Switching to Blender for My 2D Animations

[@LuckisMe]

I'm hard at work on the next Luck is Me, which is about HORSES! But I thought it would be fun to make this video. The next luck is me will be out in a couple weeks!

[@withlessAsbestos]

Watching an .75x speed band it sounds pretty much normal.

[@trashbug4843]

woooo!

[@Big_Goob]

God I hate horses

[@HandleDisliker]

"They are dangerous on both ends, and crafty in the middle." ~ Sherlock Holmes (and my brother until he dated and married my sister-in-law (a "horse masseuse"))

[@marcberm]

Hey! I know this isn't your usual kind of video, but it's pretty neat! It's always interesting to see how other's think and reason through their setup/process. Thank you!

[@CopperStarToons]

Haha dude this is crazy, I actually went from using Blender, to then recently switching over to using Krita for my animations!! Great video btw. Blender has some super neat tools! I think I prefer Krita for the more basic, 2-d layout, as I prefer the more classic animation style, but Blender was pretty sweet too! Keep it up man, I love your work! Can't wait for a new vid. :)

[@TechDiveAVCLUB]

3 complements you deserve. As a tutorial guy, you nailed the overview! 2. You're so funny that I forget to me mention you're animations are very good! 3. This video would have had me checking out your channel if it was the first one I saw.

[@HandleDisliker]

I recall that I wanted to "upgrade" from FlippaClip a year ago and I didn't want Adobe because my house doesn't have internet, so even the "benefits" of a monthly subscription (i.e. " keeping the product up to date and hacker resistant") don't apply to my situation. And so, I ran into Blender (mind you, my problem isn't about price! It is a problem of subscription vs. product. I want to buy something and be able to get right back to where I started after a period of time). Honestly I never found that good blender 2D tutorial (until now), and I slowly transitioned into 3D modeling, but... honestly, everything said here made sense! This is the 2D Blender tutorial I was looking for, so thank you sir for making this video!

[@parichartchantapong1408]

I can't believe literally no one is talking about how satisfying Nice tutorials voice softs.

[@RyanKingArt]

Cool! You use grease pencil! 👍‍I make tutorials on how to use Blender. I found your channel from CopperStarToon's most recent video. He's my brother in real life actually. 😄

[@dev2d161]

Would love if u could make a grease pencil animation series tho

[@EdLrandom]

It's crazy to see 2d artists switching to blender, grease pencil use to be an annotation tool.

[@casandras7391]

this was so helpful for me!! I’ve been wanting to create digital characters/clothing for avatars on an online platform. I heard some creators use this to make their designs but this +photoshop is intimidating and so hard to understand. but this really encouraged me to keep trying so i can finally open my shop! thank you 🥺 *big hug*

[@axlchavez1603]

3:40 words of wisdom

[@Dantti]

Awesome man! Grease Pencil is so good after the learning curve 🥰

[@BlueLeef]

AGH I found you again! I hadn't used my old account for so long so when I saw your name pop up again I was ecstatic! You're actually the reason I started using Krita originally, awesome to see you adapting to even more programs. Blenders been a hurdle for me even though it has so many useful tools, this helps make it seem a lot more manageable though, at least starting out.

[@douglasboyle6544]

A very neat behind the scenes and some good info too. Thanks for sharing it.

[@MatchaMakes]

That was a really helpful and well paced tutorial. I’ve been looking for something like this to help me with 2d animations in blender and this nailed it. Thanks so much for making this!

[@Descalibrado_]

Yo this video was very informative, I had never seeen those tips from the beginning thank you so much!

[@Monkaehbutgameromg]

the ending of this video made me cry 😢

[@Monkaehbutgameromg]

never gonna give u up

[@Zandezz.]

Cool. I'm sure at one point, every artist would be using blender based on the amount of them switching over

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

2:10 The technical term for those dust clouds is “briffits”, according to Mort “Beetle Bailey” Walker.

[@alexandreuroz5968]

A fast, but well explained tutorial ❤❤❤❤

[@TheCommonGentry]

not sponsored, not affiliated ... a great show and tell :3 ... missing you Luck. hope your game nights are less scarey ;'D

[@ingenting2510]

Have I missed game nights? I got locked out of my discord so I haven’t been able to check up on what’s been going on

[@TheCommonGentry]

@@ingenting2510 luckislive, aye. havent been one in months.

