Your First 2D Animation In Blender 2.8

[@amiteay]

that moment you FINALLY find a useful tutorial.... this was scrumptious, thank you very muchs

[@skudopludo]

For me it says all layers are locked when I try to draw plz help 😢

[@LemmingAttack]

I completely agree, bang up job, was glad to wade through shit to find this gem.

[@Orphanlast]

:)

[@hdphonector8434]

@@skudopludo just click on the lock n it will unlock

[@FrankMakesMovies]

For those without a numpad, go into preferences, tick emulate numpad, and use numbers along the top of keyboard.

[@Orphanlast]

Oooh! I'll try to discuss that in my next video about Blender

[@Evitrea]

@@Orphanlast Or just press ` on the top left (right below Esc), you will get a view menu

[@Orphanlast]

Please stick around. I need people who are really familiar with Blender to give tips along the way. The 51 Animation Challenges are just that, challenges for me to complete while learning Blender. Once I have something down pat, I'll make a proper tutorial about it.

[@Evitrea]

I'm not REALLY familiar, but here's another tip: Shift + ` can make you fly in the scene like FPS, do it when viewing with camera can let you place the camera with ease.

[@Kimoto504]

Edit>Preferences>Input>(under "Keyboard" at the top, check "Nmulate Numpad")

[@TonyInTownNZ]

At last! A real beginners tutorial for actual inexperienced, know nothing beginners. How rare is that among 'beginners' tutorials. I actually understood this and was able to follow along. I have watched over 80 hours of tutorials on various subjects in blender. This is the first time I have achieved something. I made a bouncing ball. Thank You.

[@asianman3649]

came back from 2 years, i made many animations all started FROM THIS VIDEO :)

[@maq3009]

Dude!!! First of all, Thank You for this video. Second, I feel that you think you were going slow, but you were going at the speed of sound explaining everything. Take a deep breath, or two, between the steps since this is a beginner's tutorial, and explain everything as if you were talking to a 5 year old. You are super talented, but not all of us are at your level just yet. But again thank you. I had to watch this like 10 times, but I finally got it! I know I'm super dumb, and that this is a video that took a lot of your time so I'm thankful that you did it.

[@Orphanlast]

No problem

[@robindex360]

Or may be you have a 0.5x speed specially for you on KZbin

[@dochoex]

If you are reading this. I am blessed to have seen this tutorial. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Please continue to teach

[@Orphanlast]

:) Great to hear! Stick around, I teach how to draw all kinds of backgrounds.

[@_Wes__]

The interpolation explanation at 11:00 was excellent! The interpolation section on the official Blender documentation excludes some crucial details, great tutorial, thanks for making it.

[@Orphanlast]

:D No problem.

[@manavshah6831]

I had a hard time on it, whenever I interpolate it seems like its only one point is interplating

[@albertdadzie4567]

Can we just give a round of applause to the Blender team for writing such a good software and making it open and free. As a software developer, I really appreciate the effort. Disclaimer: I am now learning 2D and 3D animation, just for side gigs.

[@Orphanlast]

Damn right

[@albertdadzie4567]

@@Orphanlast Thank you also for a cool tutorial. Honestly the road to producing a 3 minutes skit I can put out on youtube is almost a year away.

[@Orphanlast]

@@albertdadzie4567 right on. You can now turn 3D models into a type of grease pencil effect now too.

[@jvsonyt]

I know how to animate a ball bouncing in general, but you showed me the tips and tricks on how to do it quickly in blender which I'm incredibly grateful for. Thank you for this video.

[@Orphanlast]

Thanks man.

[@bcukdannage]

My first attempt at this yesterday was a bit rubbish, but it wouldn't have been anything without this video, thanks. :)

[@Orphanlast]

Right on.

[@Orphanlast]

Right on.

[@bcukdannage]

@@Orphanlast I can't see a video in your playlists for 'rigging' which I understand is the third level of 2D animation. Did you do any videos on that yet? :)

[@samuelh5]

Haha you got the choppy stretching too? Still a good start!

[@archfiendkaguya6213]

everything is trial and error my friend (: im also barely starting just like you and had to restart like 3 times from scratch but it felt good as hell finally getting it

[@NathanDoran2099]

I use blender a lot for 3D but this was super critical for me when trying to learn the 2D side of it. Thanks a lot

[@Orphanlast]

Right on! Good to hear!

