Storyboard with Blender's Grease Pencil: tips for your short film

[@cg_cookie]

Curious what Grease Pencil is? We have a brief overview video of it here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHPFnaqKrt-aqck running you through how to animate text in Grease Pencil. :) Happy Blending!

[@morefilmOfficial]

that was perfect. Please increase the storyboard tutorials in Blender and teach more techniques. Thankful

[@Dantti]

Grease Pencil is super versatile and fun to play with! Great tutorial Paul!

[@PCaggegi]

Thanks Dantti!

[@HalValla01]

I knew I recognized that voice when I clicked the video!! Feels like ages ago I was watching Paul's channel on the regular. A welcome sight and sound indeed!!

[@mmmk5385]

Thanks Paul!

[@johntnguyen1976]

Super excited for more of your Grease Pencil tutorials (and your upcoming course)....can't wait! This is the best of the Grease Pencil Storyboarding videos on the internet imho!

[@peasmaker7000]

I've been waiting for a video like this for ever! Thanls mate!

[@antoonsorg]

Thanks give me energy to do more greasepencil

[@filipemecenas]

Thanks alot , im learning Grease pencil for a few months , best work flow to this kind of storyboard , thanjs for thr info

[@chrisikathi]

Thank you s soo much!! For sooo much Input!!!!! 🤩😍

[@bloopboop9320]

The problem I'm currently having storyboarding in Blender is that I don't really see how it's faster than drawing out every panel and shot by hand in something like Storyboard Pro or even Procreate. I do a lot of action scenes and storyboard very long tracking shots and the vast majority of these can be thumbnailed and timed in roughly 1-2 hours max when using storyboard pro. At an average drawing time per panel ranging from 20-45 seconds, I just really don't see or feel a need for Blender. Most of the positives I hear about using Blender deal with the fact that you can do complicated 3D camera work; but in all honesty that seems to just double or triple the amount of time it takes to do a scene like that. Yes, the camera can move in 3D, but drawing that said camera move in 2D is a lot faster and visually more consistent. Half of the storyboards I see done in Blender look very janky and the timing/movement doesn't feel like an improvement over 2D usually because most storyboard artists don't have time to learn very fine camera movement skills. I'm still trying to learn Grease Pencil better and find a use for it, but right now it just seems like a much slower and more complicated way to do something.

[@kellyjohnson768]

Our Boy Paul is back at it !

[@CravenLovelace]

Really happy to see this. Solid Grease Pencil workflow advice from the best Grease Pencil tutorial guy in the field.

[@brandonjacksoon]

Awesome! This is the course that I want to buy - animation from Paul Caggegi! Thanks CG Cookie, he is looks like a true professional teacher =)

[@GeorgeGX9113]

I remember watching this video and it helped a lot but one thing I can't seem to find anywhere is how people draw their pieces to scale seemingly with no anchors. I get how line work solidifies the sketch but during the sketching process all you have is the canvas, 3D shapes and the grid to guide you. Being able to integrate 3D should help but it presents its own set of hurdles. I have a rigify armature as reference and when I add a cube to make a building, all I got was a room instead.

[@fylip22b]

Bonjour et merci pour ce cours express ! À bientôt. Philippe P.

[@KenanProffitt]

Just now seeing this. Super cool! :)

[@zephaniahdejene1746]

Grease pencil is a true underdog in the 2d animation scene.

[@felfurion8624]

Exciting - I can't wait to try your process!

[@Just3DThings]

Lets Go Paul!!

[@kanpuriyaclasses]

Amazing explanation sir🥰

[@tomkirbygreen]

Fantastic! I’d like to see a good deal more 2 and 2.5D training content for Blender.

[@cg_cookie]

It's coming to CG Cookie!

[@moose304]

Very cool! I wish I understood how to use even the basics of Grease Pencil tool, seems super useful.

[@cg_cookie]

Paul is creating some great tutorials on Grease Pencil for us! See what's coming next here: cgcookie.com/posts/what-s-in-the-oven-april-2022

[@rockon8174]

Spitfire Storyboards channel goes in depth on his channel.

[@danfabish]

Great video, really helpful! Quick tip on the grease pencil modifiers. You can just apply to the first grease pencil object, then select all the other objects, select the first object again and select "copy to selected" from the drop down next to the little camera icon on the blur modifier

[@JBetbe]

Good Job Paul! I didn't see it yet and it's a masterclass as always.

