Blender's new Grease Pencil features are making me thrilled!!

Blond

As some of you probably already know, Blender 2.8 is finally approaching it's final stage of developement and iterations. The BETA officially got released last week and people can already grab on and test the new implemented features (be wary of possible UI changes and bugs though).

One feature/tool that I mostly anticipated was Blender's 2D Drawing/Animation gadget; the grease Pencil...

Dozens of videos have been featuring all of the amazing capabilities of the upcoming upgrade but damn, I never expectied things to look this great:

Actual 3D/Quick SKetch designing in the UI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tobqZ8fMqBk&fbclid=IwAR3AyIjDGUjdoztu956sjrp4hhqRfFUsPptTU4s2cuvEPzYccCL2FDQ5_Z0


Nice looking Animation done using the GP toosl:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jooIZHezXAg&fbclid=IwAR1ag_GtD9ZNBkTEN2JKyF-v0cKDK-ekqkob7uRHeNUgjq7XCR2i_85Mf3Q

Any 2D artists/animator here is excited about it?

CreativeSheep

Wouldn't it be better to say excited. 

Blond

CreativeSheep said:

Wouldn't it be better to say excited. 

Changed it for ya. This is Polycount after all, not NeoGaf.

PolyHertz

Blond said:
Changed it for ya. This is Polycount after all, not NeoGaf.

Yep, Polycount is the far more sophisticated home of the penis tank.

Gmanx

Hell yeah I'm excited about it. I use Blender most days so haven't the time to fully commit to 2.8 just yet, plus I don't want it crashing during contract work.

I'll certainly be having a play with Grease Pencil's 2d/3d workflow and have a bunch of Jama Jurabaev's tutorials lined up ready to go through.

Blond

Here's some free samples done with it; including the short film files they made a while ago.

https://cloud.blender.org/p/gallery/5b642e25bf419c1042056fc6

goekbenjamin

That first video looks preeetry cool!
How does blender even know when you draw where to place the "3d brush?" is it in the front/back? WTF?! Blackmagic!

Didn't worked for me on the first try

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/kdeaaiqw1meot7q/9onhcIyrPC.mp4

maybe i just don know how to properly use it ;D

garcellano

Yeah, this looks hot. Might get Blender again to try this out. Played around with Blender way way back.

kmacneil91

Does anyone know what the actual topology of meshes drawn from the grease pencil in Blender look like??

renocrade

Yay blender 2.8 is gonna be great! grease pencil and eevee is awesome!