[@toddspeck9415]

First time I tried this animation. Thanks for explaining this.

[@amazonnarita363]

best tutorial and a leader of blender tutorial that i have ever had. smart. i almost surrender on blender. but finally, this guy draw me back. will be able to enjoy blender now

[@vinianimator1701]

ok. so u can animate now?

[@shaileshkris]

Thanks to you, Im started with blender!

[@sambowen]

I've never heard of open toons, so I vote for Blender. :) Found your channel by following KZbin suggestions after watching/searching for other blender 2.80 2d animation videos.

[@Orphanlast]

Well, 2D is what I know, so I'll be working on with that aspect of Blender for a good long while. There have been a TON of shitty videos with Blender's Grease Pencil that you can't even use because Grease Pencil was just way too far into alpha and beta stages. Then there's others where you watch the video and you're just like... OHHH this guy understands the feature but can't draw... uh... ok. So, yeah, I think you'll like it here. Just keep in mind that you CAN use the 51 animation challenges in order to learn more. I'm learning the coolest things right now (which might comprise this week's and next week's video... I release on fridays so the end of my youtube week is Fridays). Just keep in mind the 51 animation challenges are me learning more about Animation as well as learning more about Blender. After that, I intend to release official tutorials when I feel I have everything nailed down. Those official tutorials will not only discuss how to animate in Blender, but will also discuss the sorts of things discussed in the "Animator's Survival Kit" (book). So the tutorial series (way down the road) will be a full animation resource.

[@xsedohrx]

To be fair this is the first tutorial i have seen from you, I really enjoyed it and although i don't know your open tunes tutorials i would definitely follow your blender tutorials.

[@Orphanlast]

Sorry for the late reply. I like Opentoonz, but I DO feel Blender is the superior program post 2.8. I kinda feel like Grease Pencil is just in an infantile state, but it's quite powerful just the way it is, nonetheless.

[@woosheroes494]

Best so far, a tutorial for beginners without assumptions. Thank you for being a great orator and purveyor of knowledge. Excellent! ❤️🔥

[@variableeddie8000]

Just found your channel today. I've discovered that in order to learn blender I'm going to have to learn each 'object' separately before I can transition between them to experiment. You just messing around in grease pencil has already convinced me that this is where I want to learn new things in this object.

[@Orphanlast]

Cool. Now, keep in mind, I'm dabbling with Blender and sharing what I know for the types of projects that I have. So, the mesh... the topology of an object, if my end goal is to have a 3D image, that I've made, in order to make a drawing, it doesn't matter if the mesh is flawed. I'm thinking of using what I know and WILL KNOW in order to help me make a comic book. I feel I have already proven that I don't necessarily need Blender for that, but it's still nice to have. I am thinking of renaming the blender 51 challenges playlist to something like Orphanlast's Blender videos. As time develops, I'll be getting into more advanced stuff with Blender.

[@variableeddie8000]

Seeing you create a unique journey will have more value inspiring me than any step by step tutorial ever could. So long as you establish(as you have in this video) where the baseline meets the launching point for your creativity I think you will continue to instruct new users and old-hats alike.

[@sarahlukhadia8156]

You are so good .... all the basics are crystal clear!And finally with all those tutorials .... urs was the guide to my very first animation.Thankya 😄😄

[@neerajsinghsaral3415]

Now thats called a real tutorial video .... thnk u

[@jamesmalarkey388]

Great video bro, can't wait to see your 3d animations 😉

[@Orphanlast]

Thanks

[@ZZZXIIIXZZZ]

this vid is pretty good i quit blender when it got update and started using other stuff but when i saw this i installed blender back on my PC

[@Gribbics]

I just draw and wanted to get into animations and krita has been nothing but buggy so got blender and was very terrified but this video was absolute perfection. Best video i found on blender. Thank you so much man

[@weathere4055]

FINALLY one useful tutorial.. tysm

[@nandoscrafthobby843]

Perfect tutorial! I'm starting with Blender and how easy you explain the tools is perfect. Congratulations!

[@Orphanlast]

Thanks. However, shape tweening might not be the best thing to use for EVERYTHING in a complex animation. My next video is going to show my attempts at that.

