How to Create 2D Animations - Beginner Blender Tutorial

[@rworld1741]

Great Video. I always watch your videos to learn blender function and animation. Your videos help me a lot to learn blender.😃😄

[@ibrahimimran5318]

first reply

[@rakesmaharzan3890]

@LORENZO SELLA first reply

[@thinkgrape4348]

@@rakesmaharzan3890 first reply

[@murdaek.9658]

How do you get to the 2d animation state where you can actually draw, whenever I open it up it always has a 3D grid

[@kaliflower_]

@@murdaek.9658 If you open up blender and it opens to a 3d grid, click files and click new. Then click 2D animation. Hope this helps if you're still struggling

[@it5mepatr1ckdev30]

3:21 1st method of 2d animation, 19:43 2nd method of 2d animation, 23:23 3rd method of 2d animation.

[@abrahamderechte1590]

Thank you🙏

[@sugarpiez1922]

Bless you sweet person

[@norplain6889]

tysm

[@yenotov462]

thanks!

[@Loganischeese]

thx

[@dakotam2800]

The video starts at 3:21

[@crazeecat7441]

Dakota Mark, thanks for saving me 3 minutes (:

[@danielcraft1236]

Thanks allot

[@Its_sabribri]

Thank you thank you thank you!!!!

[@flowler60]

thx m8

[@JAROME74]

Thanks cus this guy is a chatterbox.

[@Mopsspoof]

I’m actually quite glad 2D animation can be achieved with Blender. As doing smooth camera movements in an editing program separately is annoying.

[@getrekt3983]

i think you and the phrase "from scratch" have to spend some time getting to know eachother

[@flamecrew9atroblox958]

Lmao

[@24Nyome]

This is such a sick burn

[@KEWLgg]

He literally says at the beginning of the video that he will be performing a review during the tutorial so I don't understand the complaints. This video still provides good information on the program.

[@rhettohlerking2446]

This isn’t really and beginners tutorial. I can’t find any videos on what everything does or why each button does what or even how to start animating.

[@abdullahyusuf2929]

Just mess around and you'll learn through experience. If you really wanna know what a specific button does just search it up and you'll probably find an answer.

[@golden4593]

You should try a course in udemy.

[@incorefiber1937]

I feel your pain same thing happens to me but you and I both shall learn it someday

[@h3egypt]

@@incorefiber1937 I'm looking... have you had any luck

[@TaigiTWeseFormosanDiplomat]

Do it in hours and you may find out or just sleep on your tablet.

[@micmacha]

This really is a great tutorial for the additional features Blender provides for 2D animation, so thanks. As a general helpful rule, I usually make each specific object in my frame a different stroke; that simplifies adding keyframes.

[@alicksuen7060]

plot twist:he made this video just so he could finish his animation

[@helloworldxd]

Thanks for the facts

[@intelligence6743]

Lol😂

[@rishabhanand5563]

He made this video because Wacom told him to endorse their product😂😂

[@faizraza6945]

exactly i did not find anything for beginners

[@Chillerll]

plot twist: he made this video just so he can advertise that tablet

[@RandomDoive]

Thank you so much. Spent hours getting more and more confused about this and got nowhere :)Working now, thanks!

[@growingoaks]

Bro I swear that Skill Share sponsors every KZbin video. 😂

[@kziel123]

I love how he says there are 3 things we will be looking at (0:17) and then he has to look at his fingers to make sure he has the right number of fingers sticking up. Classic!

[@MrAer85]

CG GREEK THE BLENDER FREAK. You are the No1!

[@BC-bd4kr]

It's bad enough that KZbin makes me watch commercials, but then I watch a tutorial and half of it is a commercial for a notebook computer.

[@adaptiveplexus]

Wacom commercial brought to you by Skillshare supported by Patrion

[@ParanoidFactoid]

I thought the same thing. Really frustrating.

[@thundaga4005]

@@ParanoidFactoid - Frustrating, huh? How much did you pay to watch this tutorial, asswipe?

