Let's start by drawing the reference lines, which will help us to position the various elements of the face well. Traditionally the drawing of a manga is first done freehand (here in Blender you could use the interesting Draw tool of Grease Pencil) then traced and inked in this tutorial we will try instead to realize it directly in its final version, as if it were a vector drawing, until reaching a result similar toĭue to its length the tutorial has been divided into two parts, thus also facilitating the loading operations.

The first beta of Blender 2.8 will be available in the second part of 2018.In this tutorial about the Grease Pencil for Blender 2.8 we will show you how to draw a manga in fact the 2D drawing tool of this software has recently been enriched with many features (see also Grease Pencil in Blender 2.8 - Introduction, try to practice with the various tools) and therefore its use may have become interesting also for the mangaka. The inclusion of Grease Pencil in Blender for mainstream release is part of the Blender 2.8 Code Quest, an outstanding development effort that is currently happening at the Blender headquarters in Amsterdam.

This is the 6th short film funded by the Blender Cloud, confirming once more the value of a financial model that combines crowdfunding of artistic and technical goals through the creation of Open Content. The Hero animation showcase is a fruit of the collaboration between Blender developers and a team of artist based in Barcelona, Spain, led by Daniel M. The upcoming Grease Pencil is meant to push the boundaries and allows feature quality animation production in Blender 2.8. The original Grease Pencil technology has been in Blender for many years now, and it already got the attention of story artists in the animation industry worldwide. Grease Pencil means 2D animation tools within a full 3D pipeline. After a series of successful short film production focused on high-end 3D computer animation pipelines, the Blender team presents a 3 minutes short film showcasing Blender’s upcoming Grease Pencil 2.0.

Blender 2.78b grease pencil animation