Opentoonz VS Grease Pencil | Blender

in today's video we will look at two of the most interesting software in 2D animation open tunes and Grace pencil in blender and hopefully we will help you find good software to start with before we continue let me tell you about skillshare which is a platform that has hundreds of classes about animation drawing illustration and several other creative fields we have covered a lot of videos on our Channel about open Tunes so now we've got you guys this course from skillshare which will help you learn the 2D software it's a beginner course that anyone can join and it is taught by nikolafork who will teach you how to create all the essentials of open Toons and you will be trained in different things like character creation and animation but also a bouncing ball or image animation the skillshare platform offers a wide variety of additional related courses and the first 1000 people to click the link in the description will receive a free month of Premium membership alright now back to the video software overview blender grease pencil blender is a free open source 3D package with so many different utilities like creating 3D models 3D animation motion captures and virtual reality apps but did you know that it is capable of making 2D animations as well yes it may sound strange to think of making 2D art in a 3D environment but with the help of an incredible tool like grease pencil all becomes possible Grace pencil is a blender object and one of the main tools used to make 2D animation and art by offering 2D tools fully immersed in a 3D environment it allows you to draw within 3D viewport as a collection of points which are defined as a stroke grease pencil offers you a range of advanced tools for modeling simulation rendering animation and compositing it can also be used to make traditional 2D animation cutout animation Motion Graphics and more open tunes on the flip side opentunes is another open source software option for 2D animation it is the free version of tunes which has been used for a long time by big studios such as Studio Ghibli and rough draft Studios open Tunes is dubbed Tunes Ghibli Edition because of all the custom features that Tunes has developed over the years for the legendary Japanese studio and just like the paid version it provides features for the entire animation process from scanning and transforming traditional drawing tools through raster and vector-based drawing tools special effects and rendering foreign regarding the UI open tunes's interface is organized into rooms also known as workspaces available rooms are listed in the upright of the menu bar and each room is a different collection of windows that are laid out in specific positions on the screen the canvas which is infinite and can be scrolled zoomed in or out and rotated as desired is where we will sketch and view our work on the left side we'll find the toolbar that contains tools to draw select and edit drawings and to animate objects like the camera all the way on the right and unlike other animation software we have the X cheat which is basically a vertical timeline that allows you to manage the scene content next to the X cheat we have the level strip which displays the sequence of images or frames listed out for the current level selected in the X sheet finally we find the level palette panel with some color options by going deep to the bottom in addition to all of that the interface can be fully customized runes can be named and their order can be rearranged changed as we can add new rooms and delete the existing ones jumping to Greece pencil as soon as you open blender in the splash screen you can choose between different workspaces like General 2D animation sculpting and Etc but the 2D animation workspace is the best choice to use the grease pencil tool though you can draw in any other workspace by default we will be in draw mode where we can draw immediately then we can switch between object edit sculpt draw and wait paint modes using the top left menu with a few additional attributes to pick the brush and change settings light color radius strength and so on the menu bar will appear above it the toolbar which is accessible by moving to the left contains handy tools including the pencil fill eraser and cutter tool we have a few panels on the opposite side including the scene collection grid modifier and layers sadly there are so many that we are unable to delve further finally the timeline in dope sheet which are crucial for animation and are located at the bottom of our screen tools and features grease pencil grease pencil comes with interesting drawing tools and great capabilities that combine the power of 2D in 3D grease pencil is a vector-based system it means you can modify every aspect of your drawings and animations and with a good variety of brushes and a basic layering system you can draw and animate on a 2d plane in a 3D space you can also draw in three dimensions and on top of 3D objects moreover there is a modifier that adds Grace pencil lines to your 3D geometry automatically also it supports onion skinning which shows ghosts of the keyframes before and after the current frame allowing animators to make the animation smoother you can edit several frames simultaneously with a multi-frame feature this also works for drawing and coloring extremely useful to avoid making a repetitive task one frame at a time when animating open Tunes opentunes has cool features as well that have been iterated based on the opinions of production staff we will take a look at some starting with the scanning and cleanup images by Auto centering to align each drawing according to the peg bar holes and line processing to identify the drawings line art finally image cropping and resizing to make the drawings fit properly with a camera just as grease pencil in open twos we have onion skinning as well which is available in both the X cheat slash timeline and the level strip another cool feature is rotoscoping which consists of tracing drawings and taking a live clip as a reference which can speed up your workflow learning curve blender including grease pencil has a steep learning curve that will take time patience and plenty of dedicated practice before you get comfortable with the software but once you get the basics down blender becomes intuitive compared to other 3D programs like Maya and Cinema 4D in addition to the community of users available online support can be found at any time on the other hand open Tunes features and tools are designed to be used in specific ways that might not be intuitive but still it is a great program to learn basic animations once you get your head around how the workflow is designed if you're struggling to understand the program there are pretty good supporting documents that could be of great help Industries both open tubes and blender are heavily used when it comes to 3D art blender is mostly used in the filament video game industries that require 3D environment support on top of that many 2D studios are experimenting with grease pencil or already using it so learning Grace pencil can open opportunities for you similarly open Tunes is highly used in the animation industry especially in Japan even though marrying the witch's Flower by Studio honak was the first film to use the free version in 2017. earlier versions of tunes have been massively used in professional Productions especially by Studio Ghibli to produce animation movies like The Tale of the princess kaguya Howl's Moving Castle and The Wind Rises that's it for today we hope you found this video useful and we thank you so much for watching and of course we hope to see you in the next one foreign

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Length: 8min 18sec (498 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 05 2023