Blender 2D Animation Basics for Beginners - Pro Coloring Tips

[@Nah_Id_Win19]

The multiple frame fill is genius!

[@PolyPaint]

Agree! Its really cool. I want to test another trick on this topic and share it if that's even better

[@medicenkeka]

This was the video I needed so bad, I had been looking for good tutorials for days to make animation in Blender but nobody explained how to color it. Thank u 😭

[@PolyPaint]

Glad I could help! Will do more soon

[@Nisoupie]

I love how Hard you work on those animation. It's always about how much effort you put in each work rather than the final result only. I'd love to see more ❤

[@PolyPaint]

@@Nisoupie thanks a lot!

[@VerikArt]

Blue Lock creators need to watch this video :D Awesome!

[@PolyPaint]

lol

[@OleksiiChernik]

Each new vid is a treasure!

[@PolyPaint]

Thank you very much!

[@Frostiar]

This is exactly what I was looking for. I'm so excited to start animating with this, thank you so much for being direct and simple

[@PolyPaint]

Awesome! Glad to hear that!

[@kianusteve9633]

you cooked. great video. you found a perfect niche (blender and 2d art)

[@PolyPaint]

Yeah, surprisingly, not many people showing 2d side of blender.

[@mickseegobin]

I’ve been addicted to your videos! You’re super talented, thank you 😊

[@PolyPaint]

Aw thank you so much!

[@reeshabgogoi]

Thanks for this detail tutorial, help out a lot ❤.

[@PolyPaint]

Awesome! It makes me happy

[@marcinchaciej]

You are like a Santa & a mind reader combo, it's exactly what I needed now for a present, video to polish some GP Blender skills in regards to coloring and this video hit the jackpot. Multiple frame coloring was the trick I knew should theoretically be possible with Blender but you showed us how easy this actually is... also the way you work with Krita in combination with Blender is really resonating

[@PolyPaint]

Awesome! Glad you liked it!

[@anicemenhour2290]

I will add for anyone who need it that the Fill tool in Blender is very difficult to use when you are drawing on a 3D Model. Because the Fill Tool only works in 2D, you can only fill a "plane", so it doesn't work when your drew strokes with different levels of depth in your 3D scene. The only way I have found to remedy that is to use Fill strokes (not tool). Try not to fill too big of an area either, fill your zone little by little with small circles for example.

[@turashue.]

Your tutorials are godsend! Everything looks amazing 👏🏼

[@PolyPaint]

Thanks a lot!

[@individuo5673]

que buen trabajo amigo, queda realmente bueno, gracias por tomarte el tiempo de explicar tan detalladamente

[@PolyPaint]

Thanks for watching!

[@RegisNdeTene]

this is Gold. I love Krita and Blender Combo. Thanks a bunch

[@PolyPaint]

Thanks a lot!

[@DangerDonger]

This is awesome, thank you for sharing your knowledge man!

[@PolyPaint]

thanks for watching!

[@kendalljones8816]

Hey ! we want more videos like this,❤

[@PolyPaint]

Will do more, definitely!

[@yoniwoker]

esos videos es lo que busco siempre, gracias.

[@PolyPaint]

Thanks! I’m glad you find it helpful!

[@naysalgueiroofficial7275]

Man thank you so much, I was looking for a tutorial like this, I just colored on photoshop that’s how desperate I was.😅

[@PolyPaint]

I think that’s a viable option too. Especially if you want to achieve more artistic style of animation.

[@HelvioAvelar]

beautiful art!

[@PolyPaint]

Thanks a lot!

[@87render_official]

Thanks! this will help my workflow

[@PolyPaint]

Glad it helped!

[@ElRotura]

Thanks a lot for share with us all your knowledge :) Have a nice day :)

[@PolyPaint]

I really like sharing! Have a wonderful day too!

[@benito9830]

Very impressive tips✨

[@PolyPaint]

Thanks a lot!

