The Grease Pencil provides 2d animation tools within Blender’s free and open-source full-3d pipeline. For a clearer idea of what this means, take a look at the end credits of Hero which shows in ...

In the case of Blender’s tool, the production can now be rooted in actual 2d drawing techniques, while still taking full advantage of the technical possibilities of cg animation.

For 2D animators the Grease Pencil tool has been updated to be a full-fledged 3D blender object, enabling 2D animators to use the full suite of 3D animation tools included in Blender. The already ...