[@ParanoidFactoid]

@@thundaga4005 Let's just say, the CG Geek watch retention declined by just a little when I clicked away after I realized this is a 31m advertisement.

[@pajeetsingh]

Patrion. Lmao

[@noahsduck4109]

@@thundaga4005 it's actually illegal to not mention that something is sponsoring so I hope he doesn't get in trouble

[@Kalam_Ullah654]

Your Thumbnails are telling us in advance that you're doing good every time ❤️🔥💯

[@KayGee_yt]

HOW TO OPEN 2D ANIMATION (AKA GREASE PENCIL) 1. when you open blender you are greeted with a 3D grey box. Doesn't look like what he has set up, does it? Never fear! 2. In the top menu next to "file", click the blender logo (maybe be different on macs) 3. Select "splash screen" 4. In the pop-up under "new file" select "2D animation" 5. Congrats! You've made it :)

[@somebodyyouneverknew1095]

Thank you

[@catchyou29]

Too much advertising for the graphics tablet. Otherwise good video.

[@zahin2756]

Yes

[@thundaga4005]

I guess you want a refund of the money you paid to watch this tutorial, numbnuts.

[@brightgarinson3099]

@@thundaga4005 STFU shill.

[@xx_nou9642]

Yea his advertisement makes want to me hate the tablet itself

[@radicalleavemealone-ist7751]

On the bright side, it is one of the good ones, as opposed to the inconsistent budget junk that chinese companies push out.

[@deadroses7500]

Thank you for actually leaving a link on where to download blender because unlike some other tutorials people never leave links.

[@ranchero5595]

Its because you can get it off steam. Which is a very common retail site.

[@SatouIlNekoPanzer]

i used to think everyone had CRAZY skills to be making these such good animations on a freaking computer, until i realized they were using a graphics tablet.

[@reno82]

You can also sketch on paper, scan and process it in a graphics software.

[@sebastiangudino9377]

@@reno82 That's what I do professionally as a graphic designer. Working with vector graphics takes a lot of time, but it also gives you a lot of control if you take the geometry into account from the start even before you take you graphics to the computers. Making your workflow while animating speed up quite a bit

[@meiji..]

@@sebastiangudino9377 interesting

[@Woef718]

I draw with a mouse just turn the sensitivity super low only problem i have is that all lines are the same since there is no pressure sensitivity.. i need to think about that

[@agw421]

@@Woef718 you could use the stroke width tool in illustrator. not sure if theres an equivalent feature/flow in blender

[@Ybc-hitter]

Thx man this is my first animation and it turned out amazing.

[@thewardejitzzz]

I’m telling ya if you weren’t here on KZbin I wouldn’t be an animator now.

[@spooky6763]

shiii

[@UnauthorizedExpression]

GREAT video. Very much needed. There are so few tutorials for 2d stuff.

[@Twixxy]

sub to my channel

[@xnetworkDEVILx]

yes please more 2d

[@Twixxy]

@@xnetworkDEVILx sub to my channel

[@callisoncaffrey]

Yeah, they always show of amazing stuff but never tell us how to make them ourselves. Like this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaLchZuvmMekj8k So it's much appreciated that someone finally makes 2D tutorials for Blender.

[@eugene9133]

Kims stop begging for subs

[@sofiaelassidi5185]

first three minutes are sponsors

[@harhallel]

#1: 3:21 #2: 20:01 #3: 23:40

[@avocado965]

Hallel Hartmann you’re a lifesaver

[@deft5475]

god like

[@Mrpaul20]

Lifesaver 😶

[@lINSULINO]

Life saver

[@xsneedzx]

King

[@Erikutis55]

I fall asleep before tutorial started... put your adverts at the end of the video. You prove during tutorial that people need those tools you just used . When someone spend 10min or 20min watching video, not gonna skip remaining 2 or 3 min to finish video. All the best!

[@MatthewofSparta]

I need more of these tutorials. Being this is a new feature in Blender, I haven't been able to find many tutorials for the 2d. Love it though! Thanks for sharing.