[@101touchapps]

nice. i actually have some experience with blender. trust me its not gonna be easy for beginners but the video helps hiving us a clear picture. learnt a new trick. do you do the art? its awesome

[@PolyPaint]

Thanks a lot! I’m doing whole art cycle, from concept art to modeling, animating and rendering

[@stop_3342]

Can you create a detailed tutorial about grease pencil? Something like following step by step animation project

[@PolyPaint]

I'm not a full-time animator and animation takes a lot of time to finish. Even this tiny bit of animation took me many hours to make because of the steps involved. I'm afraid that the tutorial from start to finish will be overloaded with info and unwatchable. Maybe a series of small videos can be more digestible and easy to understand. Eventually I will cover all the tools and trick you'd need to make animation from start to finish. Maybe i need to come up with some example that can involve everything, but not be impossible to do in my free time.

[@stop_3342]

@@PolyPaint yeah, you're right! Anyway, thanks for the helpful video!

[@maxrinehart4177]

such fantastic tutorial, thanks, man. blender GP probably need more plug-ins or customized tools to help bring the gap between blender and 2d traditional drawing apps closer. it can do the job but sometimes 2d apps has faster process. I already have some ideas for tools but I don't know blender internal code well to implement such ideas.

[@PolyPaint]

Thanks! Definitely! It still far from perfection and I think it was out of dev's focus for a long time. They will release 4.3 soon and it improves some aspects of GP. Cant wait to test it out. But I also think it won't replace tradition CSP animation because the tech behind is very different. But you already can do pro-level work in blender. It will just get better going further.

[@OsObO.Studio]

Thanks Sergey. I really like your tutorials. Inspiring and motivating. I wish I could find a Mixamo alternative to animate other type of characters like animals. Any clue ?

[@PolyPaint]

Thanks a lot for the feedback! Regarding animals animation, im not sure to be honest. Although, you could look into animation packs made by people for games and try retargeting them onto your rigs. I use autorig Pro and it has some rig libraries and retargeting tools from various engines or sources. but again, im not sure if that can be applied to non-bipedal rigs.

[@redtwintails]

This is so cool

[@PolyPaint]

Thanks!

[@dkbros1592]

That's why people use 3d model animated it render it then use it in 2d easy btw thank brother got to know Many things 😊

[@PolyPaint]

Yes, true! I use 3d a lot in my work lately.

[@jeffeeeer]

Looks great! Can you make a longer version of this process? I don't mind if it takes hours.

[@PolyPaint]

Thanks! Regarding the longer videos, I don’t think I could pull this off in my current situation. Work, art and editing videos takes all the time I have left during the day. Maybe be day I will be able to focus and make something longer

[@jeffeeeer]

@@PolyPaint It doesn't matter, they can be videos without comments, just seeing which keys you press and the complete process would be more than enough, please🙏

[@jotzzx]

Muito bom meu amigo, talvez não entenda nada do que eu esteja falando, mas mesmo assim, muito bom continue...

[@PolyPaint]

Thanks a lot!

[@techmind251]

Wow, very beautiful animation and art, I have a question that if you make the same animation in Krita and the same in Blender then according to your experience which software is better? People say that painting concept art in Krita is good and not that good in Blender and I have seen many Blender tutorials in which very beautiful concept art is being created in Blender itself, what do you say?

[@PolyPaint]

Hey! Thanks for question. Blender is a bit different when it comes to drawing and painting. The Grease pencil is a vector tool, and is not as flexible as any raster tools out there when it comes to speed and editing. For making concept art Krita is superior. But I would still can use blender to create base for the design or sculpt, or kitbash something, and then export that into Krita for finishing touches. Depends heavily on application. You can easily do 2d cartoon or anime style concepts solely in Blender (although Krita and any other 2d software will still be more efficient). But is way harder if you want to use some complex shading, textures, loose edges and other artistic tricks. Not even mentioning some photobashing techniques you can do in 2d software. In the end, I would learn both because they complement each other. I'm using blender fulltime in my work mixing 2d and 3d constantly.

[@techmind251]

@@PolyPaint thank you soo much !!

[@JaysonStudios]

Bro please more blender grease pencil tutorials.... Yes are so much better😊

[@PolyPaint]

Thanks! Will do more soon!

