Questions tagged [grease-pencil]

The Grease Pencil tools allow Blender users to draw lines inside of the 3D viewport. Possible uses for the resulting sketches include scene and animation planning as well as in-scene descriptions. They can be converted to curve objects and organised in layers.

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convert to grease pencil changes the mesh

I have this sqrt of 2 and a plus as an imported svg mesh: (yes I know the sqrt is weird, it's a confirmed bug in blender) If I convert that to grease, the mesh changes: it fixes the bug and adds some ...
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Extract Palette Threshold?

I'm working on a Grease Pencil project and I was following a great tutorial (link below) where he uses [Image Editor] Extract Palette... > Threshold to simplify (reduce) the palette colors. Maybe ...
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Basic Consistently sized outline with depth

I am struggling to create a very simple outline because of its criteria. I would like the outline to not draw atop the object and affect the object's size, and the width to scale as if it were an ...
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Grease pencil stroke is very thick but can't find adjustment

I'm a new user of blender. I'm importing a svg file with python and setting the material with python as well. However, somewhere in the process the thickness is getting ruined. svg looks nice without ...
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Substract lineart from lineart

I would like to substract the blue lineart from the black one: Creating this: Is this possible or are there other ways to have or see no lineart at the place of the blue lineart?
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Grease Pencil: Is there a way to create a centerline instead of an outline when doing 'trace image to grease pencil'?

I would like to trace multiple images to grease pencil. The problem is that it always creates an outline. What I need is just the centerline so that I can adjust the overall shape thickness later and ...
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Grease Pencil: Python script to create a line connects to origin

I am writing a script that draws a grease pencil line between two points. While the script draws the line, strangely enough, it also connects the line to the origin. Here is the script: ...
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Bubble transparency [closed]

Im working on making water for animation, but the bubbles from the other side show through the water. I've tried Z-Pass and adjusting the depth of camera but I'm not sure what else to do. The bubbles ...
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How to turn off black border in camera perspective view

Hello Blender Community! Does anybody know if it is possible to toggle on/off the black outline in the camera view? The closest I've come is the passepartout toggle, but that toggles the area outside ...
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Grease pencil seems to not care about the material

I have this "x" as a grease object. For some reason, it does not want to render with blue border, and red fill: Render result: Any idea of what is wrong?
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System consol keep showing the warning: empty keymap 'Grease Pencil'

My consol is going crazy: Can I somehow fix this? =D First, I'm not sure if this warning is related to my own key configuration which I keep updating occasionally. I could have messed up with some ...
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Getting the grease pencil to render in a 360 panorama

I drew with the grease pencil different furniture. In the end I want to have a 360 panorama video to enjoy it with a VR gear. My problem is, when i render the scene, all the meshs are distorted as ...
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Grease pencil line art modifier isn't showing on scaled objects?

Extremely new to Blender so pardon my ignorance – I'm trying to use Grease Pencil with a Line Art modifier to create some simple outlined shapes. The line art shows up fine on the default cube object, ...
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grease pencil object not showing up in render

one grease pencil is not showing up in render. render box is checked. visible in render preview. rendering with evee. view port display is checked view in front. and I moved in y space to move it in ...
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Making a Text object to a grease object with Python

I would like to convert an existing text object to a grease object. Meaning that the text is a path with a grease material. All with Python. Does anyone have experience with this?
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Grease fill does not respect linewidth

I have a grid consisting of grease lines and some circles with grease as well: I can fill these circles with the same color, however these fills does not have any thickness - the lines do and so they ...
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I want to detect overlapping strokes and the resulting segments just like the cutter tool and segment selection mode in grease pencil edit mode

What the title says: I want to detect overlapping strokes and the resulting segments just like the cutter tool and segment selection mode in grease pencil edit mode. and i want to use the blender code/...
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Coloured at object mode but white at render? 2D Character

I tried messing around with all the settings that I could but didnt fix my problem. I was creating this rigged 2d character, everything was fine until I checked rendered version. The eyes and mouth of ...
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Why can't I copy and paste the grease pencil keyframe?

It is in Grease Pencil mode that DopeSheet does not allow you to copy and paste keyframes. I reset the Keymap settings to factory defaults. I still can't copy and paste. Why? Blender 3.0.0
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Randomizing the rotation (direction and angular velocity) of 'images as planes' from a single particle emitter

This feels like such a trivial thing to do and I feel like quite the idiot for not solving it already. I am in the middle of 'learning blender3.4 by fire' and attempting to create a 2D animation of an ...
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Convert grease pencil strokes to an extruded mesh preserving stroke thickness

I've googled different ways to convert the grease pencil stroke to the mesh. Unfortunately, they all do not respect the stroke thickness, because all the ways that I found use direct conversion to ...
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Grease Pencil animation problem: old frame persists after making new keyframe (VİDEO)

Why does the old keyframe not disappear even though I put in a new keyframe? VİDEO: https://youtu.be/57Er6DBfQjk
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Can't see grease pencil Blender version 3.3.4

I'm new to 2d animation in blender and can't figure out why I can't see what I'm drawing until I lift my pen. I've tried following tutorials and looking at forums but I can't an answer to my question
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How can we prevent the fill of rigged Grease Pencil shapes from cutting corners?

Is there a way of keeping the fill contained in the stroke ... as shown below?
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Grease Pencil Lag in newer versions 3.4+

Grease Pencil performs as expected in 2.93, but lags in 3.4 so that you can't see stroke while pen is down. I'm using Wacom on Intel mac. Any ideas?
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Trick to get motion blur to work on grease objects?

