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

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Blender 2D and the Book
Preamble
1. Introducing the Grease Pencil
	1.1. Blender and the Grease Pencil
	1.1a. GUI Figure 1.1b
	1.2. Activating the 2D Environment
	1.3. 2D Animation
	1.4. Drawing a Stroke
	1.5. Deleting – Undoing
	1.6. Drawing a Second Stroke
	1.7. Positioning in Object Mode
	1.8. Dope Sheet and Timeline
	1.9. Manipulating Strokes
	1.10. The Dope Sheet Editor
	1.11. Posing the Character
	1.12. Playing the Animation
	1.13. Automatic Keyframing
	1.14. Interpolation
	1.15. Summary
	1.16. To Continue
	1.17. The 3D Viewport Editor
	1.18. Editor Controls - Buttons, Icons and Sliders
	1.19. Editor Controls – Continued
2. Drawing Strokes
	2.1. Drawing a Stroke
	2.2. Drawing on Layers
	2.3. Editing Strokes
	2.4. The Tool Panel
	2.5. Strokes Lines and Fills
	2.6. Draw Mode Tools
	2.7. Brushes and Strokes
3. Editing Strokes
	3.1. Editing Strokes
	3.2. 3D Viewport Modes
	3.3. Selecting Strokes for Editing
	3.4. Editing in Object Mode
	3.5. Editing in Edit Mode
	3.6. Proportional Editing
	3.7. Edit Mode Tools
	3.8. Sculpt Mode Editing
	3.9. Editing with Modifiers
	3.10. Pre-constructed Strokes
4. Coloring and Customizing – Strokes/Brushes
	4.1. Color Schemes
	4.2. The Default Material Color Scheme
	4.3. Adding New Strokes
	4.4. Customizing Strokes
	4.5. The Color Attribute Color Scheme
	4.6. Custom Colors
	4.7. Color Workspace
	4.8. Adding and Customizing Brushes
	4.9. Downloading and Appending Brushes
5. The Canvas Explained
	5.1. The Canvas
	5.2. Strokes in Layers
	5.3. Selecting Layers
	5.4. Renaming Layers, Lines and Fills
	5.5. Drawing Strokes in Layers
	5.6. Adding Layers
	5.7. Layers in the Properties Editor
	5.8. Adding a Canvas
	5.9. Adding a Collection
	5.10. Quick Scene Example
	5.11. Adding Pre-Constructed Strokes
	5.12. Appending Stroke Properties
	5.13. Appending Scene Content
6. Placing Strokes
	6.1. Scene Axis
	6.2. Viewport Grid Floor
	6.3. The Canvas Grid
	6.4. Header Placement Controls
	6.5. The 3D Cursor
	6.6. The Origin
	6.7. Changing the Placement Controls
	6.8. Stroke Placement Options
	6.9. Aligning to a Plane
	6.10. Drawing Guides
7. Stroke Effects
	7.1. Viewport Shading Modes
	7.2. Adding Stroke Effects
	7.3. Adding a Modifier
	7.4. Stroke Thickness Profile
8. Background Image Tracing
	8.1. Tracing
	8.2. Add Image - Selection Method
	8.3. Drag and Drop Method
9. 3D Objects
	9.1. Adding a 3D Object
	9.2. Drawing Strokes on Objects
	9.3. Coloring Strokes
	9.4. 3D from 2D
	9.5. Modeling from a Stroke
	9.6. Combining and Converting Strokes
	9.7. Thickness Profile and Color Attribute
	9.8. Active Tool and Workspace
	9.9. 3D Modeling from Strokes
10. Animating Strokes
	10.1. The Bouncing Ball
	10.2. Dope Sheet and Timeline Editors
	10.3. Animation Basics
	10.4. Animation Action
	10.5. Keyframing and Framing
	10.6. Onion Skinning
	10.7. Animation Time
	10.8. Timeline Manipulation
	10.9. Perpetual Motion
	10.10. The Walk Cycle and Animation
	10.11. Keyframes and Posing
	10.12. Armatures for Posing
11. Animating a Character
	11.1. Basic Concept
	11.2. Walk Cycle Reference Image
	11.3. Tracing Strokes
	11.4. Scaling and Positioning Keyframes
	11.5. The Time Offset Modifier
	11.6. Transposing Strokes
	11.7. Parenting
	11.8. Alternative Procedure
12.	Armatures for Posing
	12.1. The Armature Object
	12.2. Armature Display
	12.3. Using Armatures
	12.4. Parenting
	12.5. Vertex Groups
	12.6. Armature Keyframing Exception
13.	Creating New Scenes
	13.1. Adding a Scene
	13.2. Organization
	13.3. The Storyboard
	13.4. Extending the Sequence
	13.5. Operation Sequence
14.	Wrap Up and Render
	14.1. Render Engines
	14.2. Eevee in the Properties Editor
	14.3. The Render Procedure
	14.4. Rendering
	14.5. Rendering an Image
	14.6. Rendering a Video File
	14.7. Video Codecs
15. Making a Movie
	15.1. Making a Movie
	15.2. Storyboard
	15.3. The Sound File
	15.4. Video Editing Workspace
	15.5. File Browser Editor
	15.6. Preparation
	15.7. Video Sequence Editor
	15.8. Rendering the Movie File
	15.9. Additional Features
16.	Using a Drawing Tablet
	16.1. Emulating a Three-Button Mouse
	16.2. Blender Preferences Editor
	16.3. 3D Viewport Editor Controls
	16.4. Tablet Properties
	16.5. Wacom Tablet Properties
	16.6. Drawing Examples
17.	Download & Installation
	17.1. Blender and the Book
	17.2. Download Blender
	17.3. Installing on Windows
	17.4. Installing the ZIP Option
	17.5. Installing on Linux
	17.6. Installing Earlier Versions
	17.7. Running (Opening) Blender
18. Navigate & Save
	18.1. Saving Work
	18.2. Files and Folders
	18.3. Saving a Blender File
	18.4. Navigating the File System
	18.5. The File Browser Editor
19. Add-ons
	19.1. The included Add-on
	19.2. Downloading Add-ons
	19.3. Installing the Python File
	19.4. Add-on Another Way
20. Internet Resources
21. Index