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But there’s a challenge, and an opportunity. “It’s hard to find people who do hybrid storyboarding,” Alex says. “I assume that in ten years, you’ll have many artists working in this way. But at the moment, it’s still new. I know very few boarders using Grease Pencil.” Layers box height, width, font size, and left-handed mode are customizable in add-on preferences. Timeline Scrub 

You can use Reproject to flatten all the selected strokes from a certain viewpoint. Reprojected Type Front : Alexandre has a couple of projects in development. But he’s also working on an independent animated feature, Maryam & Varto — which promises to be beautiful and thrilling. You can see an animatic here. On top of Maryam & Varto, Alex is working on an international animated project. Blender helps Alex visualize the film cost-effectively, giving a solid sense of the overall project. “I’m pushing a way of working where we do a first pass in Blender, using only low-poly characters and environments. Plus some basic rendering in EEVEE, and a bit of rigging. Basically, staging each scene in Blender to get a feel for it. Then capturing stills of these 3D images and using them as the basis for more refined 2D art. Which in turn fuels the more traditional 3D part of the production.”Alex likes the shadow effects created by Grease Pencil materials. “When you bring a light into the face of a character, you get this nice soft shadow. It looks amazing. It’s not flat anymore.” He continues: “I really am in love with this hybrid workflow. It’s especially amazing for someone like me, who has to nail his ideas as fast as possible.” Special thanks goes to Tangent Animation and Aleph Objects, who funded 4 additional developers to work full-time on Blender 2.8 during the crucial 2017 period. This enabled us to work on the viewport, Eevee, collections/layers, UI and tools redesign.

Still, Alex has noticed a new breed of boarder emerging. “You see a lot of younger people, just coming from school, people who have grown up in a world of 3D film. They use 3D more easily, and they’re already using Blender. In a few years, you’ll see more and more people like this.” The shortcut enable the scrubbing when hovering timeline editors as well (dope-sheet, sequencer, etc). Today, Grease Pencil has grown even more. It is used by small and big studios around the world. Movies like “Unicorn Wars” have been fully animated with it. Against these huge, tragic events, Maryam & Varto tells the intimate story of two Armenian children fleeing the Ottomans… and encountering an unlikely ally. “The story of two Armenian kids being rescued by a Turkish teenager is based on reality,” says Alex. “Events like this really did occur.” Currently, however, the only hybrid storyboarder on Alex’s team is… Alex. “I think this technique delivers the most value in action sequences, where space and camera movement are paramount. As opposed to comedy or drama, where the core of the scene is about timing and performance. There you can convey what’s needed with a traditional, flat storyboard.”Thanks goes to everyone who contributed to the Code Quest, the massively successful 3 month workshop in Blender Institute during spring 2018. doesn’t even work with an outliner simple drag and drop. You have to press shift to make it work. For something that has to be used 1000 times a day, it’s not optimal.