[@pushstarttoplay1142]

Just tried it for the 1st time worked great. Tutorial was easy to follow n easy to understand 👍

[@StarvEgoFeedSoul]

Can you do an animation in blender start to finish to explain short all the tools of blender, onion skins, etc ? You really gave life to the ball animation you did here, it's great 👏👏👏

[@Orphanlast]

Well, I plan on sharing quite a bit more. But only so much can fit in one video.

[@sebb6861]

Thank You I've Been Trying To Find The Right Video And I Finally Found It! I Subscribed 😊

[@Orphanlast]

Great to hear.

[@FrenchwithBasu]

I'm definitely a subscriber now!!! This video got me really interested in animation which is most people's dream! I loved the video! Please keep making such easy beginner's videos for us!!! ❤

[@Orphanlast]

I plan on doing that. However. Don't plan on every animation being a shape tween exercise. You either need to work with cutout rigs or work with frame by frame animation most of the time. But starting out with knowing how to tween might help you out with some rough sketchy parts of the animation

[@FrenchwithBasu]

@@Orphanlast Thanks so much!

[@elyanalanglais8035]

Thx for this tutorial! It was the first time I realy try blender! Before that, I just try to not loose myself in all the options. Realy helpful!

[@Orphanlast]

Good to hear.

[@nothingnothing3211]

if you wanna learn 3d then cross mind is best for beginners introduction to the basics of everything. right now it's the best on youtube.

[@RoryOConnor]

Nice One ! The creative community is buzzing at the mo ! Grease pencil has so much potential Blender 2.82 is so much more intuitive! Just had a bit of time to spare and started to get into it! The performance maybe questionable for average users but the render engines/proxy tools might play a major role in complex shorts/features!

[@Orphanlast]

Yeah dude it's stinking awesome. I just wish some Cacani features could migrate over. EVENTUALLY I plan on getting back into the 2D aspect of things. But right now, I'm aiming for a grasp of the Blender interface and all that it can do. Right now, I've been using it as a sketch that I can fly the camera through and snap pictures from any angle so that if I'm making a comic book, I can easily just pose characters as needed for each frame on the timeline for each pannel on. Then take all the pictures I need, then plop them onto my page and I don't plan on tracing. No point in doing that. In 2D I plan on romanticizing the image.

[@RoryOConnor]

@@Orphanlast Yep really cool man, so many good things/tech popping now , even adobe waking up a bit with substance etc.. saw a interest storyboard collaboration tool in the blender conf videos.. a studio level organizer with storyboarding would be sweet! Recently checked out storyboards for futurama and simpsons, very clean with precise instruction/camera/action etc.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYfSpmunjpySbrs an animatic from the game ? kzbin.info/www/bejne/poWumH-Ba6l1bpI which makes me think a 3D model was defo a guide for the series, a handy crutch to focus on the jokes/storytelling/ higher frame rate character animations/transitions. The comic book idea is a great idea and a natural progression to expand to animation/film/game design etc.. need to make giant playlists for all the tons of short animations/inspiration lol - netflix , love,death, robots? series is cool - reminds me of the animatrix style! random finds recently kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5W8m3yHrdVpmNE kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZvapHmDp7J_l80

[@mohlaroykurbonova7536]

thank u a lot! for beginners like us it is a great(and easy) tutorial comparing to others difficult ones.

[@snowflakeinouterspace3937]

Thank you so much! This was so helpful. I haven't found any tutorial explaing it so easy and detailed before :)

[@weeliano]

Great job! Looking forward to more 2D animation tutorials from you!

[@Orphanlast]

Thanks!

[@TheNekoPuff]

I got this program today and this video was very helpful for just kinda learning what some of the features do :3 Thank you so much

[@Orphanlast]

No problem. Yeah, Krita is awesome. I don't talk about it much, but in my early videos, I used it all the time. I do however teach linear and curvilinear perspective on my channel. So if you decide to stick around, I think you'll find that I'm a good reference for things that aren't just software related and more drawing related.

[@poudel2050]

for beginners. the best video. it's my 1st tutorial .

[@Orphanlast]

Right on!

