NPR with Blender - Sticky Grease Pencil Showcase

[@nyuppo]

I love these videos, they really showcase how much is possible with blender with a bit of ingenuity. The on-the-fly shapekeys and sticky-GP for lighting adjustments would be key selling points of a standalone NPR render engine, but here it's some just internal tooling made to make artists' lives easier. Love this team, keep up the great work!

[@pablofournier8664]

I just wanna do cool stuff... 😂

[@adilali4966]

not to mention, we can either buy or build our own goo engine(RWBY style NPR animations)

[@kenseikc]

Pablico is a certified Giga Chad, I love you guys.

[@pablofournier8664]

yeah brother!

[@zizzonedibattipaglia6247]

He also has the same look 🗿

[@AdewaleBetiku]

It's amazing to see how much goes into something so small bit it's always fulfilling to see the final product.

[@Solanaar]

What I really appreciate about these is that it's a genuine look into how a small studio operates instead of the "entrepreneurial" style some other people use, to deliver this kind of content. While your studio is certainly just as stressful as any other company in the business it feels very authentic and like a place where creativity has room to breath and isn't suffocated by a hustle culture mindset. Just for that alone I love that you do this. It does a lot to represent the creative world!

[@pablofournier8664]

❤‍🔥

[@mihaistanciu464]

Amazing as always from Blender studio !!!

[@robinsonanimation]

pointint at the gigachad and himself was the best, he is practically his twin.

[@pablofournier8664]

💪

[@blenderdiscord]

I genuinely wish I possessed even a fraction of their exceptional talent.

[@pablofournier8664]

😍

[@Mettsemmel]

your future self will have that if you start working on it continuously and never quit :)

[@clonkex]

"This is good." "This is bad." "Make it more buff." lmao

[@pablofournier8664]

💪😎👍

[@ZebulonsPi]

I can see a lot of the style of Titmouse's work in this... Not saying anybody copied anything, just saying I could see a studio like Titmouse totally lean into this type of animation for some of their stuff. When costs and time goes down, they can produce more, and take more creative chances with their art. Love the direction Blender is going!

[@GyanPrakash]

This is Amazing!

[@fredymateodg]

Thank you, Blender! 💛

[@jeffeeeer]

This looks great! We would love to see some tutorial videos to learn how to use Grease Pencil 3 better.

[@MangaGamified]

Nice! can't wait to see some cowgirl action next!

[@pablofournier8664]

👀

[@nairocamilo]

😍😳

[@GaryParris]

Excellent, great to see as always!

[@Mostafa-pc3vd]

Pablico is a whole mood

[@rawls101]

Well done you guys!! Keep up the great work!!!

[@Pptanime]

That's amazing, I am waiting for it.

[@reberosman482]

this is my dream job

[@Amelia_PC]

That's great! It looks way more organic than most of the 3D attempts at a 2D look I've seen. Fantastic work here! I've been working on NPR, and when I watched some 2D Gobelins projects like Colza, Sundown, and The Alchemists, I noticed they didn't use character shadows -cel shading - but it still works perfectly. I'm going to try some tests without cel shading shadows too and focus more on the animation itself. I'm doing everything solo, so planning is key.

[@Zekium]

Is that the project that goes with the NPR integration project (Goo Engine) ?

[@pablofournier8664]

Nope, just normal blender, check the studio website (link in description) to see the process 🐮

[@thanjavurfarm7722]

Amazing 🎉🎉🎉

[@whatTheblue]

Make blender industry standard for anime!!!

[@pablofournier8664]

🐄

[@PollCreations]

Great!!!

[@iluv3dcr]

Nice!!

[@unicornhuntercg]

6:50 is this add-on publicly available ? I was looking for something exactly like that !

[@BlenderStudio]

Yes, you can try it out here: extensions.blender.org/add-ons/geonode-shapekeys/

[@BPDrej]

Now we need a Cowboi vs Asterius battle

[@njnjhjh8918]

What makes the on-the-fly shape keys different from normal shapekeys?

[@pablofournier8664]

you can do them on linked meshes, for the normal shapekeys the character need to be local

[@Nkanyiso_K]

😳 is Cowboi coming out before *Project Gold?*

[@pablofournier8664]

Project gold showcase is already out! check the videos in the channel 👍

[@Nkanyiso_K]

@pablofournier8664 oh wow, I was hoping it was just postponed 🙏🏽 thanks man

[@hireathecho4]

Any chance we could get access to sticky GP? It sounds quite nice...

