
The videos are not new, in fact they still use Blender 2.5 Alpha 0, but this doesn’t mean that they won`t be useful.īlender 2.5 Grease Pencil Tutorial from Viralata on Vimeo.īlender 2.5 grease pencil tutorial part 2 from Viralata on Vimeo. If you never thought about grease pencil as a tool for architectural visualization, I just found two great tutorials about grease pencil, showing how to use them in an architectural visualization context. Grease Pencil allows you to start off a simple flat sketch and then quickly convert it into a 3D drawing that will help you with perspective without actually spending a lot of time on tedious 3D modelling. Since I also work as a teacher and evaluating projects from students all the time, using grease pencil is quite important for me, in order to keep a clear communication with students, about the problems and development of their projects.

But, a tool like grease pencil can be useful to architectural visualization artists too, and help on the process of developing details for a scene. In the last releases of Blender 2.4x a tool called grease pencil was added to allow animators to create notes and sketch over a character, making it possible to work and share notes on a team. 1 Directly after running () can be assured the new grease pencil object is gpencil context.object not necessarily will it be scene. Recently, I`ve worked on such movies as Starwars, Jurassic World 2, Ready Player One and many others.There are a lot of tools in Blender that help us to create architectural visualization, but some of them may add another layer of productivity, even for schools that teach architecture. I`m a professional art-director/concept artist working in the film industry.

Environment design using instancing and randomizer Grease Pencil is Blenders unique drawing tool, that lets you draw 2D shapes in 3D space, which opens up a whole new creative universe. Creating a 3D character design from a 2D flat sketch Grease Pencil allows you to start off a simple flat sketch and then quickly convert it into a 3D drawing that will help you with perspective without actually spending a lot of time on tedious 3D modelling. This one covers a creative workflow with Grease Pencil in 2.8 and Photoshop to create:
