Reply To: Greace Pencil and Fill Draws considerations and questions

Thanks for the message DB!

At the moment Blender 2.8 is still in Beta, so bugs/issues will be present and annoying but everything will eventually be fixed and improved.  It takes the brave people like you to start using it and helping the dev team squash all those quirks and bugs!

I think you mean ‘boundary strokes’ when you say ‘points concept’.  Is that right?

If so, yes, the devs know that the fill tool needs some work and they are working on improving it at the moment.

It isn’t an easy thing to do though.  I think this tool has a hard job.  It has to find points that could be anywhere in 3d space and then try to fill them with a 3d stroke that is projected onto a 2d plane that best represents the area within…aaahhh, sounds easy to me haha.

But don’t forget you can clean up the strokes with the ‘clear boundary strokes’ operator.

You’ll get the hang of clamping and working with Grease Pencil, like anything you learn, it takes practice.  And at first you want to give up and pretend that you never even tried, but it takes time to improve.  Have you ever attempted to brush your teeth with your non dominant hand?  I bet you last about 10 seconds before you give up and switch back saying ‘this is impossible’.

With the issue you mentioned, I’m not entirely sure I follow what you mean.  If you find a bug, which it sounds like you might have with the BG issue.  Then try to find a way to easily replicate it and report it.  That will help everybody.  But maybe you can post an image or video of what the issue is.

Why did I rig this instead of sculpt it?  For the exact purpose you mentioned above.  ‘curves are simpler and quicker’.

What if your whole character was rigged?  Then you could combine the powerful tools of armature animation with the beauty of 2d animation. (The best of both worlds)

I will show more in the future as the tools become more stable but what I have shown here is to hopefully plant the seed of possibilities for your own work.

Maybe you will find Grease Pencil is a great tool for the things you want to do with Blender, or maybe you will find that although when other people use Grease Pencil it looks awesome, it is not really your thing.

Both are totally ok.  You are the master of your learning 😉

I admire people that can model and sculpt. I can’t. I haven’t put in all the practice hours.

But I’m ok with with just admiring their work.

Oh and by the way, I’ve got an album coming out next week, you should buy it and leave me a review on iTunes haha 😛