Grease Pencil 3.0 is a BIG deal

[@Crushertalos]

You can apply geometry nodes to individual layers!? This is massive. You are absolutely right, this could change what one could do with 2D animation in massive ways! Thanks so much for making this video and your hard work.

[@Polycount-tw4ix]

Thanks! glad you liked it, and yeah very excited to see what people come up with

[@kenseikc]

how can one set each layer to a different material?

[@alesjelovcan6810]

Awesome stuff!

[@capturepainting]

Clouds would be so much efficient and organic with this 💯

[@davidblais6829]

How might I better understand how you created the node sequence for the clay shapes, as well as create the thickness attribute? Super cool!

[@Polycount-tw4ix]

Thanks for watching :) basically, i convert the grease pencil to curves, then us the fill curve node, then extrude that, (the offset in the extrude node is the thickness), the rest is cleanup, so converting it to volume then back to mesh gives a smoother look, then some more smoothing with position blur :)

[@renatogangemi]

I'm curious about how the layers work in this approach. Can different colors be added by layer, or should that be done using nodes?

[@Polycount-tw4ix]

Yeah layers are essentially a new data type, like points or faces, so by ticking "layers as instances" you can store the instance index then use that to get different colors per layer or randomise attributes per layer (doing this youd just get different values for each layer)

[@pixel-ink]

So, what about doing this WITHOUT Geonodes... you know, just drawing in GP directly?

[@Polycount-tw4ix]

Not sure i know what you mean

[@pixel-ink]

@@Polycount-tw4ix ...Just doing the GP drawing without using GNs at all. After you draw a GP stroke (say a box) it automatically turns into a mesh.

[@Polycount-tw4ix]

Oh, i dont think thats possible, i think the intent is to use gn scripts for that kind of conversion

[@pixel-ink]

@@Polycount-tw4ix Well, in that case, that's to bad for some of us who don't do GN. Thanks for the reply

[@Polycount-tw4ix]

No problem! I think youll be able to download a bunch of interesting tools to do that kind of thing without having to worry about making them :)

[@juddhertzler4722]

Fill curve geometry node flattens all my geometry, any insight? Using current 4.3 alpha

[@Polycount-tw4ix]

Try rotating and appling rotation on your object, fill curve only works in certain orientations atm

[@juddhertzler4722]

@@Polycount-tw4ix ah it worked! I was loosing it, thanks for this work flow, killer job

[@nohnohnoh]

So is this in blender 4.2 or will it be in 4.3

[@Polycount-tw4ix]

Itll be 4.3 :)

[@nohnohnoh]

@@Polycount-tw4ix so hyped like bl4.2 already has some big improvements .

[@system-qn2hb]

i bet your channel is gonna blow up. this is the first video I've seen and I subbed from it. all I ask is that you don't make tutorials using the nth boring instagram egirl looking ass character like so many others do. it's physically painful to look at. the subjects of the videos you've already got are great

[@Polycount-tw4ix]

Thanks! Appreciate the sub!