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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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How to make onion skin the same color as the sketch?

I am doing an animation of a hand using Grease Pencil, and for the sketch, I have each finger and the thumb a different color. How do I make the Onion Skin have the same colors as the sketch?
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How to stagger linked duplicate grease pencil animations?

I don't know the term for this as I can't find what I am looking for through googling. I have a grease pencil object with a frame by frame animation. I have created a linked duplicate, as I want the ...
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Grease pencil lineart modifier does not appear through the image plane

An image plane acts as a barrier for the grease pencil lineart modifier as if it's an actual plane. Is there a way for the lineart modifier to pass through flat planes? Could there be an add-on ...
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Lighting a 2d city in Grease Pencil using a shader

I'm drawing a 2d city in Grease Pencil. I'm wondering if there is a way to light the city using Shaders? Or should I just use an actual 3d light or lighter-colored brushstrokes to achieve the desired ...
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Grease pencil line art is missing edges

I want to outline the edges of the following chip object using a grease pencil line art modifier. However, it only outlines some of the edges: only the ones forming the silhouette of the object. The ...
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Line Art renders everything instead of only sillhouette

I believe I have a bug with the Line Art feature of the Grease Pencile. It renders everything though I chose only to render an individual silhouette. I have a heavy scene with a lot of trees and grass....
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Can't mark a Grease Pencil Material to an asset browser?

If I right-click the Grease Pencil Material, I can't see the menu that I make an asset. However, Grease pencil objects can be made with assets. Is the only way to make Grease pencil material an asset? ...
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View Camera: decoupling view rotation from camera

I'm trying out Grease Pencil for 2D animation. When I start drawing, I naturally use the View Camera (shortcut: NumPad 0), whose rectangular outline delineates the 2D canvas. But when looking through ...
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2D Grease Pencil Animation: Fill Not Working

so I'm having an issue with the 2D Fill Tool. I draw the face and I've closed off all the gaps and it still will not fill, any idea why? Do I need to draw the head in one line? Is there some setting ...
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Grease Pencil partially rendering on Eevee, with some lines disappearing with 'edge marks'

Good day! I am currently having problems when trying to render the grease pencil. I made a model that only uses the option "Edge Marks" in the Line Art modifier. In the viewport, everything ...
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Modifier Line art doesn't work

Line Art modifier doesn't work at all. I have an active camera in my scene. I tried to use different ways, but it didn't help. My file https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zgR3m5Bfxmz6qX-Venh4RUQeGdpOxsAD/...
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Is there a way in Grease Pencil to cut the end of those stripes?

Is there a way in Grease Pencil to cut the end of those stripes?
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Mapping .svg (grease pencil) of face onto 3d model

Essentially I want to project a drawing with grease pencil on a 3d surface so that the graphic grease pencil objects map physically onto the surface. project/map vector drawing (drawing) onto a 3d ...
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When rigging my grease pencil object gets stuck at a point

I want the black grease pencil line on the shoe to move with the foot. some of it moves (the part connected to the shoe) but some of it stays behind. Why? How can I just get it all to move with the ...
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Graphic symbol like in Adobe Animate

Does Blender have a built in feature or any addons for something like Adobe Animate's graphic symbol? It is like a thing where it has its own timeline inside, so for example: I draw a man running in ...
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The option in the panel shows the length of the Grease Pencil line when drawing

This code shows the parameter change on Panel, BUT it is done after releasing the mouse button. If I replace return {'PASS_THROUGH'} with return {'RUNNING_MODAL'}, the parameter is updated correctly, ...
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GREASE PENCIL - Create square closed line per face (Quad)

I have add -> Grease Pencil -> Collection line Art Is it possible to force the creation of the line to be a closed square for each face on a quad mesh ? Instead to have line connected in chaos ...
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Has the shortcut for the Annotation Tool's eraser function been changed?

Previously, D+RMB would bring up the eraser tool, and rotating the mouse wheel in this state would resize the eraser. But in 4.0 this does not work What is the current shortcut? And is there any way ...
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My grease pencil is either 100% or 0% influenced in weight painting

I have a really basic mesh, and I've sketched some grease pencil detail over the top (in this specific case, a mesh head with grease pencil facial features). I can rig and weight paint the mesh so ...
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Issues of Image overlay after Render in Grease Pencil

Please check the Screenshot, where I am facing the issue of image overlay after Render in Grease pencil. The Scarf is over the character but after render the scarf goes back of the Character. The left ...
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What is the scaling factor of the grease pencil brush radius when using thickness as World space?

The brush radius of the grease pencil is exposed in "pixels" in the UI and in the API. ...
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Multiple lineart silhouettes/outlines with different colors (layer order)

I would like to create Blender line art that outlines an object in black with an additional larger outline in white. When I create image 1 using Greasepencil line art and try to add a white outline by ...
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bpy Camera Stroke Modifier code attempt: Menu not showing, property not working

I'm trying to create an addon that offers a sort of third option from the Screen Space vs World Space stroke thickness. Inspired by this post, the idea is that upon activation, and on every update ...
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Grease-Pencil - SVG export Stroke Depth Order

When I export my grease pencil as SVG and open it in Vector Software, the Stroke Depth Order for Fill color is gone... So I'm missing something or it just not implemented ? Thanks
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Blender Greace Pencil - 2D view captures object from the top

I have worked with Blender a while back, however this is my first time using greace pencil. I have drawn an object and made sure I drew it in the right view. However, when I click the camera to go to ...
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Grease Pencil Fill Tool: How to make the radius markers match the drawing plane?

