THE VIDEO SHELF · 2d animation in blender
HERO – Blender Grease Pencil Showcase
HERO is a short animated film made entirely in Blender to showcase the Grease Pencil 2D animation tools in Blender 2.8. It mixes hand-drawn 2D with a full 3D pipeline.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as an impressive demo of Blender's open-source 2D/3D hybrid animation and as a comparison for other 2D animation tools.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Blender
- Topic
- 2d animation in blender
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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2.8 already has the vastly more useful version of grease pencil, and the demo the foundation commissioned was amazing. I love how seamlessly they mix the 3D in with the direct illustration. It shows what skilled animators can do with a tool like Blender. [VIDEO]
microcolonel on Hacker News · 2019-08
In Japanese anime studio Khara moving to BlenderBlender can do that, too, with the "Grease Pencil". [LINK] Here's a short film produced as a grease pencil showcase. At the end, it shows what working with it looks like. [VIDEO]
avhon1 on Hacker News · 2021-07
In Blender and the Rabbids
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