- You can recreate old arcade characters in full HD glory with Grease Pencil in Blender
The Blender conference 2019 presented many new tools concerning painting. The next step for grease pencil is in AR for world creation. If you want to know more about the full potential for creating 2d animation, read on…
Rigging in Grease Pencil
Blender is a powerful software in terms of 3d animation. Grease pencil is one of the tools included in Blender to create 2D animation.
The following video will cover these topics:
- How to set an image reference.
- Draw and erase lines.
- Refine strokes with the sculpt tools.
- How to apply Grease Pencil effects.
- Apply masks in Grease Pencil layers.
- How to work with the top tool bar and select colors and layers.
- Setup an Armature for rigging the 2d character.
- How to create a basic arm IK.
- Paint weights to correctly influence vertices in the grease pencil object.
Marvel vs Capcom is one of my old time favorite arcade games and the character design was definitely something I wanted to do in Blender for the longest time. Now, you can get the file for Blender 2.81 Grease Pencil; by clicking on the download button:
What do you think of it? Have you played old school fighting arcades?
Rigging a posed character using bendy-bones wasn’t hard but it takes patience to test each piece one by one.
Jimmy Gunawan is an experienced professional blender user, and he experimented with this grease pencil animation on his tech research. He did an amazing tutorial using Lens Studio for AR (go check him out!):
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