My Blender 2D/3D Process with Grease Pencil

[@human47134]

I've watched a ton of blender tutorials and your way of explaining everything is THE BEST. You explain EVERYTHING with a simple "why" without over explaining or not even saying how or why. I hate it when people just move so fast you don't even see what they clicked on you have to pause it 100 times and then they don't even tell you WHY. This was perfect. Thank you!!!

[@blackopscg]

This video just looks like 25 minutes, but I spend more than 3hours to learn it step by step; Thanks again.

[@Damian_DH]

processing the information u are receiving is one of the most time consuming activities. Now think about 28 hours course it can take months.

[@thehungryrabbi]

ONLY 3?!? you must be quick!! hahah 0 0

[@KidBowsur]

Be proud. That's realistically how a tutorial should be consumed. That's why real classes take weeks. Cant process all that info in 25 minutes

[@oldchild527]

Thats really an achievement, to me it should be like a day

[@zsasz4370]

Bro it took me a total of 6 hours from start to finish haha

[@luckyhappy65]

Thank you so much!

[@cheeksblaster6000]

Grease Pencil is an untapped section there really aren't many videos about it, keep at it and you'll see enormous growth on youtube in my humble opinion. Great video

[@lacruzo]

thanks, so kind of you to say!

[@apl1324]

I agree and your voice is easy to listen to and understand

[@Dantti]

There are, you just need to dig harder 😅

[@lacruzo]

@@Dantti yeah I think you're a great example of that Dantti! 😊

[@Dantti]

@@lacruzo thank you man! ❤️

[@Lanfeust91]

I am absolute beginner in Blender and I have been able to reprodure 99% just following your intructions and pausing to check your keybinds! Amazing result, I leaned a lot. Will try to do other items by myself now!

[@Scobbo]

For a tutorial that was not for beginners and won't go in depth, I felt like this went a lot deeper than I was expecting. It was still pretty easy to follow and things were explained for someone who doesn't really use blender to often like me. Thanks dude, this looks great!

[@pwnisher]

Great vid man! What an awesome style!

[@mysiph]

cool seeing you here!

[@lacruzo]

means a lot coming from you, appreciate that man!

[@torikenyon]

if BMO was a vending machine

[@prometheuszero9]

Dang, this is a great video! Not only helpful for the style I am working on for my 3D but there's also lots of useful shortcuts in here that I hadn't learned yet, like using Alt + D so that the copied meshes will change whenever the source mesh changes. There were a few others that I wasn't aware of as well but I forgot them... gonna rewatch and take notes! Edit: Oh yeah, Ctrl + F2 to rename multiple objects. Nice!

[@MattBixler]

8:57 this blew me away. not only do i love being able to play with my background color without honking my whole lighting setup, i've also been trying to figure out a better way to draw in blender with an image reference, and i think this might be the solution. thank you so much!

[@DavidHughes-hv7rl]

Thanks!

[@lacruzo]

Thank you so much!

[@sincerelytheo]

Oh my god i was agonizing over trying to figure out how to create this style in blender less than a week ago, and now the perfect video lands right in my recommended. Thank you for making this!!

[@piorism]

FYI you can avoid the workaround of having to manipulate the object in order to review it from different angles, by enabling "View Lock > Camera to View" for the main camera. That way you'll be able to navigate/rotate the viewport (from within the camera view, hence showing the camera-generated GP lines) without having to worry about the lines shifting from the object.

[@lacruzo]

good tip, thanks!

[@colinredwood]

I come back to this tutorial once a week to relearn parts that I forget. Thank you!

[@HrAz_Works]

What did you do for "shader to RGB" ? It seems like this note does not exist in blender 4.2

[@colinredwood]

@ it only appears in eevee, not cycles. Make sure you are using the eevee render engine. I’m using blender 4.3 and I have it.

