HERO - Blender Grease Pencil Showcase

[@jamesjason8471]

Let's all appreciate the animators too, not just the tool.

[@sosasees]

Yeah aggree Boiiiiiiii!

[@sasaha8389]

Yeah the animators know the Tricks to make good use of the tool

[@zxl-todays-world]

Not Just The animators. The storyboarders, sound editors, Soundtrack artists, all of it should be highly appreciated.

[@missionpupa]

@@zxl-todays-world also their parents and uncles and brothera and sisters and grandparents.

[@coreyd3057]

But not just the animators, but the women and children too!

[@GlebAlexandrov]

The breakdown is a brilliant move!

[@Leo-lr2qx]

The best part of it to me :)

[@justsomegreendude9034]

Yes

[@YGODueltainer]

I agree the breakdown viewport looks so confusing to us non animator .

[@RMAnimations]

The best "why not both" moment of all time. 2D and 3D animation can now collide in a single workflow

[@welovethesnorks]

...uhhh..... bro are you okay

[@RMAnimations]

@@welovethesnorks ?

[@dibbidydoo4318]

@@welovethesnorks why wouldn't he be?

[@laithhab]

it is so useful aswell so if you wanted to just map out your 3d animation

[@biblesforbreakfast]

Maya's Grease Pencil Tool: Crashes when making basic sketches Blender: Let's animate a film

[@CopperStarToons]

YESSS!! Grease Pencil is awesome!

[@katomiccomics202]

Other software: “no! You can’t just make Blender an all in one program, you’ll kill the competition!” Blender: *haha features go brrrrr*

[@CopperStarToons]

LOL

[@jadeasereht4638]

Adrian Vegas Haha meme to brrrr

[@parentheses7777]

I wish it killed the competition...

[@mr.joesturr5032]

and make it free!

[@justsomegreendude9034]

@Adrian Vegas haha you go toxic

[@CGGeek]

Wowza! Did not expect something that cool. (Immediately fires up Blender and starts playing with Grease Pencil.)

[@canzanblend9536]

we look forward to a future tutorial :)

[@beatboxdailyshorts5885]

I had never believed that pencil actually could be used properly to create something like that

[@bronzekoala9141]

@this guy not in it's current state but there is a branch for it that will be part of 2.8

[@hugoantunesartwithblender]

Luciano A. Muñoz Sessarego It has different brushes, you can choose pencil

[@ryanbarr2178]

This would be impressive for software built exclusively for 2d. The fact that blender can do this is utterly mind blowing!

[@Charely1925]

Autodesk: You can't make professional 3D animation using blender. It's for hobbyists. Blender: Cosmos Laundromat, Agent 327, Big Buck Bunny. TVPaint: Well at least we all know that blender can't do high end 2D animation. Blender: Hero Autodesk and TVPaint: Oh come on!

[@MrGamelover23]

Charely1925 Haha!

[@peatral]

Y'all forgot about the fact that After Effects should be pissed off when Blender comes around with Tears of Steel.

[@sergiosierra6849]

I just graduated from my bachelor's in industrial design, and i learned a lot of software (not on a pro level tbh more like a low medium) but i can tell that i fell in love with blender,this is perfect for all what is neded in a project vizualization (architectural too) and it's free, easy, and there's lot of people helping on the net. I hate maya, max, sketchup, zbrush, and all that complex shit that you need a lot of tweak and IMPORT/EXPORT to get something good.

[@guywire3649]

@Caetano Veyssières Bahaha Godot! Man, it was a cool concept but man it was a pain In my ass. I'm shocked I found someone else talking about it lol

[@DerNivel]

@@guywire3649 Did you try the new Godot 3? Sounds like you're not up-to-date.

[@tyennille]

Why comply to "industry standard" when you can be the standard

[@patentlypaul1832]

Because according to an interview of the founder of Blender, it requires a poprietary license from Autodesk, which is impossible to comply with a fully open source project

[@Pilchard123]

Sure, but be careful: that way lies IE6.

[@Millenia3D]

Blender is awesome but i wish it wasn't so fucking arcane to use compared to the "industry standard" apps, i just can't wrap my head around the UI/workflow.

[@koda3452]

@@Millenia3D 2.8 is alright, but you're not wrong

[@yash1152]

@@Millenia3D i would agree with u if had u been saying this 2-3 years ago, but since 2.8 is around, I totally disagree with you pal.

[@rajkaran7865]

Blender the beast. I'm really proud of hero team.

[@Murika]

sooo proud!

[@fsiddi]

Congratulations to the HERO and the Grease Pencil teams for showing how the creation of Open Content is incredibly helpful for the development of better software!

[@harshsrivastava5640]

Blender has gone next level. Watch out Autodesk!!!

[@morname8731]

too late to watch out.

[@DavidBoura]

Blender needs Datasmith.