I have a circle object made with Grease pencil (circle with black fill) and a simple sphere mesh If I make a simple animation, moving each circle/sphere out to the side and enable motion blur I get: ...
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grease pencil point's vertex_color attribute different than color picker values

I've noticed that if I query the vertex_color of points in strokes created in vertex color mode in Python, it returns values that are different than the values shown in the color picker color used to ...
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Any Grease Pencil Edit Mode setting to only select points inside selection rectangle, ignoring fills?

After following these steps... Create a grease pencil object Draw a stroke with a fill Enter edit mode Activate the 'Select Box' tool Set the Select mode to 'Select only points' (keyboard '1') Draw a ...
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Grease pencil eraser Slices the color, how to fix for future work flow

ITs on dissolve (hard eraser) and it dint do what it should do but instead slices the color in half or even worse pushes it away... need help, on whats going on.
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Using Grease Pencil, one image in front of another image, that it should be behind

as you can see from second image (RollingBall_2.png), the "Ball" layer is in-between the layer, "Frame-work", and layer "Table", but the "Ball" passes in front ...
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Using fill tool ignores lines within

I am new to Blender 2d, and I am trying to get familiar. I have a bit of an issue with the fill tool. It works fine in the sense that the fill tool stays contained in within the shape where it's used. ...
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Convert Grease Pencil to Curve via Python? [duplicate]

I'm trying to piece together a script that will take a selected list of grease pencil objects and convert them to curves, one frame at a time. I'm calling upon the operator to convert the Grease ...
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Grease Pencil Randomize is grayed out

In draw mode in grease pencil, in strokes in the randomize section, hue and the other ones are grayed out, how do I fix that?
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EEVEE - make shadeless "image as plane" not effected by volumetrics and bloom like "grease pencil"

I'm making an environment that mixes 2D images and 3D objects. I want to give it a cartoon-ish look with uniform line art around each object. For the 2D images, I created the lineart in Photoshop, ...
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Boomerang type loops in Grease Pencil

To loop animations with Grease Pencil, I've been using the Time Offset modifier. This is works well when I want to restart the loop from the beginning but it doesn't do well with a "boomerang&...
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How to assign emission material to Line Art modifier?

I'm using the Line Art modifier on a grease pencil stroke assigned to a mesh. However the materials that are available to paint the stroke with are only diffuse shaders. Is there a way to make the ...
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Grease pencil only showing up at specific angle in the viewport and in render

I'm trying to draw lipsync in front of a character's face in a separate object, this has worked, but in a specific set of frames, I can't draw in front of the face, instead, it draws behind it. What'...
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Inconsistent Line Art thickness and opacity at low values

I used Line Art modifier to create some grease pencil strokes with line thickness of 10 and opacity of 1. Other than that, settings are default. Below is a snap from the rendered image, which shows ...
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Why I can't move key frame in Grease Pencil?

After making some animation, I want to adjust to the keyframe, but for some reason I can't move the keyframe, whether dragging or using the shortcut key G. Please see the sreenshot below, this happens ...
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Grease Pencil thickness inconsistency causing line boil/flickering/shimmering on camera move

I work only in grease pencil and have a possible anti-aliasing issue (I attempted to increase the grease pencil anti-aliasing past 1 to 10 to 100, while it looks different than 0 it is pointless past ...
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Make line art modifier more sensitive / pronounced

I am trying to make a render of a hand-drawn style face mesh, and to add the hand-drawn style outlines and sketch lines I am trying to use the line art modifier. Right now, my mesh with the line art ...
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I Want to separate grease pencil in compositor

Is there a Way of isolating the grease pencil like the freestyle pass or cryptomatte?. I can't find a way of doing it.
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Grease pencil View drawing plane

Is there a way, while drawing with Grease Pencil in - view drawing plane - , to tell Blender to rotate always the grease pencil object according to the camera view, so to mask the 2D nature no matter ...
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2d Animation Stuck on First Frame during playback

I'm new to blender and can't figure out how to solve this. I've been working on an animation for a couple days in greasepencil with audio. Everything was going ok but I'm not sure what button/setting ...
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My materials seem to be locked on one colour, and cannot be changed

I was using Blender to make an animation for a discord server, but suddenly the colour of the sketch (which was normally light blue) has become black and grey. I don't know if the application has a ...
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Editing Grease Pencil Points in View Space

I'd like to get the coordinates of my selected Grease Pencil points and move them in relation to the 2D Camera View Plane coordinates (as you do when you use the View Transform Orientation). For ...
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stroke not showing up while drawing

I'm in blender 3.4.1 grease pencil. When I draw a stroke, it is invisible until I release the mouse. thus, I cannot draw very accurately. Does anyone know how to fix? Thanks.
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Grease pencil is showing through objects when I turn on volumetrics

This is with volumetrics on, you can see little pixels of the grease pencil bleeding through objects in the foreground. This is with volumetrics off, here you can see the grease pencil is displaying ...
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How to convert Grease Pencil to Curves each frame?

I have based my script on this answer : How can I convert a Grease Pencil object to curve or mesh without operators? And the script works well when only converting the gpencil object to curves. But ...
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Grease Pencil Line-art layer: How to place it into a render pass / view layer?

This is the closest I get to have Grease Pencil Line-art modifier as a render pass: But it's very aliased and not a very good approach. How to do it better?

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