[@t2699]

Literally helped me a lot 😊

[@Orphanlast]

Great to hear that. Thank you.

[@vazak11]

This was amazing, thanks for sharing, I actually managed to get it to work, aaah first time, woooh!

[@Orphanlast]

Not all animations will be as easy as animating a bouncing ball. But -- hey, it's the first step.

[@sorianojosephanthony5282]

thank you, this video made me my first bouncing ball animation hat i am proud of.

[@Orphanlast]

Good to hear. Now, most of what you'll do in blender, with Grease Pencil WILL be frame by frame. However, there will be moments when you'll be able to interpolate like this.

[@nekomaster1000]

Very good tutorial! I haven't been able to get into 2.8's Grease Pencil for ages because all the (free) tutorials on it are very amateurish, but this was straightforward and clear! I'm looking forward to the 51 challenge videos, so I've subscribed :D I have to know though, will they be presented like tutorials as this video was? Learning stuff like how to efficiently colour and add FX and backgrounds and such would be great!

[@Orphanlast]

They will be somewhat like this, but the primary goal of the 51 Animation Challenges is for me to get better at animation and to document me learning more and more about the program. So yes, I'll cover all that stuff in time. BUT official tutorials will be released when I'm confident I have things down. A stationary bouncing ball is easy. Once you start to move it, the ball moves in arcs. And there's a number of ways to do that, but none of them are ways that I feel happy with. But it's still faster than inbetweening everything yourself. You'll mainly be resculpting inbetweens and repositioning them to fit the arc, the objects path in motion. The problem witt that method is that it's more time consuming if you're moving objects in 3D space. So the other option I've found is with Bezier curves. But the downside with Bezier curve is that if you don't do everything just right, your ball won't align up with your bezier curve. Furthermore, I think you'd have to animate the ball doing its squash and stretch beforehand, because once it's locked into the bezier curve, trying to sculpt it is a nightmare, the sculpting alters unpredictable spots on your ball. So... I'll have to investigate that a bit more. I DO plan on making good illustrations throughout the entire process of the 51 animation challenges. And if you choose to treat it like a tutorial series, you'll be learning as I'm learning. Read the comment sections to the 51 Animation Challenges. Sometimes someone more familiar with Blender 2.8 will speak up. Like this video's comment section. Someone gave me a hint as to how to use Blender without the Numpad. The next video in this series will be coming out today in a little less than 6 hours. If you'd like to check out the full list of 51 challenges it's here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/an29oGyrnK-HjbM But along the way I'll be working on things like FX and such like that just so that I'll occasionally work on something that interests me personally, and that'll cover other topics that you're interested in. :)

[@barryryan5187]

This is a brilliantly concise introduction to animation. I cannot wait for the 51 challenges! thanks man.

[@Orphanlast]

No problem, keep in mind that the 51 animation challenges are not tutorials, as it's more ME learning more about animatiom (I've had 2 years of practice) and learn more about blender, but the goal is to finish an animation in a solitary video. Once I feel I have something nailed down, I'll provide an official tutorial, just like this video. Hope you stick around. I have some cool stuff on my channel, like how to draw panoramic images. My channel kinda specializes on drawing in Perspective. I feel like most people aren't covering perspective very well and so I've decided I'd tackle it and hopefully people will finally get some answers to their questions.

[@dicktolton6056]

Great job overall! Please show the proccess WITHOUT keyboard shortcuts in the future. Thanks for making a great video and sharing your knowledge! Much appreciated.

[@Orphanlast]

Some of these beginner versions of the interface... the clickable ones -- they work differently than with the keyboard shortcuts. They had to remake tools for those icons to be on the screen. I don't think I could do it without keyboard shortcuts. It's fine to start with the clickable tools, but in general, the best workflow is learning the keyboard shortcuts.

[@fredwoodocean9623]

nice tutorial! just getting into 2d animation so this helps a lot. I think the new blender 2D system has a lot of potential and I think this is the program where I want to invest my time in

[@Orphanlast]

Right on. The most recent video that discusses adding arcs after interpolation will help you out quite a bit. Now... YOU CAN make 3D drawings in blender. So, yeah even 3D drawn animations. But that sounds like a nightmare. I suggest researching bilboarding.