[@wahyu4853]

> Found this on my recommendation > Great video with clear explanation > See the channel and this is the only tutorial video I hope i get to see more of your blender videos and thank you for sharing

[@lacruzo]

thanks for the kind words! If I have more to share I will ^^

[@andreagosto]

Grazie.

[@lacruzo]

thank you!

[@ixxenangora3367]

I've only just started learning blender (made The Donut and a cat tutorial) and this is the first I've seen of grease pencil. I love this style - this will be next on my to do list!

[@Mistform3D]

Good stuff. I’ve been using Blender for two weeks. ( 8 years using Maya professionally). Seeing this type of freedom in work is refreshing.

[@lacruzo]

So glad to hear, thanks for checking it out!

[@KTheBoi]

Genuine question, did you stick with Blender's native user input setting or the one that mimicks Maya's? I've tried giving Blender a fair shake multiple times but always felt that interacting with the software is always a headache as a Maya vet

[@vuankhanhbeo]

@@KTheBoiI started with Maya set, and slowly adjust to my taste. So my current setting is some kind of Chimera fusion between Maya n Blender

[@sunkenblaidd]

just followed this start to finish thankyou!

[@IBubblesTV]

This is one of the best quick and easy tutorials on how to 2D/3D out there! Thank you!

[@lps-emily]

oh my gosh this style is so stunning!

[@lacruzo]

Thanks so much!!

[@maokus]

I love your work, thanks for sharing the knowledge :)

[@lacruzo]

My pleasure, I hope you liked it!

[@ashwin4302]

Never got into grease pencil and NPR until now. Great video and love the pacing of it.Hats off!!

[@pragnyajain254]

Loving the work flow 🫡🫡. We need more videos like this!!

[@lacruzo]

I'm so glad to hear! 😊

[@stache_obj]

great breakdown! didn't even know notice this was 25mins long. please. more!

[@_Cotton]

i just finished the donut tutorial and wanted to try a toon style, this video explained everything great

[@matts2080]

omg, making that line ooutine is so so SO much easier than most people's methods!!!

[@mathaeis]

This is wonderful and I cannot wait to try my hand at this. Thank you for your efforts!

[@theuntoldwizard6993]

Dear God!! You have no idea how much this video helped thank you

[@ItsWesSmithYo]

Really cool flow, really nice way to fuse 3D precision and Freestyle flow. Thanks friend. 🤙🏽🖤🧮

[@DomcroX]

Finally !!! A 2D/3D tutorial ! Thank you so much, waiting for the new videos !

[@Maxwelliswho]

Finally decided to try out the grease pencil after seeing this on tiktok. You absolutely rule, easy to follow along and so many small general tips that are valuable to remember. Again, you rule, thank you!

[@markrussell6012]

Maybe its just me, but during the inset part if it doesn't look properly proportioned, its because you need to apply all transformation by going into object mode, select the machine and pressing ctrl + a and press all transformation. vaguely remember this problem in the donut tutorial when making the bent sprinkle

[@dpahfl]

The algorithm brought me here and I've used Blender like once in my life but this was amazing!

[@milocero]

I loved this, thank you !

[@Mrs1xm]

this is the best one fr bro your node is simple and i finding gibli style for a month omg

[@phamhoangbao4378]

I'm having trouble recreating what you did in the video in Blender 4.2, especially with the shadow settings, and the colors aren't as vibrant as they were in your tutorial. Thank you for a great tutorial!

[@TheShadesOfBlack]

I've spent so much time looking up how to do outlines and cartoon shaders and NONE of them were as easy or as elegant as whats presented in this video. Incredible work.

[@lacruzo]

So glad I could help! 😊

[@giannis7707]

this technique could make some incredible borderlands renders ty for the tutorial

[@theunaimedarrow4903]

Great tutorial. I've been playing with Blender for a while, but have been afraid of grease pencil. This was a great intro.

[@jeremiestern]

It looks insane! I've always been scared to try grease pencil lineart, vut you make it look easy and make me want to try it out for myself! Thanks for the inspiration! (+1 sub)

[@lacruzo]

thanks so much for watching!

