Working towards a tool for animation production as well as animatics Presets mimic the look of pen, marker, ink and crayon. The drawing brushes also get a wider set of properties, including pressure sensitivity when using a graphics tablet, and stroke randomisation settings. Instead, layers now get opacity settings and stroke thickness and tint modifiers and can be parented to any object or bone in a bone-based animation rig.Ĭolours can now be grouped in palettes, making it possible to swap palettes in a scene with a few clicks and get their own opacity and fill opacity settings. The release, which is a Windows-only beta, is a custom build of Blender 2.77 with the new toolset installed.Ī complete open-source toolset for 2D animation?Īlthough other 3D applications – notably Maya – have grease pencil tools for annotating or planning animation frames, Blender’s implementation made waves when it was released in Blender 2.73 last year.Īs Martinez Lara himself was quick to spot, it can act as a complete open-source toolset for 2D animation, producing what looks like conventional cel or Flash animation in a 3D environment.Īnd although Krita 3.0 has since added its own animation tools, while formerly commercial 2D animation software Toonz has also been open-sourced, it remains a strong option.īetter handling of layers and colours, more sophisticated brush settingsĬhanges in Grease Pencil V2 include the decoupling of stroke width and colour from layers, meaning it is no longer necessary to create a separate layer for every colour used in a character or background. Blender developers Antonio Vazquez and Joshua Leung, along with animator Daniel Martinez Lara, have released Grease Pencil V2, a revamped version of Blender’s 2D animation toolset.
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