Blender 2D Animation: The Complete Guide to the Grease Pencil

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
Preamble
Download & Install Blender
Starting the Blender Program
1 The Graphical User Interface
	1.1 The Graphical User Interface (GUI)
	1.2 Editors
	1.3 The 3D Animation Workspace
	1.4 Drawing with the Grease Pencil
	1.5 The Grease Pencil
	1.6 Hiding Annotations
	1.7 The Transition to 2D Drawing
	1.8 Changing to the 2D Animation Workspace
	1.9 The 2D Animation Workspace
	1.10 The 2D Viewport Editor
	1.11 Editor Controls – Buttons, Icons and Sliders
2 Drawing Strokes
	2.1 Drawing a Stroke
	2.2 Drawing a Stroke (continued)
	2.3 Erasing Strokes
	2.4 Stroke Lines and Fill
	2.5 Stroke Colors - Material Color Mode
	2.6 Stroke Colors - Vertex Color Mode
	2.7 Mixing Colors
	2.8 Texture Strokes
	2.9 Stroke Color Workspace
	2.10 Tinting Strokes
	2.11 New Stroke Types
3 Strokes Tools
	3.1 The Tool Panel
	3.2 The Fill Tool
	3.3 The Cutter Tool
	3.4 The Eyedropper Tool
	3.5 The Line Tool
	3.6 The Polyline Tool
	3.7 The Arc Tool
	3.8 The Curve Tool
	3.9 The Box Tool
	3.10 The Circle Tool
4 Strokes Brushes
	4.1 Brush Type
	4.2 Brush Types
	4.3 Adding New Brush Types
	4.4 Customising a Brush Type
	4.5 Downloading and Appending Brushes
5 Using a Drawing Tablet
	5.1 Emulating a Three Button Mouse
	5.2 Blender Preferences Editor
	5.3 2D Viewport Editor Controls
	5.4 Tablet Properties
	5.4 Wacom Intous 3D Table Properties
6 The Canvas Explained
	6.1 The Canvas
	6.2 The Canvas – Another way
	6.3 Renaming and Adding Layers
	6.4 Adding Preconstructed Strokes
	6.5 Appending Stroke Types
	6.6 Using Appended Stroke Types
	6.7 Browse Material to be Linked
	6.8 Adding 3D Objects
	6.9 Adding a Canvas
	6.10 The Canvas Grid
7 Stroke Placement
	7.1 Placing Strokes
	7.2 2D Viewport Header Stroke Placement Controls
	7.3 Object Origin
	7.4 Origin: Stroke Placement
	7.5 3D Cursor: Stroke Placement
	7.6 Surface: Stroke Placement
	7.7 Stroke: Stroke Placement
	7.8 Aligning and Locking Strokes
	7.9 Drawing Guides
8 Background Image Tracing
	8.1 Tracing
	8.2 Drag and Drop Method
	8.3 Add Image Method
	8.4 The File browser Editor
	8.5 Tracing
9 Smoothing and Editing Strokes
	9.1 Editing Strokes
	9.2 2D Viewport Editor Modes
	9.3 Editing in Object Mode
	9.4 Editing in Edit Mode
	9.5 Proportional Editing
	9.6 Edit Mode Manipulation Tools
	9.7 Edit Mode Editing Tools
	9.8 Editing in Sculpt Mode
	9.9 Editing with Modifiers
10 Stroke Effects
	10.1 Viewport Shading Options
	10.2 Stroke Effects
	10.3 Viewport Display
	10.4 Flip Effect
	10.5 Blur Effect
	10.6 Pixelate
	10.7 Shadow
	10.8 Wave Distortion
	10.9 Multiple Effects
11 Animating Strokes
	11.1 Dope Sheet and Timeline Editors
	11.2 Timeline Animation Play Buttons
	11.3 Animation Action
	11.4 Animation Time
	11.5 Number of Frames
	11.6 Set up the Scene
	11.7 Interpolation
	11.8 Onion Skinning
	11.9 Timeline Manipulation
	11.10 Perpetual Motion
	11.11 Remember the Outliner Editor
	11.12 The Walk Cycle and Animation
	11.13 Keyframes and Posing
12 Animating a Character
	12.1 The Storyboard
	12.2 Organising the Outliner Editor
	12.3 Animating a Character
	12.4 Movement in the Scene
	12.5 Walk Cycle Reference Image
	12.6 Create a Dedicated Sketch Material
	12.7 Sketching a Pose
	12.8 Playing the Animation
	12.9 Scaling and Positioning Keyframes in the Timeline
	12.10 The Time Offset Modifier
	12.11 Animating the Scene Background
	12.12 Background Image
	12.13 In Perspective
13 Armatures in Animation
	13.1 The Armature
	13.2 Multiple Bones
	13.3 Armature Display
	13.4 Armature Posing
	13.5 Parenting with Automatic Weights
	13.6 Understanding Parenting
	13.7 Cancel Parenting
	13.8 Parenting with Envelope Weights
	13.9 Vertex Groups
	13.10 Animation Keyframes
14 Wrap up and Render
	14.1 Eevee Render in the Properties Editor
	14.2 Render Preview
	14.3 Rendering an Image
	14.4 Rendering a Video Clip
	14.5 Video Codecs
15 Navigate and Save
	15.1 Files and Folders
	15.2 Creating a Folder
	15.3 Saving a File
	15.4 Windows File Explorer
	15.5 Windows File Explorer Diagram
	15.6 Blender File Browser
	15.7 Opening Files
	15.8 File Browser Header Features
	15.9 Make a New Folder in Blender
	15.10 Display Options
	15.11 Saving Your Work
	15.12 The Concept of Files
	15.13 The Append or Link Command
	15.14 Importing Objects
16 Creating New Scenes
	16.1 The Storyboard
	16.2 Extend the Sequence
	16.3 Adding a Scene
	16.4 Create Video Clips
17 Movie Making
	17.1 Video Editing Workspace
	17.2 Placing Files in the VSE
	17.3 Audio Files – Sound
	17.4 Precision File Placement
	17.5 Viewing the Video File
	17.6 Video File Properties / Modifiers
	17.7 Erasing (Deleting) a File from the VSE
	17.8 The Add Button
	17.9 Cutting Video Strips
	17.10 Rendering the Movie
	17.11 Summary
18 Grease Pencil Modeling
	18.1 Modeling using the Grease Pencil
	18.2 Modeling a Stroke
	18.3 Shaping Strokes
	18.4 Combining and Converting Strokes
	18.5 Modeling From Strokes
	18.6 Modeling Workspace
	18.7 Modeling a Dragon
19 Using Add-Ons
	19.1 Add-ons From the Internet
	19.2 Download the Add-on
	19.3 Installing the Python File
	19.4 Add-on – Another Way
20 Internet Resources
Index