[@krayedon]

Thank you for this tutorial! I have been looking for a "blender absolute beginners' 2d animation course" everywhere, and this is by far the best I've found! I have been using blender for less than a year, I think, and it's so cool how many different things you can do with it. Do you think, in the future, you could create a blender 2d animation tutorial series for absolute beginners(like me)?

[@Orphanlast]

I COULD it's not really where I'd want it to be... like... have you ever used Cacani? Blender needs features like Cacani for the Grease Pencil, in my opinion. Like, there's an official Cacani youtube channel where you can see what features it has. Basically, Cacani will make all your inbetweens. That way you can just focus on the keyframes and breakdowns. Blender does the auto inbetweening. But for each and every line, if you want it auto inbetweened this way, you need to have each line on it's own layer. And... that gets messy over time.

[@krayedon]

@@Orphanlast I have not heard of it. What is Cacani?

[@Orphanlast]

@@krayedon basically, you draw your keyframes and breakdowns and you tell the program that there is a relationship from one line in one image to the other. And you're able to set arcs for it's motion path. And when it overlaps with other lines you can give it a masking relationship. Just find the cacani youtube channel. You'll get a good idea of what it can do. BUT my point is, Blender needs that stuff for me to jump into it seriously. My channel used to be about opentoonz. And I spent forever making 3-4 second animations and... there's no way I'm going to be doing inbetweening. No way in hell. It's too much work for 1 second

[@krayedon]

@@Orphanlast Okay, well, either way, I look forward to seeing more content from you!

[@Orphanlast]

@@krayedon right on. I teach how to draw perspective in the Teach Me To Draw playlist. And the Curvilinear Perspective Playlist, teaches how to draw panoramic images.

[@saladinoa6477]

Congrats Blender, you guys managed to make a simple tween animation super COMPLICATED again.

[@Orphanlast]

Not really.

[@StarvEgoFeedSoul]

I was going to animate an angel descending, the wings coming down to a stop as he/she is stepping graciously on the ground, and a second little jump after, I think it will look organic, natural motion, generating the right E-motion.

[@Orphanlast]

Sounds awesome.

[@Orphanlast]

I am also going to be learning more as I go along. The 51 animation challenges is about me learning more and more about Blender and how to use it. Only the Blender version of the 51 animation challenges should be MUCH easier to follow. But once I feel I have enough know how and content, I'll create a new tutorial. The 51 animation challenges aren't always gonna be tutorials. What you're describing with the angel animation sounds awesome. And you can totally achieve all of that in Blender in 1's.

[@StarvEgoFeedSoul]

@@Orphanlast yes, I was thinking the same, good luck, and than you for all your work, also your voice is great, keep it up 👏👏👏

[@ShivanshDev]

finally a tutorial suitable for beginners!

[@Orphanlast]

Glad you enjoyed it. :D

[@cosomopolitan123]

You're so cool, thus helped me a lot, thank you so much for creating this video for us all to learn blender😊

[@parthhole]

finally found a useful tutorial

[@derDeja]

Thank you! Very good tutorial.

[@NoahTewolde24]

8:15 for laptop or mac users you press A then G

[@lisamaria761]

Noah Tewolde A instead of L?

[@PinkeySuavo]

Thanks for the video. Was informative and entertaining at once. Thank you! :)

[@jaggybot9631]

Ah thanks dude, just started and help me out a load. Wooo my bouncing ball lol x

[@chiron13]

I wish all blender for BEGINNERS videos on YT were like this.

[@chikokishi7030]

Fckn huge thank you. Most tutorials are like "i make a line.. i change this i change that... finished" Sadly, in the new 3.0 the entire interpolation part of your video is different. so it was very hard to follow along, and i never did find the curve editor. But i was able to get a bouncing ball eventually

[@30zSamu]

WOW! Awesome! Thank you!

[@danielcameron8285]

Great video and great explanations

[@johannstrohmann]

great! thanx! had to search a lot to find something like that...

[@Orphanlast]

Right on! Glad you found it.

[@xtravivid5203]

Thats just perfect!!!!