[@creeperbeeper2905]

its been more than a year.... but I clicked on the skillshare link and it still works

[@bb827avrosaha5]

Hi uncle. I am from Bangladesh. I am a student of class 7. I always try to make animation in blender or other apps by following the steps in your video. Thank you for helping me. Help me always like this.

[@moomooold]

can you do a tutorial on how to make 2d in a 3d animation, like the characters are 2d but the background is 3d

[@stickmation4540]

i did no understand

[@creeperthekingcreeper8234]

@@stickmation4540 he means these 2D animation thet look 3D. Like in most cartoons.

[@AnmolShelke]

Yeah it will be kinda helpful

[@realredkon]

Paper mario

[@victorryan8537]

Actually what I think he means something like play curious George the characters were like 2D but the background like the building or the balloons were 3D so I think what he's trying to say is like maybe he's trying to make like a movie that needs then has to require CGI and he needs to know how to do it like maybe he's trying to make a film The New York or underwater and all you need to do is animated characters and sometimes that stuff that they hold but most of the time it's 2D so my advice is to go and toriel of how to make 3D backgrounds but still have to the animated people in it that's my advice

[@kabirbuttan4705]

Get this guy to 1 mil plz

[@apparitionformat]

thanks!!!! im planning to do more professional animations and this worked! ive been confused about blender for months

[@Virgotin]

3 minutes, 21 seconds.. just starting the tutorial, NICE

[@MilleniumActress]

I have once again affirmed that I actually need someone next to me giving me instructions and fixing my mistakes. Great video though!

[@dragames]

I love how you start your beginner lesson with the set up already done :/

[@rogernkosi8420]

😂😂😂

[@sebastiangudino9377]

This is a chanel about blender, and the video is how to do 2D animation WITH blender (Instead of 3D animation, which is what you normally 2 with blender) This is not: How to do 2D animation in general for beginners This is no either: How to use Blender It asumes you already know how to use Blender (For other stuff) and how do 2D animation, either frame by frame or by keyframes. If you don't know any of those 2 things, that does not mean this is a bad tutorial, it's just not for you! You can learn the basics of blender in this and other channels like Blender Guru and stuff (Blender is for 3D tho, keep that in mind) and you can learn the basics of 2D animation in other places, i believe Alan Baker (I think that's not the name, but you can easily find it on KZbin) has a series of videos about the 12 principles of animation. And of course, in order to do 2d animation you have to know how to draw, or how to make some form of 2D graphics, and there are also a lot of videos about that here in the internet. But all of that is a skill set that takes a lot of time to develop, if you don't have any if them, a 21 minute tutorial is not going to turn you into an animator I will like to add tho, that if you are looking for 2D animation and don't know where to start, Adobe animate and adobe after effects might be what you are looking for as a beginner

[@dragames]

@@sebastiangudino9377 Wow, you typed a lot of shit. I know how to use some things in blender, and I know how to do 2d animation in clip studio and photoshop. That doesn't help when the layout for tools to get where the guy is is not explained. This isn't a beginner tutorial.

[@OculusLime]

I used this tutorial to make my animations! (At the time of writing, I uploaded 4) Thanks for making this very good tutorial.

[@bilalrehman6532]

right, without further ado at 3:23, amazing

[@banyalmahayni9048]

this was really useful, now i know how to do anything!!

[@Shawn-ok1fn]

You made my day a lot easier. Thank You CG :)

[@Ct-4756]

you deserve 5 mil subs

[@ENDTIMEsVideoLibrary]

It would be very helpful if you used a cursor with the Highlighted Circle because you go so fast it's hard to keep track of where your cursor is. And while the video is much appreciated.. Please Slow Down and Explain the steps you are taking to get where you are at for True Beginners. It's very easy to switch to your normal workflow as an Expert but beginners are here because we are trying to learn. Thank you again for your efforts..

[@VincentForDesign]

Playback speed will be a useful tool when learning on KZbin. I use it a lot.

[@CaliforniaandNevada]

I was always frustrated when I have to do frame by frame. Now I can do it!

