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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.

The Grease Pencil is a particular type of Blender object that allows you to draw in the 3D space. It can be used to make traditional 2D animation, cut-out animation, motion graphics or used as storyboard tool among other things.

enter image description here An example of a Grease Pencil object in the 3D environment.

The object acts as a container of strokes that you can create using drawing tools in Draw Mode. More detailed editing of the strokes is done in Edit Mode, and Sculpt Mode. To obtain best results with Grease Pencil is highly recommended to use a Graphics Tablet.

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How to draw grease pencil on a surface (blender 2,75)?

I used to draw grease pencil on surface normally on older blender versions but now I cant find the option to do that,how can I draw on surface on the new blender grease pencil?
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How do I merge 2 Grease Pencil vertices?

I have 2 Grease Pencil strokes each consisting of 2 vertices, where both start from the same spot. (see A in image) Is there a way I can merge these 2 strokes into one continuous stroke consisting of only 3 vertices? (see B in image) I'm looking for…
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Grease pencil animation tweening

When animating with the grease pencil, is it possible to create automatic inbetweens for the different shapes? You would for example create a keyframe at frame 1 and another keyframe at frame 10 and have Blender do the middle part. Or is it only…
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How to record this drawing effect?

I think this effect can be done with Blender grease-pencil. I understand 3D tracking camera and object. But how to record the drawing process in Blender?
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Edit Grease Pencil Strength

i've just started studying Grease Pencil and did some basic animations. After some work i've noticed that all my strokes were painted with a semi transparent strength. Can i change the strength of my strokes after i've drawed them? i'm sure is not…
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Grease Pencil objects

playing around with the greasepencil stuff I am wondering if there is already the possibility to: transform (move,scale,rotate) grease pencils along with their parent objects? hide the parent object but keep the greasepencil visible? E.g. create…
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Duplicating grease pencil layers?

when I try to duplicate grease pencil layers using the "copy/paste" buttons I get a: "keyframe pasting not available for grease pencil mode" Any idea what I am doing wrong?
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How to disable x-ray for annotations (grease pencil) in 2.8?

Is it even possible in 2.8? In 2.7 we had such ability, but now, when grease pencil and annotations are separate things, xray possible disable only for grease pencil, but not for annotations
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Convert Annotations to Grease Pencil

There is obviously an answer to the question of converting GPencil from 2.79 to 2.8 here. Convert old GP to new GP And this works but only if you open a 2.79 file with Gpencil in it. The Gpencil shows as annotations and you can use the same…
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Blender 2.8 greasePencil Poly and surface drawing

In the new grease pencil what is the way to stick a surface and where we can find the poly option to create simple block shapes like a typography custom.
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How to change display/render order of several grease pencil objects in Blender 2.82?

I have 4 grease pencil objects. I am trying to get one to be displayed in front of the other ones but I can't find a way to do it. I could just pull it closer to the camera in the 3D space but then sometimes I get ugly white lines around the object.…
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Blender 2.8 Grease Pencil disable x-ray

How can I disable the X-Ray effect of grease pencil (aka Annotations), so that what I write on a face of a mesh cannot be seen when that face is hidden? Is it possible?
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Grease pencil color while actively drawing

In Blender 2.78a, you can change the color of the grease pencil, but the drawn lines remain black while you are drawing, and only become the desired color once the mouse is released. gp_layer.tint_color = Vector([0,1,0]) gp_layer.tint_factor =…
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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 lines/bezier curves/polygon curves. That makes lines…
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Lines with dots and density changing with zoom

[ Hi, Why my line are doted like that in grease pencil ? It does that only with textured brushes, also density change depending on zoom, thanks.
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