[@6runosilva]

Bro, can you do more in depth tutorial on how to rig and animate still images (2D) like the last video you made on Blender? That was really awesome. I was willing to learn AE, but i don't want to mess with Adobe Softwares and also want a free alternative. ❤

[@PolyPaint]

I will! Have couple ideas planned. It just takes time to execute that doing all the art and animation. Stay tuned!

[@ThomasAlanWayne]

I second that,I would also like to see a step by step process video

[@PolyPaint]

@@ThomasAlanWayne when you say step by step, how do you see it?

[@ThomasAlanWayne]

@@PolyPaint hello there I’m loving your videos and what you’re doing. I would love to see a blank canvas or starting from zero, then drawing something on blender grease pencil or importing something and just a more in depth look at how to do the meshes, rigging etc. Thank you

[@PolyPaint]

@@ThomasAlanWayne gotcha. I will think how to make that possible. Editing and writing on top of art makes it a bit hard to manage, but I will try to come up with something executable. Thanks for the kind word btw! I appreciate that a lot!

[@BushraJarallah]

yaaaaayyyy thanks!!!!!

[@PolyPaint]

Thank for watching!

[@alphaffshorts9717]

thanks a lot

[@PolyPaint]

Thanks for watching!

[@JayPanchal-u6p]

From where did you create those brushes and texture teach us sir please

[@PolyPaint]

Hey. Can you elaborate a bit more? In this video I haven't used any non-standard brushes and textures.

[@newbossbro3180]

Will you make video on making sketch animations?

[@PolyPaint]

Yeah, i wanted to do simpler animations. This style is too time-consuming. I'll focus on rough animations or storyboarding soon.

[@MaximeRatchagan]

Hey PolyPaint, I'd love to know if blended colors can still be achievable with Grease Pencil and compositing. I haven't really dived in compositing yet, but I extremely wish to know if this component could help replicate digital paintings in blender's vector based canvas. Thanks again for this awesome video :) Can't wait for the rendering videos to come!

[@PolyPaint]

Some people manage to achieve that in Grease Pencil. Check out Sophie Jantak on KZbin, she makes pretty cool art in Grease pencil. As for animation, I think this type of style won't be sustainable in Grease pencil. I would rather in Cel-shaded look of a 3D animation like Arcane or some of the anime titles.

[@WaddleQwacker]

It looks like the boundary strokes system is gone in v4.3. There is a bug report for it (ticket 130610), hopefully it gets fixed soon. Also the fill tool will requires to first confirm the boundary distance (the blue lines you can change with the mouse wheel) before filling things up (though that's been the case since v2.93 i think). For areas you know are closed, you can double-click and it will work without a fuss.

[@PolyPaint]

thanks for the info! Super helpful! Regarding the fill tool, yeah, in my case when the Close gap visualization is On, i had to double click to confirm the fill tool. I need to try 4.3 to know what's new there.

[@bryanbantar9742]

Get toni Fernandez in this team as a natural replacement for yamal. Barca clearly needed a prolific winger against sociedad to stretch the pitch.

[@imamsoediyono]

mantap

[@hoseinbebany]

U have my subb

[@PolyPaint]

Thanks!

[@easterntiger7108]

Hello, I'm wondering if theres a way to add Ambient Occlusion to 2d animation in Blender? I've been inspired by the movie Klaus and I really want to replicate the same kind of effect

[@PolyPaint]

I’m not sure about that. There are no AO filters for the grease pencil currently and it’s treated separately from 3d renders, hence no AO pass there. Maybe there are some tricks but I don’t know. NijiGpen addon has some lighting features but I have not tried them

[@easterntiger7108]

@@PolyPaint Oh I see... thanks for replying anyway!

[@00jero00]

subbed

[@PolyPaint]

Thanks and welcome!

[@alayzacastillo7632]

Wow y como se haría una serie como la de MSA ?

[@PolyPaint]

What's MSA?

[@alayzacastillo7632]

@PolyPaint un canal de youtube "MSA Previously My Story animated "

[@YogeshChaudhry-lc6eh]

man i created outlines in photoshop, how i can import that outlines to blender so i can fill color in multiple frames ?