When using the fill tool and MMB dragging to adjust the gap closure radius size, the circles look like this if the drawing plane is set to "Top (X-Y)" : I have the grease pencil orientation ...
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Blender Grease Pencil - key frame animation is continuous instead of frame by frame

Please see the image below..I have onion skinning and auto-keying turned off, I should note. I have tried opening a new file with auto-keying turned on and do not seem to have this problem. I know it ...
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How do I change the sensitivity settings to affect the opacity instead of the brush width?

How do I change the sensitivity settings to affect the opacity instead of the brush width for grease pencil, latest update? It would also be helpful to know which brushes I should use for the sketch ...
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Grease Pencil - Convert mesh to grease pencil with color Attributes

I have Converted a mesh with Color Attribute (vertex color) to grease pencil. It create solid Fill Shaders for each different Color Attribute but all are white ... Is it possible to keep all color ...
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Updating screen upon adding a Grease Pencil point

I am trying to see if hand tracking with mediapipe can be used to draw on screen with Grease Pencil. I've managed a rough set up to track hands and add points accordingly thanks to this answer but ...
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Is it possible to programmatically draw GreasePencil strokes?

I am toying with the idea of using MediaPipe for hand tracking and use that for drawing GreasePencil strokes. The hand-tracking part is quite well documented, but how would I then relate that to ...
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Grease Pencil - Change Line art color according to background color

im working on a black and white shading style. Using grease pencil i've managed to create pretty convincing outlines on my main scene. Im using 2 colors only black / white What id like to do is to ...
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Can I use grease pencil Object line art to do science schematics?

I'd like to replicate the figure below with two cylinders and some rease pencil objects line art. Is there a simple way to do this? Here is what I have done so far (I'd rather disable the shadows ...
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Reverse GreasePencil frames via python?

I'm trying to make a operator/script that reverses the selected Here is the script with the basic code: ...
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Extract only GreasePencil lines

I want to extract only the lines used in LineArt, is there a way to do this? I tried setting the object path to GPencil, but it doesn't seem to be masked correctly. The line will also be composited ...
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Can't seem to find the canvas slider anywhere?

I've been following a blender tutorial, its literally my first time in this software. In the tutorial it mentions having a grease pencil object selected in order to see the Canvas slider option in ...
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Is it possible to "apply" a grease pencil mask?

I would like to commit the changes made by a grease pencil mask to the affected grease pencil layer. The reason this is important is that I have a mask that is getting skewed by an armature animation, ...
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3D animated grease pencil brush stroke

I've been working in AE with a paint brush line that animates on and winds between objects in the frame. I've been liking the paint brush looks in grease pencil a lot better than I've been able to ...
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Any way to reflect grease pencil objects in mirrors (reflection plane) in Eevee?

I'm a storyboard artist and recently I've been using Blender for my animatics. A game dev friend recommanded that I use Eevee for my renders as its way less ressource hungry than Cycles. Using a ...
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How Do You Delete Vertices That Aren't Seen By Camera Using Geometry Nodes?

I've been trying to recreate the Grease Pencil Line Art Modifier using Geometry Nodes. I'm pretty close, but I'm wondering: How do you delete vertices that aren't seen by the camera? I've been trying ...
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Blender Camera Clipping Reversal Issues with Freestyle/LineArt Rendering

I've been working on a project in Blender where I attempted to achieve a specific visual effect by intentionally reversing the camera's Clipping Start and Clipping End settings. In particular, I set ...
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Export as grease pencil SVG showing up Blank

I'm trying to export an SVG so its visible in Inscape but the SVG that I open after exporting in Inkscape is just shadows. The render looks completely fine. I followed this tutorial but cant figure ...
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Get (and set) vertex/point weight from/to a GreasePencilPoint? (Python)

Im a bit confused. I'm trying to get the weight from every vertex/point in a GreasePencil Stroke, to later assign them to another stroke in a different frame. I can access the (active) GreasePencil by ...
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Importing SVG as Grease Pencil

I am trying to import an SVG file and because when using the bpy.ops.import_curve.svg() the imported file seems not correct, I would like to use the ...
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How to add a contour to light for an NPR shader?

I'm using Grease Pencils Lineart Modifier to outline objects. Freestyle works just as well. How can I get the highlights to be contoured with the same stroke? Here's the material. Grease pencils ...
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Why is the grease pencil on this specific area didn't render like the rest of the outlines?

Why is the grease pencil on the bottles area didn't render like the rest of the outlines? For additional info, those lines that didn't render properly were drawn while in front view while the rest is ...
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How do I make grease pencil outline ignore surrounding meshes?

I am looking to solve an issue I'm experiencing when using a Grease Pencil Outline. Whenever there is a Mesh in front of the outline (from the camera's perspective) the outline will create a gap in ...
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Strange results with Grease Pencil Fills, Holdout Materials, a 3D object and Render Transparency

I'm rather new to Blender so apologies if the answer is obvious. I'm attempting to use a Grease Pencil Fill Material with Holdout to 'cut through' another fill and reveal a 3D object behind the Grease ...
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grease pencil freeze and crash blender when I add it [particule / instancing problem ?]

I wanted to add a line art modifier to the chara. When I add the line art, the moment when you put the default material into the Material box, it freeze indefinitely and then crash. The problem being ...
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Grease Pencil rendering and view port

When I use Grease Pencil I get this weird antialiasing or overlapping issue - the line is drawn on the surface with an offset - it's not going into the cube - furthermore I have Z passes enabled - I'...
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