[@ingenting2510]

Do you still have the discord link, I’d like to join again

[@TheCommonGentry]

@@ingenting2510 here ye go! discord.gg/u9QBfrhk

[@Mr.POLiS_Cartoons]

Even though I've been working with GP for sometime now, I found your advise quite helpful... THANKS

[@Muted_Marcus]

This is so interesting! My only experience with Blender so far is making the donut, and I can't believe it has a built in modifier for rim lights.

[@unaninated]

Thanks for this behnd the scene of your work. I'm also trying to use blender for 2d animation and you're right it is a steep learning curve

[@withlessAsbestos]

Luck is Live Fam where you at?

[@ingenting2510]

I just looked back, it’s been over a year. I miss those nights

[@wa-xi9dy]

Bruh I was literally watching blender tutorials before I saw the notif. Weird

[@taytotsorbeta9358]

Your birthdays are special because you are special. Have fun in your own way on this one.

[@Sweetoooths]

please make more videos on grease pencil for easy wworkflow like settings

[@xexat]

Dang didn't know you could use blender for 2D stuff that's really cool

[@Sweetoooths]

brother litrally i found this video today and trust me its very very usefull bruh thnax a lot man plz keep making such videos about grease pencil short and useful thanx again man.......subscribed you

[@GinoZump]

You've got Yourself a new sub! Very inspiring!

[@AlexBlack-xz8hp]

Freaking great video man! Love it!! More please. :D

[@HarryMcKenzieTV]

The Rim effect is not working. I even added simple circle with small stroke and fill.

[@trashbug4843]

rlly appreciate seeing the bts!

[@LuckisMe]

I'm actually going to start another channel in a few days which will be devlogs of upcoming luck is me videos! That will be truly behind the scenes stuff! I'll post about it on my Twitter and KZbin messages when I start it!

[@TheCommonGentry]

@@LuckisMe will discord get early access?

[@LuckisMe]

@@TheCommonGentry YES!

[@trashbug4843]

oooOooO Awesomeeee! 🎉

[@TheCommonGentry]

@@LuckisMe YAY!!!

[@axlchavez1603]

WAIIT WHHAAAAATTTT, YOU CAN USE SCULPT MODE WITH GREASE PENCIL???

[@hoseinbebany]

Well done

[@jectronawn7512]

might keep this in mind if I ever want to branch out to 3D backrounds or 3D like videos

[@Makingblah71]

0:29 earned you the like WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@EdLrandom]

What do you mean draw perspective? You have 3d tools and grids to do real perspective with real camera settings and such, to draw perspective just arrange things in 3d space, you can also blockout things with 3d cubes and then draw on their surfaces.

[@DudV2]

arrange me a drawing of a building in a way that its walls follow perspective lines

[@DimiArt]

@@DudV2 you can do it easily, theres even addons for perspectives. Doing it in 3D will make it so much more accurate than free handing it and using those lines as guides i promise you that.

[@micmacha]

Given that Blender is a 3D program, my first thought for perspective would be to use an actual mesh. Then I could either delete the mesh or hide it from the final render when I'm done.

[@LuckisMe]

I do do that sometimes, but I've gotten so used to drawing in 2d with perspective lines, so it's nice being able to create them using the radial tool.

[@adhritgulati6794]

Am used to 3 d animation, and I am starting 2 d animation now. I've managed to make something that looks like something, but how do I improve it

[@i.nakanon]

I would use a cube to draw perspective Like just insert the camera inside cube

[@TheSamucacs]

I think perspective is better drawn by using the 3d feature. 3d objects with Lineart or just for reference and draw on top

[@MUN-Development]

I love your vid.

[@nwhajlawn6224]

please part 2 of this

[@mrcrobart]

COuld you make a longer tutorial about this ?

[@alaingolitomoukpoghomou2659]

dude tNice tutorials is super good! subbed

[@____________________K]

Thank you

[@animationlife1241]

in the Adobe Animate program, there is the Symbol and Nested Symbol feature, which speeds up work very much, and I did not find anything similar to it in other programs. Is there a similar feature or ability in Grease pencil ?