[@PolyPaint]

Depends on what you're doing. You can try and Vectorize it using NijiGPen addon for blender. It does pretty good job converting lineart into Grease Pencil. Grease pencil is a vector tool and the Fill tool works only with its strokes, not imported raster images that you get from Photoshop. Or you can stick to photoshop and do the animation there. If you need to bring it into blender for whatever reason, you can just bring in an exported video from photoshop as a texture. You wont be able to edit it tho and will have to reexport from photoshop every time you change something, but thats an option.

[@YogeshChaudhry-lc6eh]

@PolyPaint man i just want to fill colors in multiple frames is that thing possible in Photoshop?

[@PolyPaint]

@ yeah, of course. Photoshop also have fill tool and wide variety of select tools that may help you.

[@pbimagination2058]

Do you think this technique works on animal character???

[@PolyPaint]

Coloring principles are the same. Its just a technical approach that can be applied to any subject.

[@pbimagination2058]

@PolyPaint Okey. I understand. Do you think 2d style and 3D style animation can work at same time???

[@PolyPaint]

@@pbimagination2058 for some cases. many studios do 3d models for big enemies, dragons etc, while characters are fully 2d. In some instances, they switch to 3d characters to do more action packed scene. But its always tricky to make it look right. You can always use 3d as a base for your 2d animation. For instance, rotoscoping and then mixing it with the rest of your 2d animation. Completely depends on the direction you'd like to take

[@mobi8046]

4:30 what file format did u use to render the frames?

[@PolyPaint]

I didn’t save the file. Just used Copy in the menu and it copies it to the clipboard and then just paste into an editor. It might not work with big files tho. 4K render might not work. Be cautious. In those cases png or jpeg is just fine

[@mobi8046]

@@PolyPaint I didn't know u could do that. Thanks 👍

[@PolyPaint]

I use the clipboard all the time in my work. It saves time and you don’t have lots of temp files everywhere. Krita, unlike photoshop, can paste transparent files too. At least from the internet. Which is super handy

[@User-xi4-s7j]

Hello, I’m getting an error saying that Blender does not support the file format, and conversely, that Krita does not support the file format Also, it seems that Blender cannot export files in PDF and several other formats that Krita supports. Could you please help me understand what the problem might be?🙏 I tried changing to different formats, but it didn't help.😢​@@PolyPaint

[@PolyPaint]

@@User-xi4-s7j hey. what are you exporting? Krita is a graphic editing software, so any image format should be okay. Try Jpeg (jpg) or Png, those are most common. Pdf is more for documents and scans rather than images. To export the render from blender go to render tab (after rendering the image) and save it as png or jpeg ( Image-Save As on the top panel) and then you can open it in krita.

[@الههاصغری-ص9ط]

What is this program name?

[@PolyPaint]

It's Blender

[@MangaGamified]

Not for my lazy ass 😅

[@PolyPaint]

haha. Despite all the tools, I still spent a lot of time doing this small animation

[@JeffersonDonald]

This. All day this. 😂

[@djambiii]

Haha yeah, I’ll stick to math

[@Respect-zr9jn]

Hi bro i am new in animation world and i want to make story type videos and also short film But i have confused to chouse softwere Opentoonz and blender Which one i dont know can you help me? Opentoonz are easy but bleder are advance what did you think?

[@PolyPaint]

Hey. I haven't used Opentoonz. So i cant say much. If you're planning to do 2d animation then it doesnt really matter which one to pick because its mostly skill driven rather than software. Blender isnt a specialized software for 2d tho, i assume it may lack some tool. try both and see what sticks to you.

[@Respect-zr9jn]

@PolyPaint thanks for answer you got 1sub + ❤

[@verendale1789]

cake

[@Sanjay_1260]

I Like Grease Pencil ~~ Is There Any Layer Based Blur System ?

[@PolyPaint]

Not yet at least (maybe in blender 4.3 idk). There are some workarounds,. depends on what you'd like to achieve