[@_terminalunar_]

thanks! this was my first time animating with blender and i'm pretty happy that i learned how to animate a bouncy ball! also in blender 3.0 they altered the interpolation a bit so yeah that got me confused

[@ankutoonz]

Lovly beautifuly explained

[@samdavepollard]

Really nice tutorial, Dude. Many thanks for sharing your knowledge. Thanks also for the reference to 51 Animation Exercises. Not heard of that before. Looks very cool. In the timeline: right arrow moves us forward one frame; left arrow back one frame. If we have keyframes, up arrow moves us to the next keyframe, down arrow to the previous keyframe. Pressing P gives us the 'box selection' cursor which we can use to click and drag on a selection of frames to limit the animation playback to just those frames (saves typing a start and end frame in those little boxes); ALT-P clears that selection so that the entire animation is played when we choose to play it. When we're doing the interpolation, in 2.9 it seems like we don't need to actually select the keyframes? just putting the playhead somewhere between them and selecting 'sequence' seems to do the job? maybe there are situations where that's not going to work. Thanks again.

[@moviesovermatterproductions]

Thank you for posting this!!!

[@kacperbryniarski8009]

Thank you bro=D

[@khaeruljamal8731]

This is cool tutorial video. 👍👍👍

[@Orphanlast]

Yeah -- I'm working on a video where I'm experimenting more with the 2D animation features in Blender. It's a failed attempt, but you can learn from a failed attempt.

[@macgruber4689]

Great tutorial, Grease Pencil needs a lot more of them.

[@Orphanlast]

Oh, and I'm trying. I have a video coming out today showcasing something that I've been experimenting with.

[@MisterCuriusController]

thanks for this tutorial,,, Im trying to learn animation for my contents.

[@shresthpratap4208]

Bro thak you soo much ❤️❤️❤️❤️. Log from India 🇮🇳

[@Orphanlast]

No problem.

[@SmarandaIlie]

awesome tutorial, thank you!

[@Orphanlast]

Keep in mind, interpolation is helpful. But it's not going to be the main way to animate. At the beginning of the video, I used the arrow keys to flip from frome to frame and was doodling with frame by frame animation. The old traditional techniques still apply.

[@grafleberwurst1830]

really good video man helped me out alot!!!

[@Orphanlast]

Great to hear!

[@workflop4117]

Fantastic my friend thank you so much, fantastic tutorial :D

[@Orphanlast]

:D

[@hipposarecutehaha4503]

thank you this video is much help for me

[@Ist_na7ra]

for the first time make a comment in blender tutorial. Thanks for your video, i'm new in blender, and i can follow and understand ur video. U're the great tutor.

[@Orphanlast]

Thanks. I do have other videos on Blender. I'm also kind of a novice at Blender, but the benefit I have when I start tinkering with Blender is I can share what I know, I try to explain everything I'm doing multiple times and I try to include cautionary information that could get people into trouble. But when I don't know how to do something, I wind up getting multiple people leaving comments and telling me multiple ways of doing something. So the follow up video winds up explaining how to fix troubles that I ran into and how to fix them. My channel, right now at least, is mainly focused on illustration and how to draw in perspective. I've been trying to get back into animation, but if I'm going to animate in Blender, I myself need to kinda learn a bit more about Blender as a whole and so that's what I'm mainly focused on. I don't want to manually inbetween my work. And Blender 2.81 has a few more features that I'm looking forward to playing with. Not sure how powerful it's going to be though. Personally, I think the most interesting 2D animation software out there is Cacani -- and if the Blender Foundation could borrow ideas from Cacani then I'd be so excited. But I plan on learning both eventually (My main focus is Blender at this point and I make a point to make at least 1 Blender video each month). I hope you stick around, I think you'd like the content I have to provide. :D

[@Ist_na7ra]

@@Orphanlast hei.. ure very fast in replying my comment. Thanks. But i have problem using blender 2.8 in 2D animation. when i use cirle, rectangle, and others tools in one grey area, blender become hang, i cannot operate the tools. do u have any suggestion for me. thanks for ur reply...

[@Orphanlast]

@@Ist_na7ra try pressing enter/return on your keyboard. It throws me off all the time. :)

[@Orphanlast]

@@Ist_na7ra one of the perks of being a small channel is that I can talk to you guys.

