 01:56 - Organizing The Project
01:56 - 03:26 - Camera Move
03:26 - 04:32 - Animating Snow
04:32 - 04:49 - Grease Pencil Wobble
04:49 - 13:31 - 2D Character Animation
13:31 - 14:56 - Integrating The Animation
14:56 - 18:45 - Compositing
18:45 - 19:16 - Final Shot
Hey folks - this video is part 3 of a series! Check out the rest of the tutorial here -- Part 1: kzhead.info/sun/pNqwhbRtsJybnas/bejne.html Part 2: kzhead.info/sun/gsioh52pnqmGmWw/bejne.html
Really love this series! Never knew you could 2d animate using 3d software. That might be the one thing that gets me to try out blender again.
I'm gonna save you a shit ton of time. You don't need to keep hitting render for each layer, just go into the composite tab and make all your render layers then add a file output tab to each one. Then you only have to hit render once and all your collection render layers will be seperated.
@@matterform4691 a good tip, thanks! Always something in Blender I don’t know about :)
Great work!
Amazing 🤩 fabulous I’m amazed 😮
It blows my mind what the blender devs do for artists. It's amazing.
They really are the best
I hope they have a good life
Blender is truly the best example for open source software in almost every way. It is at the level of the very expensive big names like Maya and Cinema 4D, very user friendly (as far as 3D software goes), platform universal and well funded.
@@fabiandrinksmilk6205 True. Have yet to see another example. Linux doesn't count because Linux devs aren't interested in making anything easier for new people.
@@christpierrex😮😮
dude this is so amazing, I can't believe I'm getting this knowledge for free!
And the software as well. It's incredible.
hello, remember to love your family and friends in your life okay goodbye
@@mrkim8449 no
Shhhh 🤫 lol
@@beesmongeese2978 guysss staaap 🤫
This is the shortest video ever that explain all of the 2D and 2.5D animation at the highest level production quality.
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.
hello, remember to love your family and friends in your life, okay goodbye
@@mrkim8449 I will, Mr Kim
there's krita for 2D animating but not sure for camera movement if it's really efficient
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!
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.
good luck, its great software
What are you doing to deep learn? Any channels/courses/instructors you recommend?
Deep learning? 3d specialist? Get over yourself
@@Ciprian-Amarandei damn girl you need a midol
Well written. On a similar path.
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" :)
I haven't tried this myself yet, but if this works this should be a top comment for sure!
Ha! Very cool tip - didn’t know that!
happy to share ☺️
Must be a good effect
@@glauconariston9606 yea
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!
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.
WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT TRYING BLENDER ANIMATION AND THIS LEGEND POSTED
Marc, you've made a very applicable and comprehensive guide of animating 2d and 3d mixed animations. Thank you.
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).
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!
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!
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.
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 :)
Couldn't be have skipped rendering entirely, and used the Render Layer Node as input in the compositor?
@@queertales that wont generate live previews of every frame tho
yes i was also thinking this as he went through the renders
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
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 💛
Unbelievably, this is better instruction than I got in all of uni. Thanks for doing this. Brilliant work.
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.
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
The amount of work that went into merely 4 seconds is crazy.
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!
The style and atmosphere in this animation it is very nice!
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!
This is so great. So much in such a short video compared to some others I've tried to watch! Thanks for this!
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!
Wow the final animation turned out amazing, thanks for sharing the process Marco :D
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
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!
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!
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.
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 :)
So good man! End result is truly amazing! 🤩
insane quality, Marco. Love to see it.
This is a PHENOMENAL tutorial series, I hope I can use Blender like this for my next short film!
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....
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!
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.
awesome walkthrough, inspiring tutorial, thanks for sharing this
Amazing as always Marco. Thank you so much for these 3 parts. You are a great teacher. Thank you! thank you! thank you!
Really enjoyed how ambitious you went on this, was a joy to watch through! Made my evening n_n
fantastic walkthrough on your workflow. very inspiring. cheers!
this is such a good tutorial, not too full on, but also not too simple. amazing
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.
Woah that’s a lot of complex stuffs! Thank you for sharing this!
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.
Wow Marco! Very cool and useful. As always, well explained ant to the point. Thanks a lot for sharing!
Fascinating. You’re providing a side of Blender I never knew existed. You’re impressively proficient in both Blender 2D and 3D.
if everyone could draw like him, this world would be better
Brilliant video series. Thanks so much, you are a fantastic instructor xx
Thank you very much! I didn’t know how to make a clean up and add colors and your video really helped me🤗
Super inspiring. Really enjoying the blender videos.
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! ❤️
Great to see more Blender content!
your videos always inspire me! great work
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
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!
Hi Marco I love your tutorials . I've learned so much from them esp during lockdown helped me alot to improve my art. They're so fun and comprehensive and well presented . I was always a bit scared of Blender and the learning curve involved because it does so much . This is packed info but clearly presented . For the beginners who are more used to 2D and the end results are really worthwhile even if you dont want to get into the animation side of things. I know some digital artists who use blender to create better depth and 3D effect in their 2D art but I had no idea how it was done before . I'm definately going to give Blender an bash now following these tutorials . Thanks so much for sharing your inspiring content your a total master :)
I just found this video and I have to say that you are a totally genius I will follow you. Thanks a lot buddy.
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.
Awesome! Great job, mate! That's really inspiring!
This is like one of the best tutorials I have ever seen.
Thanks so much for your amazing videos and elaborate information Marco. Extremely valuable!!
great video my guy this actually explained so much because you made it very interesting to follow along, thank you.
OMG! this is great!! just stumbled onto this and now I need to learn blender too!!! fantastic tutorial! thank you
Please make more of such videos, love you
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
very limited not really controllable imho especialy with gp objects , tweening a boxblur or gaussian blur in post gives you artistic freedom instead
Very useful tutorial , Marco. This looks great.
Thank you for this incredibly informative video! I love the editing work too. :)
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'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!
Blender can do it all except sound creation when you know how to get the best from it and so much more coming.
@@GaryParris I think most animation and video editors can do sound creation.
@@HAWXLEADER yes I am aware thanks though, just meaning blender does everything you need to create the visuals, I use audacity myself
Thanks for sharing, it's a wonderfull animation and very good workflow..
@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.☑
I'm ecstatic! You provide really spot-on and useful content! Thanks a ton 😊
Thank you for such a great video tutorial.
Really Thanks For This Amazing Tutorial
Thanks so much for making this! So informative and helpful!!
Just wonderful to watch.
loving these, thanks man.
This is so awesome.... Marco you are so gifted man
Amazing... I hope in future I have access to the tools and resources that will help me create and ease my workflow.
Seriously amazing... thank you so much!!
AMAZING tutorial thank you soo so much
Why did i watch this i dont even have blender
Idk for fun
Same 😂
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"
You are really cool. I love this series. I can't stop watching. really intresting. thank you!
That's Really well done. Dude's got talent!
thanks for all the content you create :) always helpful , entertaining and inspiring :D !
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 ...
Awesome result. Now i understand the meaning of compositing, thanks!
if you understand layers in any other software, compositing is just layers and effects, stacking of background to foreground element the uppermost being the last thing you alpha over as per this animation tutorial, just goes from left to right instead top - lowest layer
Thank you so much for this!
oh men, so much to learn to be atleast 1/2rd of your skill with blender! kudos to you bro!!!
Perfect use-case for YT playback speed controls.
Love your videos! Thanks for your content
i can not believe i watch full video in did not get bored .. how much you are good teacher
The moving is pretty cool 3D