[@CaliforniaandNevada]

why am me dumb

[@AnthonyMiele]

Wow! Thanks skillshare!

[@Steertanzer]

This is really cool! Thank you for this tutorial!

[@MilkyGamesOfficial]

This really helped! Thank you so much!

[@BackYardBoxGardening]

Advertizing of WAICOM tablet up to 3.21 then tutorial starts - you're welcome

[@jmcadoesvids359]

you are the best person ever thanks

[@michaeltyers7336]

Appreciate the video! I have 2 Wacom Tablets. An Intuos Pro Large from about 2014 and a Bamboo from around the same time. Barely used either of them but will probably try getting back into using them soon, especially when I switch to 2.8.

[@crazyideasno1]

Thanks CG Geek

[@dolebiscuit]

If anyone is going to spend $300+ on a tablet for drawing, they should just get a Huion Kamvas 16 pen display. You're getting way more for your money that way. Way way more. Thank you for the tutorial on rigging! It seems like it would save so much time to rig a 2D sprite for animation, rather than hand drawing each frame. Especially over the course of several episodes of a production.

[@elijahsmart-xv9fm]

i feel like am i 10 steps forward to my goal thanks man

[@jeffg4686]

Rigged 2d animation - never thought of it. Nice stuff. Grease pencil in 2.8 is pretty damn awesome.

[@Aydev2023]

Thank you very much for the wonderful explanation that you are creative

[@levidurant8187]

Bro thanks! using this video i was able to create my vary first 2d character animation!

[@nbentertainment3840]

please make a tutorial on how you make the background

[@bahasainggrisbersamaata1475]

Wanna be the part of the Blender community. Love this app. Blender 2.8 is so amazing. it runs well now on my low spec PC ever since I got the latest update. Looking forward to learning from Blender tutorials. Thanks. (Ata, Jakarta Indonesia)

[@rj-topmostsolutions4606]

if you guys are trying to move the character at 5:26 and not able to do so then select dot button option given below to the most left of key frame jump button it will turn into blue then you will be able to do same as he is doing in video.

[@zheep7729]

If you hate the tedious lock layers thing that doesn't work, lock the materials instead, it doesn't overlap you unlocked drawings and you can't select locked materials. This trick saved my life lol

[@karuzo4116]

i dont understand how u get there. where can i select 2d animation? how do i load images in the program which i want to animate? not really for beginners :/ idk

[@ProGamer2167]

Press New then 2d animation, to get the stuff in you simply import it like you would any other program

[@resourcerods]

On the splash screen (that little drawing with all ur saved files underneath that appears when u open blender) there is a button on the left that says 2D Animation, click that... ...other wise just hit ctrl + n or cmd + n for mac and click 2D Animation, I hope this helps :>

[@rishabhanand5563]

Yeah this video was not for those who are completely new to blender

[@Muffinzy]

thank you for the tutorials, really helps me

[@symbiohse]

Nice video, just bought a Wacom through your link

[@szekhar7602]

Awesome video, i want to do some animations, watches about 50+ tutorials,all "you can do it, just struggle a while" bullshit, until this. Thank you!!!

[@RonHicks]

Awesome tutorial😀 Thanks a bunch😀😀

[@Illustrations_by_1e]

thank you so much it was very helpful to watch this video

[@likhith-lexus]

Me: * pays for KZbin premium just to avoid ads * CG Geek: Hold my tablet

[@toapyandfriends]

😎sweet intros

[@rezuriplays]

GREAT VIDEO SIR IT HELPED ALOT sorry caps

[@sams_3d_stuff]

Interpolate ;) Cool vid man.

[@bohdan_lvov]

Bloody astonishing!

[@jbanimations8475]

Great video!

[@THEGAMER-dm2bp]

If Corona Virus was a person (2-D Animated Video) kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6u7n4KMp6h_qZY

[@Maisonier]

amazing video! the anime studios what software do they use? WIT Studio (attack on titan) for example ?