[@Ist_na7ra]

@@Orphanlast ohh.. i thought that my blender there's error. Ok, i will try :)

[@christiancolewan]

Hi Orphanlast, just want to say that this tutorial is very good i learned a lot of basics but your explanation is somewhat rushed. Anyways thanks for this video

[@alwysrite]

nice explanations for begineers

[@Orphanlast]

Oh yeah. :D

[@vinodasari8894]

wow, impressed. very well explained. Blender seems to be better than opentoonz for beginners

[@Orphanlast]

It all depends. My latest video, I try this workflow with everything. And it doesn't work out so well.

[@HAWXLEADER]

No numpad? Just click the camera icon near the view gizmo... It's 2.8! Also ~ yeah...

[@siddharthsk892]

Thank you so much for this

[@Orphanlast]

If you like this video you're going to like my next one. It'll be out at 6 p.m. mountain standard time today.

[@kircore88]

omg why is it 480p in 2019? the tutorial is good though

[@مقاطعمترجمة-ش8ث]

Even I watch most tutorials on 480p but 720p are sharp enough from me , I never watch anything on 1080p or above ,

[@jyoshiki]

@@مقاطعمترجمة-ش8ث up to you

[@visonha3941]

be grateful its there

[@Orphanlast]

Thanks

[@SmokeeWhine]

yes start over with blender.

[@okoyedavid878]

Thank you so much.

[@Orphanlast]

No problem. Somewhat soon here, I'll have more tutorials on 2D animation in Blender

[@XxKazuha]

Thx

[@vjon8873]

Thanks to teach me about interpolation...i am new to blender and intrpolation knowledge will help me to promote next level to me... Thanks again

[@kevinschaoticshuttle4544]

ah. Squash and stretch. the classic method. I'm only one step ahead into my journey.

[@Orphanlast]

Step ahead? In the 51 Challenges?

[@joeabstractjoe]

Great tutorial. Thank you kindly! 🎵👍🎵

[@Orphanlast]

Thanks!

[@enitska]

OMG FINALLY THANK YOU

[@Orphanlast]

Thanks. Sometimes I get some freakin' weird comments on this video.

[@enitska]

@@Orphanlast wtf XD

[@Orphanlast]

@@enitska yeah, the video wasn't recorded in high def. Tons of people are pissed about that. And then my most recent person to comment, before you, had problems but was so super vague and called me a liar. And... that's not the best way to get help when a person is struggling. Hell, I would have helped him if he didn't come out of the gate calling me a liar.

[@enitska]

@@Orphanlast Oh I see ! Do not worry about that. You know, we can't help everyone even if we were God. Some are idiots and some are not aware of how lucky it is to have this tutorial so simple. Personally I didn't mind the quality since the most important thing was the advice given. (and having been used to watching 480p videos for years also helps ahah, some people forget that HD hasn't always been around, well anyway. don't take what some tell you to heart, at worst, put together most asked and done questions in a video, it's cooler than answering each person one by one.) - sorry for my mistakes I'm not an english native - + this video was uploaded 3 years ago, who really cares ? if they really want to learn they will watch and appreciate your video. all ppl are not commenting, some are just liking or saying nothing but they are learning. thank you.

[@bahasainggrisbersamaata1475]

This is cool. Keep on sharing. Looking forward to watching your Blender tutorial video. God bless you, Mate.. (Ata, Jakarta Indonesia)

[@christopherbaxter434]

Thank you.

[@riteshkumarmishra5794]

it's kinda cool.

[@Orphanlast]

Recently I've been working on an animation in blender that's more than just a bouncing ball. Eventually, I think I'll teach what I'm doing in the video. It's kind of a strange worklfow, but I think it's coming together nicely so far.

[@storyguru2712]

Please do more like this videos

[@mr.g3765]

Thank's, you help me very much, merci

[@sweetthang7568]

Great explanations :)

[@Orphanlast]

Thank you! :D

[@jegaveirneynamasiado]

[Solved] I don't know if it's because of the verion I'm using(2.9 I think) but to interpolate, I had to click on "Grease Pencil" to the right of where "Interpolate" was in the tutorial. Then choose "Interpolate sequence" from the menu, and use the little window that appeared on the bottom left.

[@Orphanlast]

This video was made a while ago. Recent updates have changed some of the interface.

[@alan112223]

Interesting! THank you.