[@INVICTUSSOLIS]

I seriously want to learn Blender Grease Pencil. This stuff has so much potential

[@Stephen-T-Clark]

I finally know how to pronounce your last name! Unlimited power!!!

[@cg_cookie]

You’ve unlocked the next level!

[@philippwohner-drawingandan5705]

super cool tips on using depth of field on grease pencil objects and siwtching camera with markes! learned something new 🙂 Thank you!

[@princedas315]

soooooo helpful as always.

[@mastart4971]

CGCookie is really putting the pedal down... It is hard to keep up with them. There versatility has become huge over the last months... I guess we all know what they have been up to during lockdowns . . . baking cookies... :-)

[@cg_cookie]

The Cookie oven never rests!

[@Bcjc3]

Seems more like a full 2d animation rather than a story board! Looking forward to trying it out!

[@PCaggegi]

The line between storyboard and animatic is so blurry now! Having those capabilities there is very handy, tho.

[@PCaggegi]

@@gernotkinzel8146 client-side, when they ask for a storyboard, adding limited animation is sometimes part of the deal. A straight sequence of stills is not really presentable, so we jump directly to boarding for the purposes of making an animatic.

[@WaterShowsProd]

I've still yet to go into Grease Pencil, so this was also a good explanation of how it's organised.

[@morefilmOfficial]

that was perfect. Please increase the storyboard tutorials in Blender and teach more techniques. Thankful

[@cgblenderespanol7181]

Excellent, amazing tutorials and information. 👍👍😊😊

[@arib8782]

Thanks for this video and all the great videos you do. I have a question: I can definitely see the usefulness of this, and the usefulness of the story pencil add-on. Unless I’m wrong because I just don’t know enough yet (which is definitely possible), story pencil seems to be more for Blender’s 2D animator mode and not really much to do with the 3D views or for use of grease pencil in conjunction with 3D meshes and environments? I hope I’m wrong because I can totally see the benefits of both approaches, so I’m wondering if the capability exists within Blender to combine them. Does it, and if so, do you know of any tutorials about that?

[@DangitDigital]

More Paul please.

[@markusjahn1398]

Super .. there is this tutorial in full length and step by step?

[@njnjhjh8918]

I've seen storyboards on yt before, seems like a lot more work was put into whatever this is

[@freetime_np3284]

Awesomeeeeee❤

[@AirForceJuan2]

I am very much looking forward to taking the upcoming course mentioned in the video. I checked CG Cookie just now and it seems it is still in production as the Animation\2d filter presently does not return any courses. Actually hoping extensive and comprehensive Grease Pencil courses appear as soon as possible as it looks like such a rich creative solution compared to the animation applications I have used up to now. On a side note it’s just such a shame one of them (clip studio) is leaving so much potential on the table by not providing more robust animation features. I’d be ecstatic to just create my assets in Clip Studio and Creative Suite and just cart them over to Grease Paint to take advantage of its amazing features. Any idea his soon the Grease Pencil Courses will be available?

[@tonnguyentruong5337]

great

[@kizitoisaacnewton5886]

can you please update the tutorial for the cup shatter with fluids in it plzzzzzzzz

[@-semyonlaskin]

Cool tutor. And what is music in this?)

[@aniisammy]

i've been following this to the letter but no matter what I do, the gradient for the sky keeps coming out as a solid colour instead of a gradient :(

[@Abhaypratap000]

Hey, i wanna ask that is [11400h + 3060(95w)] configuration laptop enough for 3d animation

[@dgartstarashhomedecorillus9579]

sir, i3 12100, 4 core 8 thred can I Larne becic wark Lumion, C4D.

[@StephGV2]

You wouldn't happen to have a tutorial on how to transition from Storyboard Pro to Blender, would you? I'm trying to introduce a long time (and STILL full time) Hollywood pro to Blender, I'm 3D and fairly proficient and 2D is just out of my wheelhouse.

[@PCaggegi]

Did y'all stick around to the end? There's a pretty funny nod to Monsters Inc.

[@temwangwira3717]

how do you get the likeness

[@ango_alex_art]

I need to do a storyboard and maybe crease pencil is the option. can you add bones?

[@PCaggegi]

You can.

[@sruthikr5764]

👍🏻

[@hasanhuseyindincer5334]

👍👏