


Grease Pencil Pie Menu and Sculpt strokes This is how you can animate bones to affect your grease layers. To parent a grease layer, you have to go to the BONE option under the Grease Layer panel and select the object you want to parent the layer with. Rename the view and Click on the BOX icon. Or 3d window view to a previous position. If you mess up, there´s a nifty new feature on Blender 2.79 which will store a camera You can set your view to orthographic by pressing 5 while you´re aligned to the view you want to draw.

So I was making some strokes and AGHHH! I moved my camera! The drawing just messed up!Įasy breezy. Softimage had this feature way back since it was created (around 1998) but Blender finally implemented it, and I thought to put it to use with one of the most emergent things commonly happening during a paint session on the grease pencil. Wait, I know what you´re all thinking: How am I going to draw "planely" on a 3d space? Does the cursor and stroke know where the raycast will hit? I mean, I can´t even do this on other "commercial" packages, so why can Blender.?!! Yes, Blender does that and did I mention Blender DOES pick up your tablet strokes as smoothly as a regular 2D drawing application? in my case I use a 19" UGEE tablet. Press the letter "D" on your keyboard to start drawing on your viewport. Make sure you hace checked "Continuous drawing" on your T Panel. If you really want quality on your strokes, please set Smoothness and Iterations to 3. On your left side T Panel you´ll find more settings for grease pencil like thickness and sensitivity.

I then created many different layers with stroke and fill colors you can see on the lower part of the N panel at the right side of the viewport. In case you´re interested, the geometry was added through CreaPrim addon for blender, and was chosen as one of the iconic generic geometries from Softimage. I finally got the chance to download Blender 2.79 release candy 2 and I want to show you a couple of nifty features about the grease pencil and store camera views.