[@Orphanlast]

So, I have another video coming out this Friday. It'll help you out in creating arcs

[@alan112223]

@@Orphanlast cheers mate

[@Orphanlast]

Good to hear.

[@rythamsahni1358]

hey! ths video is totally understandable thans for it! please let me know about other parts

[@totallycarbon2106]

I know this is a test animation, and the tutorial is informative, but why the stylistic choice to stretch the ball *before* it contacts the surface? Surely the ball would deform once it hits the surface, hence the squash, but there is no change in the force applied before that moment. If it's to show the acceleration of the ball during descent perhaps you could experiment with larger spacing and less "easing in" before the ball makes contact? I know the bouncing ball is your classic text book example, but it is actually very informative in teaching spacing and timing. Anyway thanks for the rundown on greasepencil!

[@totallycarbon2106]

Premptively answering my own comment with I realise it's a stylistic choice, just one that confused me since it seems to show forces acting on objects when they aren't and making things look rubbery. Although smear frames are quite useful for super rapid movement like head spins. Either way the interpolate tool seems especially useful.

[@Orphanlast]

Well, when Disney's Animation Studio first came into existence, they would animate everything rather exact to how things physically move, and Walt Disney would look over the animation tests and say "Make it look more realistic. The characters are moving robotically". Basically, stretch is usually to imply motion blur and it gives the animation a bit more personality. BUT, also, animation tends to be at 24 frames per second, but most of the time, only every OTHER frame has a new drawing most of the time. So, 12 drawings per second. So, the stretch has been traditionally to create an illusion of more frames than are actually there (to some extent). Out stretching also helps accommodate other rules of animation like "anticipation" and "follow through". In real life, when someone puts their hand in their pocket and pulls something out, they don't wave their hand obnoxiously before puting their hand in their pocket and then pull that something out and wave it about. But in animation, you usually see larger than life behaviours, body language and such because that just generally gives the animation the sense of life, gravity (literally, like there's weight physics), and oddly enough... realism. If an animation moves exactly as it does in real life, it feels lifeless. If you rotoscope (trace live action footage to be an animation) it tends to look like crap. Again, it's because it looks lifeless. So in order to give an animation the suspension of disbelief, you study the live action movements, you record the time it takes for each motion, and then you over exaggerate the motion with anticipation, squash, stretch, and follow through. And it feels alive. Sometimes even with an in adamant object like a ball. You don't want it to look sterile. You want the motion to feel snazzy! There's this film, "The Cobbler and the Thief" (it's a shitty cartoon) now they do use squash and stretch and generally every rule of animation. But to me, it all feels wonky because the guy makin/ the cartoon animated most of it so that each frame had a drawing on it. Each frame 24 seconds per second. The movie cost a fortune, to the point to where the cartoon got taken away from it's creator because they were doing twice the work for each second of animation. Sure, the motions LOOK smooth, but it's unsettling. Live action looks good at 24-60 frames per second, but most of the time, 2D animation looks crappy if everything is animated on ones. So sometimes, in some ways, in order to have a believable animation, you need to divert away from realist. in the case of the bouncing ball, the stretch is to communicate the force and speed of the ball causing it to squish. The stretch is the anticipation of the squish. Try animating it without the stretch. It'll look fine enough, but it just looks better with the stretch.

[@Orphanlast]

@@totallycarbon2106 there's a book you should get "The Animator's Survival Kit." You'll really like it.

[@totallycarbon2106]

@@Orphanlast I have it ;)

[@totallycarbon2106]

@@Orphanlast but, I am still reading it and learning. Thanks for the detailed response.

[@Strelitzia_2]

i know its a bit late for this kind of comment but I think the onion skinning went away when you changed the keyframes to extremes cause the onion skinning is set to filter by keyframes

[@Orphanlast]

I kinda talk about onion skin filters a bit in another video.

[@vickmure]

Wish it was in better video quality..but thanks...am starting to learn blender...

[@yazento5351]

thanks

[@greenleaf1635]

How to draw a circle at a certain position or any other exact position? And after that, how can you align the circle in the next frame to the previous one? Like where is the canvas grid where you can align all the objects to each other? Is there a way to draw guide lines and make your objects snap to it?

[@Orphanlast]

You mean you want to animate a planet? You can just move the camera