[@fakecubed]

Maya and Houdini are both trembling a bit at the sound of Blender coming up behind them, nowadays.

[@carolinehan2073]

I love this film! Each man is a hero to his own side.

[@adhritgulati6794]

yeah me too, I just want to watch this over and over again

[@nusaibahibraheem8183]

A concept some people don't understand. Am also inclined to think that the first hero actually stole it to provide electricity, it wasn't what it was used for originally.

[@artistCDMJ]

I love the use of 3d objects as a reference for painting the grease pencil and then animating the gp movements - that is a familiar thing for me :D

[@timotheefalzon9091]

Kind of "virtual" rotoscopy

[@Murika]

Craig, how do you make it? I thought it was still being developed? I tried to use the GP but really couldn't make it.

[@artistCDMJ]

When I say "that is a familiar thing for me" I mean in the area of my own use of blender, where I will model a simple object or sculpt something and then use it as a brush image to paint into my canvas, and then paint on top of that so actually taking away the 3d look of it and bringing it back into the look of the painting. I'm sorry if it sounded like I was using GPencil in animation already, as this is an area i still need to explore.

[@josephbrandenburg4373]

Murika You have to download the development build. There's a buildbot for it somewhere on the Blender Cloud, look on the blog. Or you might compile it yourself. It's part of the 2.79 master branch, and they're gonna merge it with 2.8 during the code quest.

[@RedMountMedia]

Yes, very helpful! Clever technique too :D

[@BlenderWeapons]

I loved that Breakdown.

Wow! And i use grease pencil just to make reminders around my scenes in the form of ugly arrows.

Caetano Veyssières Terrible, horribly ruined arrows everywhere. No symetry, no equal proportions, no general direction... Chaos. A new point of view about: "O Lord, deliver us from the arrows of the Hungarians!"😂

[@Brickerbrack]

György Mohl Next step, prettier arrows. 😋

[@conansanimations5085]

I'm pretty sure your using annotations. Not the grease pencil.

[@CopperStarToons]

I just started my animation KZbin channel, and I use Blender Grease Pencil to animate!!

[@stephenhargreaves9011]

I absolutely love the plot, and how it turns perceptions on their head. Not to mention, kudos on the production.

[@olfmombach260]

I genuinely enjoyed that story, well done!

[@akiratoons]

Dude, I am so damn excited about this! The grease pencil, and Eevee? It's just too much to not be hyped.

[@ronnetgrazer362]

Plus better asset mgmt, cloud integration, new collections feature, workspaces, plus loads more stuff under the hood. It will be fucking glorious.

[@MrGamelover23]

Ron Netgrazer Wish they'd do a kickstarter. I know they sold flash drives for code quest but those prices were ridiculous.

[@lisabarnes924]

Zinogg When I think of EEvEE, I think of Pokémon. (Is it related to Pokémon in anyway?)

[@manuelelizalde8882]

flareon :v

[@softwarelivre2389]

@@lisabarnes924 Yeah, it was named after the pokemon.

[@megamaster7667]

Ohh man 2.8 is going to be AMAZING!

[@johnnydwicked]

CAN'T WAIT FOR THE OFFICIAL BUILD to be released! xD

[@johnnydwicked]

革命 not that I no of. :(

[@DxTrixterz]

I believe they stated that they want to release at least the beta by Siggraph 2018 which I believe is sometime in August.

[@3Rton]

They want to have some kind of build ready by Siggraph (for 2.8) that is more "done" than the daily builds we are getting now. Whether that is Release candidate or public beta or whatever I've got no clue. But currently Ton wants to have something "presentable" for Siggraph. Stable release probably won't come before Christmas season or even early next year, though. (Well depending on what you consider "stable")

[@Sylfa]

They sold some exclusive merchandise to fund the core team to get together this summer to get the beta out around august. It was very successful and they could finance double, maybe triple the duration of stay for the core team. Of course, the team has lives of their own. So while they agreed to go abroad to do a big push for some time (I forgot exactly how long, 2 months?), doubling or tripling that time is probably unrealistic. Hopefully they can make use of the money for speeding up the release some other way. Either way though, it looks likely that they will hit their goal of beta this year. I don't know if they have a goal for release, I heard early next year or late this year to be a tentative goal, but that wasn't even set in sandstone so.

[@junito1957]

oct 2019

[@KatsPurr]

As a 2D artist just getting into 3d, this news excites me immensely!

[@julianapegas2043]

I love how you make your tech showcases with such thought-inspiring narratives! I loved this one and Coffee Run!

[@jacobserroels6567]

3d modeling with ink lines over the top? This is literally how they made spider-verse and its one of the greatest animated films of the year if not all time. This new blender is extremely powerful

[@blundy1]

This is so cool. Absolutely amazing animation and some fantastic ideas here. The lightning scene where the jetpack guy is falling is fantastic.