[@pablofournier8664]

Sure!! Will be release soon at the blender studio website!

[@hireathecho4]

@@pablofournier8664 Thanks so much!

[@ericlarson7235]

@@pablofournier8664AMAZING! can’t wait. Thanks to you and your team for developing it!

[@hectormanuel8360]

When will we see the full short?

[@pablofournier8664]

😳

[@ukmonk]

Awesome thank you!! Will this rig be released please?

[@pablofournier8664]

yes! visit the studio website, link in the description

[@ukmonk]

@@pablofournier8664 awesome!! thank you so much!!

[@janvandertoorn]

Great stuff is this stick to geometry plugin available?

[@pablofournier8664]

Soon!!! At the blender studio website, Stay tuned!

[@Cartoonfixstudios]

This is soooo cool!! Making something look 2.D is so difficult. I which there was more about how to get the look. I am making a 2.D hybrid animation and still struggle with making the 3D match the 2d look. There needs to be more tutorials out there if there are. 😊 I to model the buildings on my set and then just paint over them. A lot of work but that’s been my workaround to get the hybrid look.

[@Cartoonfixstudios]

When you did paint over for the background buildings. 2:59, did you do the simple building renderings from the camera view and then paint over these? Sorry. I just want to learn more haha!

[@pablofournier8664]

The backgrounds are oversized render from the camera view of a 3d background and later Vivian did the drawovers and later we proyected them on some planes. Check the studio website (link in the description) if you want to see the whole process from beginning till end

[@Cartoonfixstudios]

⁠@@pablofournier8664thank you so much for the feedback. I usually oversized my background renders 4K is this still the best approach?

[@pablofournier8664]

@@Cartoonfixstudios when I said oversize I meant overscan (basically I took the camera movement and we rendered pass that movement, so al the animation will be with that background render). For the resolution of that rendered background image I'm not really sure, but 4k sounds good

[@ZulfiSuGheno]

9:33 are the proof why Rik works faster ?? lol

[@pablofournier8664]

😵‍💫

[@HinduNerd]

So?? Where is Sticky GP??

[@pablofournier8664]

you have one of the shots at the studio website

[@BlenderStudio]

Sticky GP is still currently being worked on at the Studio, but do keep an eye out as we do plan to make it available in the near future!

[@anandapadmanabhanvt]

So grease pencil is basically a 3d model with 2d texture? I thought it was plain 2d

[@pablofournier8664]

Grease pencil is 2d, but in blender is an object you can place in space. In this case, we projected the 2d into the 3d mesh. You can see the hole process in the studio website (link in description), I wrote a hole article about the process

[@kuronya3582]

Pikachu figure are... cursed

[@pablofournier8664]

Buff-kachu

[@modysk]

[@pablofournier8664]

🐂

[@OctatJesus]

I want blender help make cgi feature film

[@Mr.Indiyaah]

Can this 2D be done faster in Moho or toon boom harmony?

[@pablofournier8664]

if you can draw it, for sure, but the idea was to create a NPR project in 3D with the 2D anime style, check the studio website (link in description) to follow the process if you are interested

[@Oak_theory]

Plz do not add AI

[@jascrandom9855]

Blender will eventually need to add AI

[@pablofournier8664]

no AI was harmed in this video......yet 😎

[@Thats_Cool_Jack]

@jascrandom9855 as an artist and general computer user I absolutely hate it when the computer does anything for me within the creative process, absolutely kills the creative flow

[@jascrandom9855]

@@Thats_Cool_Jack So? Blender have something like Cascadeur that assists with Character animation. That could give productions with "Miraculous Ladybug" like budget Arcane-like quality in terms of character animation. AI in art doesn't have to be generative like Stable Diffusion. Blender already uses AI in denoising.

[@SanOcelotl]

AI is good in some stuff, as long as they dont add generative AI slop

[@Apipipo]

r4

[@heinrichhertzsprung6889]

What a piece of crap...

[@pablofournier8664]

it's bull-shit 🐂

[@heinrichhertzsprung6889]

@@pablofournier8664 muck