[@RavenclawNimbus]

Same! I was actually shocked by how easy it looked

[@Aelo9975]

i loved this. thank you very much. keep up the great work

[@technoschnauzer4327]

I had no idea about the Free Style Edge thing!! Thanks for this video it was really great :D

[@micmacha]

I've found that you can also render to transparent (with "Film" under the render tab), and the in the compositor, alpha the rendered image over a background color or texture. It also solves the background lighting issue.

[@ConstantineG]

This looks fantastic... The details near the end really brought it to life. I wonder if it's possible to bake all of this in a way that can be transferred into a game engine such as Unity.

[@426F6F]

That would be a beautiful game!

[@taliyah._.8853]

You know how to bake it for Unity? idk how...

[@leonardotonietti2062]

Yeah that was what i was thinking too!

[@alexanderzet5028]

So is there a way?

[@artemecia6250]

@@alexanderzet5028 I think closest thing you could do is hand paint the outlines on an albedo, then make a shader that reacts to the colors inside unity like he set up here

[@ffurrr]

This is such a clear a good tutorial. It has helped me understand greasepencil better than any other tut. Really appreciate your hard work putting this together. Thank you so much!

[@ILLRICARDO]

stunning work, there is just so much to learn and not enough time, i wish there was a limitless drug that could enable me to learn everything in blender

[@ninko.biloba]

wahoo thank you so much, my first time on blender, and with your explonations i was able to follow every step!!

[@kurtc021914]

Wow ! I love it ! Thank you for sharing the process

[@roelthijssen2147]

This is awesome! Great job!

[@Gustoberg]

you just taught me some things that REALLY lacked in my models, thank you!

[@macwithamac]

this is really cool stuff. I wish C4D had this method!!! Thanks for sharing this.

[@sonixxsymbiote6711]

Ah thank you for this video, I was trying to figure out how to grease a edge for a while

[@Karmadeezy]

Another underrated blender KZbinr, This is absolutely amazing!

[@lacruzo]

Ah you're too kind! 😊

[@IM.Extreme]

I love this man seeing you channel for long time try to learn something new grace pencil 😊

[@Grimmona]

I just want to you thank you, this is great work and exactly what are looking for.

[@eobsinjart]

thank you for so much this! this is the only tutorial video that made me understand grease pencil more! :D cant wait to try it out again soon!!

[@lacruzo]

ahh I'm so glad to have helped! ^^

[@mwparker1969]

Incredible work! I love your style.

[@ErrorNotFound-jt2eq]

This was SO helpful for a newbie. I'd love it if you could mention any kind of keyboard shortcuts you're using to speed your process. It's really difficult to pay attention to the keystrokes in the corner while paying attention to what youre doing. You end up having to pause, slow the video down and backtrack repeatedly to try to see what youre doing with clicks and keys. Keep up the amazing work! much appreciated

[@Deffo-e123]

For the lines in detail you can use the line tool for cleaner lines, Great vid btw

[@loonymiko]

great video! learned a lot from simply just watching it. really appreciate how to have included the keyboard shortcuts. For a noobie like myself its very helpful. Keep up the good work and will also keep on following you!

[@R98rayan]

this is looks like Hi-Fi RUSH style!😍 I like it!🥰

[@bookle5829]

I now learn an alternative way to make outline of an object. Thank you. ^^

[@korewasaid]

Awesome video man!

[@bibinella]

Thank you so much for the vid! I'm a blender newbie (properly started maybe a month ago) and I have been checking out different tutorials for different styles I would love to explore using blender :3 Your tutorial is super clear and easy to follow, thank you for your hard work! After making my own vending machine I applied the grease pencil to another blender project (I made my own keyboard a couple of days ago, which I uv mapped with pictures of my actual keyboard haha) and made it look 2D just like in this one! Will follow for more stuff ^^ Keep up the good work

[@lacruzo]

Nice! So cool to hear you using these techniques in your own work ^^

[@ryvenzo]

You can build unique 3d environment with this kind of style

[@harrydsgn]

Unironically a great tutorial for some simple modeling things I wasn't aware of as a not quite total beginner. Love this!