[@AlonDan]

Impressive and inspiring! I hope to see better filling / paint options in the future of Blender's Grease Pencil. :)

[@noahsmith3581]

I messed around with the GP branch a bit, and thankfully they've got the bucket fill tool working properly now. I guess the reason in the credits they did the fill the way they did was because the bucket fill wasnt done yet.

[@AlonDan]

Sounds great! thanks for sharing your experience Noah. :)

[@noahsmith3581]

Sure thing!

[@themoltron]

I love how you start out thinking the Hero is one guy and then flips it on you at the end. Great action and story.

[@Nierez]

In a way they both are. To their fellow countrymen that is. Great story

[@mohamedatef9688]

It is very nice to see how much blender has improved .

[@SeianVision]

Who is the hero then? Daniel and his team are the heros

[@CTRL_SMarcos]

Wonderful! The wait was worth it. Thank you so much : ^ )

[@tjiiik]

Jesus Christ, I mentally can't believe this is a feature in Blender. This is the most technologically advanced thing I've ever seen in so many years!

[@oenvoyage]

Congratulation to Daniel and the whole team! A great shot + love the breakdown.

[@paolofurani]

An other mile stone, impressive, I use Blender since 2000, and i still get surprised..

[@LifeAsANoun]

I saw this as part of a talk espousing the awesomeness of Blender, and simply had to look up the original so that I could add my Like and view to the total count. Cool artwork, great story, solid implementation of the powerful tools at disposal for the project.

[@r.pizzamonkey7379]

The sense of motion and acceleration in this is insanely good

[@sergei9912]

Are you kidding me ?! This is exactly what I wanted for a long time !

[@orozcoapaza1660]

Que hermosa historia, realmente el heroe de unos es el villano de otros........ , ademas que poderosas herramientas tiene Blender !!!

[@ureekaanimation8127]

Fantastic! Blender is fast becoming my one-stop-shop for anything animation. Great job 'Hero' team!

[@Drstrange3000]

Damn!!! Absolutely beautiful! The combination of 2D and 3D Animation is the best, imo! Brings the strengths from both and fuses them together!

[@NeilOosthuizen]

Seeing the creation process at the end of the video is like seeing a magic show... it amazes me to no end...

[@tonyayoub1961]

Blender keeps impressing me not as free software but as an art piece , thanks guys

[@virgodmonkey]

Bravo! The end result and tools look amazing.

[@generalfishcake]

Just amazing. Mad props to everyone involved with this project. Amazing work and a great overall feeling.

[@Lymboever]

My congratulations, hero crew, you're literally my heroes showing the awesome future to animations industry and open source.

[@parkflyerindonesia]

I knew Daniel since the early times of 3D Studio Max. One of a kind exceptional CG artist among some like Gary Davis, Wayne Robson and few more. Another groundbreaking yet entertaining short. Salute!!

[@cgbintang]

Great as always !!! Our 2d team here must know this

[@domonkosszakaly4328]

Omg, that sphere storm thing at the end! It's amazing, i never would have thought of that!

[@amayyaduvanshi2706]

I always wondered why did they called it blender, but now I know why, this masterpiece software can blend into anything, be it animation in 2d or 3d or mixing the both!

[@amayyaduvanshi2706]

@@randomperson9133 man you are sooo late 😂😂

[@sambrubaker2274]

That breakdown... I just learned more about 2D workflow in two minutes than from 10 hours of tutorials...

[@SumanTiwariNamaste]

Very STRONG plot, and Flawlessly executed.

[@GreenCappuccino]

i like to imagine the magic rock as a Suzanne head

[@Brickerbrack]

Brian Lu Headcanon'd so hard! 😂

[@SammyDoesAThingYT]

This is why I love Blender. They always surprises us with every update.

[@claudiolluberes111]

Woah this is too good! Blender is getting really powerful, I still can't believe is free! This will help me a lot.

[@Creeamie]

those five dislikes are autodesk users

[@yakoublat02]

lol both of them 😂

[@paramelofficial9100]

or employees..

[@Idk56793]

there probably critics

[@spaceman4313]

Why are attacking users of other products Jerk.

[@shreyassawant04]

It's 64 ! Now it's half of the whole Autodesk team

[@jaffry5663]

Every day i notice that the only limit for Blender is our own imagination! Congratulations!

[@hebertdesouza1129]

The world needs more people like you Blender foundation.

[@pbn1]

love watching DML's progression - cracking Blender demo!

[@sparkybleu]

This was beautiful thank you to Blender and the animators behind it! This is a very good showcase of what Blender is capable of.

[@LeethLee1]

Absolutely inspiring, fantastic work. I am so keen to incorporate more 2D into my animations thanks to these great updates to Blender. A wonderful showcase for the tools. Congrats all!

