2D Animation in Blender

Blender Grease Pencil Masterclass
For professional and aspiring 2D animators.

Save yourself money, time and frustration - start to 2D animate in Blender with ease!

This course is for:
(professional) 2d frame by frame animators, that want to learn Blender quickly to start creating immediately!

This is not for:
3d animators, Illustrators, students or people that have endless time at their hand.
(Basically you can get all this knowledge for free by watching weeks worth of Youtube, then fighting with Blender for another week and going back to forums and the Blender manual for a third week. - no problem if you have time)

This Grease Pencil Masterclass is my condensed knowledge of months of learning from forums, videos, and the Blender manual. All filtered through the experience of a professional working in the industry for years and pressed into this concise 1.5-hour video course.

Let me safe you a lot of time and frustration - for the price of a coffee and a piece of cake

In just 1,5 hours you get all the knowledge you need to start using Blender for professional 2d animation.

You also get my keyboard shortcuts specialised for 2d animation. Including familiar shortcuts for flipping between different keyframes for example.

After you finish this Video Masterclass, you can start your Short Film, TV SeriesTrailer or whatever you like to animate.

What If at the end of this Masterclass, there are still questions remaining?

Simply ask me directly in the 2dToolBox Discord Channel that is linked in the course as well.

As I said, this is just for 2d animators who don't want to spend weeks learning a new program, but want to animate directly.

Ever since I released this course in 2020 almost 200 artists have bought and learned with the “Blender Grease Pencil Masterclass”

Ever since it has gone through 2 major updates and I plan to continue adding to it, whenever Blender Grease Pencil goes through big updates.

For this masterclass you would need:

• A computer
• Any drawing tablet any brand! (either bambo/intous-style or cintique style from any manufacturer, Huion, Wacom. X-pen...)

Disclaimer:

• All videos are just to watch on gumroad, not to download - I hope you understand and respect that!
• This video course is not covering principles of animation, but shows you how to apply your 2D animation skills to Blender !

👉 IN THIS VIDEO MASTERCLASS I will show you:

00 Intro

• Installing Blender
• Changing shortcuts on your drawing tablet pen

01 Let's get started

• „the void“ – wrong navigation
• settings in Blender
• installing my the proffessional 2d animation keyboard shortcuts
• the right navigating the workspace ion

02 Interface

• changing between modes
• brushes
• materials
• overlays
• render views
• scene collection / library
• property panel
• time table
• change your interface

03 Drawing

• different modes in Blender
• brushes /settings
• materials / colors
• from rough to clean
• manipulating your drawing with edit and sculpt mode
• loading some visual reference to your shot
• modifiers and effects
• install brushes
• add brushes to default file setup

04 Animation

• Settings for animation
• Creating new keyframes
• Flipping between frames
• Onion skin settings
• Using sculpt mode for tight animation
• Moving frames on the timeline
• Interpolation tool for automated inbetweening
• Multiframe tool

05 Coloring

• coloring settings, tools and shortcuts

06 Modifiers

• usefull modifiers for 2d animation such as the noise, array and time offset modifier

07 Render & closing thoughts

• Effects
• Hierarchy of objects in your shot
• Render as a movie file
• Helpful links
• Outro

08 NEW!!
Process video 01 (54min) - Figure Illustrations

About me:

I am a professional, german 2d animator and illustrator. In 2016 I  worked in Manchester at Kilogramme animation for three months, then for half a year at Cartoon Saloon before returning to Cologne, Germany to Co-Found Studio Huckepack in 2017 with the ambition to bring 2d feature film quality animation to germany.

Having my own studio for years mostly taught me to be resourceful. So when blender 2.8 came up and the word got around that you could animate in it for free, I got curious.

However, I was always intimidated by 3D tools. I simply wanted to draw! I pushed through it anyways and dedicated months to learning Blender and adapting it for 2D animation, specifically tailored for professional use in frame-by-frame animation.

This Grease Pencil Masterclass is my condensed knowledge of months of learning from forums, videos, and the Blender manual. Pressed all into this concise 1.5-hour Video course.

Frequently asked questions:

How do you use Grease Pencil in Blender 2D animation?

To use the Grease Pencil in Blender 2D animation, you first need to switch to the 2D animation workspace and create a new Grease Pencil object. Then, you can choose a brush type and size and start drawing on the canvas using the mouse or a drawing tablet. To animate the Grease Pencil, you need to create a new animation layer in the Dope Sheet editor and use the Draw tool to create each frame of the animation. You can play back the animation using the timeline and export it as a video or sequence of images when you're finished.

Can I use Blender for 2D animation?

Yes, Blender can be used for 2D animation using its Grease Pencil tool, which allows you to draw and animate directly in a 3D space with a variety of brush types and settings. Blender offers a range of animation tools such as keyframe animation and curve editing, as well as the ability to add sound to your animations, making it a flexible and powerful toolset for 2D animation.

Thank you!

I'm so grateful for this opportunity to share my knowledge and I hope you have a great time learning along!

You can reach me at: friedrichschaeper@gmail.com for questions/concerns.
Also feel free to # or link me along your creations on instagram (https://www.instagram.com/friedrichschaeper/). I would love to see what you all come up with and to share your work.