[@HidinginPublic]

Fantastic work dude!

[@eggedface]

pretty easy to follow tutorial!! and the model looks very nice i quite like it a lot. also completely unrelated but your voice is very relaxing :3

[@slusheecat4462]

i didn't know you could automatically outline with gp!!! im so glad since i dont have a drawing tablet

[@juancarlosuribe]

Thanks for sharing this Oscar, what you lack in quantity you make up in quality, lovely work and content, just followed your tutorial and posted it on my IG, your content is gold!

[@zerotemporaryadministrator7512]

hank you for your tutorial. I followed this video to recreate the scene. It was my first time using this software, and I learned a lot. Thank you.

[@maheerzasfari8666]

thanks you, you have me learned and to teach me a little bit understand for the grease animation pencil🥰😁

[@sbiecoproductions6062]

Booom baby! What superusefull tootorial, well done mate

[@yezzzsir]

Great walkthrough! I haven't played with the Grease pencil outline modifier as yet, it looks pretty useful for Things I like to do. Thanks for putting this together. 🙂

[@harrypham6337]

Love the vibe of this style. You get inspired to me !

[@vincennaa]

Thank you for showing me this process! Even tho my milk cartoon doesn't look that decorated with the grease pencil atleast i know the process. Thank you again! :D

[@SalahAbdullah97]

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks a lot!

[@Cataclysmika]

So glad that I found this video! I am super inspired by the Across the Spider-verse movie and am learning animation. I think this tutorial will really help me with what I want to do!

[@lacruzo]

So glad to hear that!

[@SJQuayle1]

Absolute legend. Thanks so much for this. Can’t wait to see more from your channel 🙌🏻

[@Alifkbr]

this feels like a paid course, excellent work man keep it up, subbed!

[@luluskuy]

Trully amazing, will save it to watch again later

[@JoniMercado]

Incredible video. Never used GP. I was never interested on it. Until now. Your video and content was mesmerizing for me.

[@lacruzo]

that's lovely to hear! ^^

[@EpicFables]

Great video, love that look, hopefully can give this a go when I get 5!

[@samsonxon]

Very cool video, been looking for something like this for some time. Really enjoyed the tutorial, please consider creating some more videos.

[@yaB0i_Hawkx]

this is so cool aaaaa

[@Channel-eh]

This is one of the best KZbin tutorials I've ever followed. The result turned out great. Thank you!

[@stephenfurber8255]

I’ve been waiting for a grease pencil tutorial for ever

[@raihanpurwandaru9483]

Would love to see more of this. Great video, I adore the chill vibe. :)

[@MHTutorials3D]

Wonderful job !

[@chloefields342]

oh my gosh this is awesome!! i never knew how grease pencil worked, but this was super helpful, thanks so much!!

[@lacruzo]

I'm so glad to hear it! 😄

[@DimaShishkov]

Excellent tutorial and wonderful result.

[@DarcyCardinal]

I'm just beginning to learn Blender and this tut is interesting because I have some great ideas on how to use this tool. I got to learn more basics of Blender first, but I like what this tool could do!

[@NicoleSummer8]

Awesome and love the style of this art! ❤😂👍💪👏

[@MugsVR]

THAT IS SO COOL! I love how it combines 3d art with 2d art.

[@gryzman]

amazing. I could watch this for hours, but would love to learn how to d these things - from basic levels.

[@alexeypraprin]

Just wow!) I definitely should make some mesh in this style!!)

[@merrickkelley9414]

Thanks, this was a really great introduction to learning the grease pencil

[@ranjeetkumarverma5098]

Please make more videos of blender series you teaching style is awesome

[@mugincoffe]

Exactly, what I needed. That's some gold content here, so I'm definitely subbing