[@LuckisMe]

Sort of. Within separate objects you can do loop animations, tween the objects around, and do things similar to Adobe animates symbol feature. So in one object I could have characters talking on a beach. And then in a separate object, that I could call background for instance, I could draw a six frame animation of waves swelling. I can set that to loop. And then over that hundreds of frames of the two characters talking, there's a six frame loop of waves swelling in the background. I've been thinking about making another video on blender 2D animation

[@animationlife1241]

@@LuckisMe Please make a lesson explain this feature and how to make the most of this feature, because it will save us a lot of time. For example, create an object and store all the walking and running animations in it, for example, and how can I call it in other projects. In Adobe Animate, the Symbol feature provides capabilities Awesome and very large, and unfortunately no one has explained it before in Grease Pencil

[@HalValla01]

I've always liked the idea of combining 3d and 2d, like build props in 3d then characters in traditional 2d, all within one software. Have you ever tried that? I know some big animation studios use it as a shortcut, but I'm interested in your opinion

[@LuckisMe]

Yep! Super powerful. My episode Camping at Night I do that sort of thing!

[@NatureVibes_animations]

Pls can you made a video on how to create a scene in grease pencil, like the church scene. How you manage to arrange the scene. Please?

[@LuckisMe]

I am going to do another tutorial I think in a couple weeks!

[@NatureVibes_animations]

@@LuckisMe thank you

[@SinisterPixel]

This was interesting. How would you say the workflow compares to your previous animation software? If for example you were to race yourself to make a similar animation in your previous software, what sort of time difference do you think you'd achieve?

[@LuckisMe]

Dat's a good krestion! If I were to make Churchianity in Krita it would've taken about 1.5x longer I think. Adobe Animate would be like 1.1x longer. Krita is raster based so there's no short cuts that you can get away with like with a vector based program. For instance, if I wanted to rotate a drawing or stretch it out, in Krita it would have to stretch each individual pixel of the drawing, which makes it blurrier. Where as in Adobe Animate and Blender it's able to maintain quality no matter how much you stretch, skew, or rotate a drawing.

[@SinisterPixel]

@@LuckisMe so it's basically a slightly better and free version of Adobe Animate that's not made by Adobe? Seems like a win win

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

If you need more vector drawing tools, you could also use Inkscape. Because its native format is SVG, that’s easy to bring into Blender, and you can also export objects from Blender in that format.

[@perihantabur2207]

He's clicking everywhere and he knows what every button does. clicking by mistake " where did it go?!?!" Start pressing random keys

[@julhizantwo2277]

Blender such a banger for free program. But, it doesnt have (native) mirror shortcut which i use too often in pencil2d

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

I don’t know what you mean. You can add a Mirror modifier to a Grease Pencil object, and that will automatically track all changes you make.

[@jaisejigi1829]

How do you seperate the objects im confused . Switched to3d location in stroke depth order that still one object

[@DimiArt]

3:20 a better way to do perspective is just create your background with basic 3d Objects and use the perspective camera.

[@LuckisMe]

I actually tried doing that while working on my most recent animation because if your comment. Good idea! It's still a good skill to have, being able to draw perspective in 2d. But slapping in some basic 3D objects is a quick surefire way to get the perspective just right!

[@DimiArt]

@@LuckisMe I'm so glad you tried it! it's still a good skill to have for a traditional artist, but i'd say in most cases 3D is a much better option unless you're an art teacher or something like that.

[@kevinabella5991]

Sooo trueeee

[@brunoriyuoficial]

Good

[@explodingwolfgaming8024]

Commenting 4 algorithm

[@luudat8x]

Stick with it it gets easy over ti

[@RanDAss]

I am still on frame one cause YOU DID NOT SHOW HOW TO MAKE ANOTHER FRAME YOU JUST SPED PAST IT!!

[@LuckisMe]

NNEEER

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Realistically, people are still going to take Adobe more seriously, because it can afford to spend millions telling people how wonderful it is, while Blender can’t.

[@normank1144]

【ｐｒｏｍｏｓｍ】 😝

[@joyastudio3381]

Lol sa

[@Loki-zd3bu8nk9w]

Its hard to fallow, go little slow

[@waveanimater]

Hindi video

[@SlayerSla]

wow i always wanted to know how people aniamte this cringe characters, blender is such an absolutely amazing program for every solution, but i think its very hard to learn

[@quimera963]

Thank you