[@jacx_ai]

I love how the story kinda interprets that everyone is a hero in some ppls eyes an a villan in others eyes

[@E.A.M.]

This is my favorite blender movie!! Absolutely epic!!

[@kuruvillamani4204]

I won't pretend that I know what grease pencils are. But DAYUMN that story is a killer. Loved how they changed it around.

[@shegsdev]

Awesome watch. I can't wait for the official release!

[@tyborg314]

The story was pretty cool. The hero turns out to be the guy we initially thought was the villain. This seems like an homage to 'the avatar' in a way. Awesome software, it's so cool to see the scene in the 3d environment like that, like its own little world =P

[@cliffblank]

Your 2D-3D blending training is now complete young Padawan. May the Force be with you.

[@laporte1625]

Nice short, but above all: WOOOOOW! Blender is absolutely blowing my mind with the near infinite possibilities it is developing!

[@TheJobCompany]

This is REVOLUTIONARY! It'll change Blender forever.

Wooow! Congrats to the team, I agree with Gleb, When you see the breakdown you amaze yourself even more. The possibilities are endless, a new door is opened

[@hectorrojo8486]

beatiful short! and the breakdown... wow, shows all the effort that it takes to make it happen, congratulation to all!

[@vfn4i83]

Great animation, looking forward for more community and professionals works with it. Thank U for keeping bigger dev houses on they're toes.

[@Osatarium]

Great work Blender ! It is good to see that all features of Blender are being introduced in such a proving way. Blender skeptics definitely will have some other thoughts as they watch this.

[@sal9371]

Amazing job guys, let's conquer the world with blender!!!

[@bobbyreyes6609]

That was awesome. I'm learning to use grease pencil now.

[@mazigane4057]

Thanks Blender Fundation for this wonderfool tool, I'm very excited waiting for the 2.8 version

[@noahsmith3581]

Dang, that was awesome! Can't wait for these features to be released!

[@kirillgromadko]

Brilliant project! I can't wait to know more about it! :)

[@MU-channel]

and nature wins!... Nice story.. loved the design and the color scheme! Cheers!

[@Lohiau1]

EPIC!!! I love it. And the breakdown is amazing. Only minor complaint: I wish it would come with more frames per second, feels a little jagged at times.

[@Eleton]

I just scribble with my grease pencil. But the Hero looks very awesome!! Thank you guys for sharing 🙂

[@casekocsk]

Incredible! We need part 2! We need more movies like this!

[@litterbugger]

It's WONDERFUL. I'm so excited for this software!

[@AndrewWooldridge]

This is an incredible work of art. It's so great to see how tools + talent can make something new and amazing.

[@SpencerMagnusson]

Loved the breakdown! And I'm glad that the story matched the quality of the animation.

[@borakian]

Wow, blown away!! Truly amazing effort guys very inspirational work.

[@zachawee06]

SO AWESOME!!!!! Great job guys!!!!!

[@aixalancasl7340]

Enhorabuena!!! Blender 3D/2D ahora

[@jenovaizquierdo]

It is just WOW. Awesome work Blender.

[@BlackJaguarTV]

ok now i'm hyped for that grease pencil :O

[@jorgeparalisis9309]

Thanks Blender animation studio, Blender cloud, Blender cloud Subscribers & Blender community suport, Sequele please!

[@OscarNebeAbad]

Eras un crack cuando te conoci a traves de Marcos Fajardo (Macross) en cgtalk y otros foros, con la alpha de Arnold y el pedazo de animacion de Pepe y los cursos de Max, y aqui de nuevo sigues siendolo mostrando al mundo lo que puede hacer un buen software 3D. Un abrazo al equipo y a ti Dani, referente.

[@elayarajajothi8457]

Woooaaaaaaw it was amazing defenetly blender is the feature of 2d animation I was inspired now I am gonna try blender grease pencil

[@sosasees]

Before Blender 2.8, I thought 2D animation is dead. This changed my mind. Now, I think, traditional 2D animation is still dead, but digital 2d animation was revived and made much easier by Blender 2.8's new and improved grease pencil tools. This is very good, because I liked 2d animation art styles very much.

[@robinbutler7530]

Blender just keeps getting better, wow!

[@AbrahamMast]

The story really 'drew' me in ;)

[@Newton_animation]

this awesome never thought this grease pencil would be super cool

[@irfanshaik1302]

Damn!!!! Why is no one talking about the story of this animation 🔥👌👏

[@_jj_9820]

Really cool technology and story!

[@ahltrinai3561]

I love it! I'm working on a new animation, and I'm going to be using Grease Pencil again.

[@DolfVeenvliet]

This may be the best blender movie yet!

[@jakescartoons6045]

This looks pretty cool. I think I might actually use this tool... as soon as I actually learn how to use Blender in the first place.

[@vbs2d_Art]

AWEEEESOME!!!!!!!!! Congratulations for the impressive work!