#blender2d

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SOFTWARE USED:

Blender 3.5.0 - Rough Sketch

MediBang - Outline and fill

Some more material tests for the rottmnt reanimated going on right now! check the tag for more on tumblr! :D

If you’re working with me, now is a good time to download and install blender.

I watched a lot of tutorials to start up, and I think this one is great; it’s a 7-min video that shows what can be done in Blender and the workflow one might use to do it. Keep in mind this is not for technical details (there’s no click here, use this shortcut, etc), this is for orienting what type of effect you can get out of Blender, what your timeline might look like, how to move from idea in your head to creating an animated shot.

So ideas were jogging in my head at this point... I was starting to think about what colors I wanted to use, how complex I wanted to be about character design, how long i wanted the animatic to be... essentially it seems like each frame has at least 4 passes: rough sketch, rough line, final lineart, and color, so simpler is better!

(for reference, i do two or three passes - rough sketch, then color - when i paint)

So a muted color palette (I’m thinking grayscale plus yellow for highlights and maybe a shadow color where i need to emphasize something), three characters, and like maximum five minutes of animatic are what I’m thinking at this point.

This was the other intro to blender 2d tutorial that was good; it got me clicking around the interface and learning where important buttons are, some basic shortcuts, and workspace window modes (e.g. edit vs draw mode), all through a little bee animation demo. It’s thirty minutes long. Please ignore the thumbnail it has nothing to do with what is discussed in the video Turn up the volume.

Note: my first awwwww :( after watching it was the ‘one color per material’ thing. I really envisioned... yk painting a character and animating the painted character. This is NOT what Blender offers, it seems like it has something to do with the vector nature of the Grease Pencil tool. I will have to see if it’s a MASSIVE sticking point (if switching softwares is necessary) but it just reads as like. A problem... coming from the bitmap/painting world.