[@hamody238]

I think Adobe Flash for their 2d animation

[@anniemayparker4909]

This is an amazing tutorial, but I am having an issue when trying to parent the bones to the grease pencil drawing. Everytime I apply empty weights, the stroke and armature become one object and there are no vertex groups for me to individually select. Just wondering if I'm missing something :c

[@advait8767]

SAMEEE :(

[@zazatava9058]

CG Geek is Mr Miyagi of Blender.

[@rinluuc]

I've been searching tutorials and tips how to make explainer video animation in blender..I think this "how to 2d" video'll help me :3...

[@jakenorth4811]

This is a really great video. THank you!!

[@FriedFrogLegsAnimations]

Your animations rock!

[@DarryQueen]

Yessss! I think I'll give your method a try on my channel 😎😏

[@nossiro]

Thansk man, i am willing to learn animation, both 3d and 2d but i can't afford clip studio pain, u saved my life

[@milmil5350]

My concern is input lag. I noticed when you were first introducing that precision drawing the intuos had and you were trying to draw the foot. Rather than coming out smoothly, the ink stroke appeared in a laggy jittery way. Animating in that way, especially if you're drawing a lot of frames, is gonna be painful.

[@lagginator920]

Yah

[@spongebob03]

I have the same issue with my intuos. I didn’t know if it was my laptop or the tablet.

[@Monie71793]

That character is #BootyGoals. 😩😂😂💀 Jokes aside, I love your vids.

[@jeromeanderson316]

Thanks for the upload.

[@PendoStudio]

Hey, i just learned every thing in this video, very unique tutioral

[@maxwellharmon4172]

thanks for making this vid! I learned a ton! honestly though you should edit this down into a series of 3 or 4 vids. you could up your views without having to create more. just an idea.

[@Pearl1010]

Also it could be explained a bit better

[@gbemigaagbejimi8779]

u know so much about blender like you made it

[@rupeshahir9175]

Wow! Nice 🙂

[@Daylnlowk267]

even tho im late ur super helpful love u bro

[@palkeshrathore5320]

I am your biggest fan and I want to learn blender from you

[@Cors4air]

that Desktop shortcuts make my soul itchy want to tidy it up

[@THEGAMER-dm2bp]

If Corona Virus was a person (2-D Animated Video) kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6u7n4KMp6h_qZY

[@JoshuaDJoe]

So new to this, but always wanted to do animation of some kind. Thank you for the help, I do got a question, is this close to 3.1.0 or use same stuff? I do appreciate the help.

[@ankitminz5872]

Awesome overview

[@nilay3306]

Thanks for this tutorial

[@LLOYDKUNFOREVER]

if you ever get the chance, could you do a video on blenders odd method of handling an erase function. From what I have messed with, if you use bigger sized strokes, it doesn't allow you to erase the edges. it merely fades them out. I think this might be because blender is seeing the stroke as it normally would a much a smaller stroke and forces you to only erase from the center and shrink it down. I'm not great at wording things right so you might be confused, but I hope you understand what I am talking about.

[@jasoncatlyn7331]

Very nice and interesting tutorial!

[@SuperBootsTheDog]

its living heck to fill in the landscape

[@kurtmorgan5022]

If you're having trouble making the black lines show up black, click "view" at the top of the screen, check the box for "tool settings" and set the strength at the top of the screen from .6 to 1. That ate the last hour of my time.

[@rayzoldyck8044]

I think the respect I had for anime and hentai productions just went up a notch, if this simplistic animation takes so much skills then I can only imagine how much work they must do.

[@curtisnewton895]

this is more an ad for your tablet than a tutorial

[@denisavoicu2363]

This was super helpful thanks

[@VividLeon3106]

Brilliant video

[@completeedits5827]

hey CG Geek great video but I was wondering if you could show us how to make the background of these animations?

[@artymusoke1352]

draw them and drag and drop shld work. but i knw what u mean, i was hoping he wld start by teaching blender drawing interphase THEN animate. There is another blender studio tutorial that shows that , sowmerhe on youtube