Blender History? One of my favorite subjects. First, a little animation history. In the ancient times of the late 1900s(1970s to 2010s) Computer monitors where made with glass. Animation Directors and Technical Directors would make notes and show information on a monitor by drawing on the monitor with…..That’s right a grease pencil. Now the Blender history. The Blender developers added a digital version of this and called it grease pencil. This was very helpful for people to work from all over the world thru the internet. Since Blender is community driven, the developers added some additional features to the grease pencil. It was still just an annotation tool, but people started using it for storyboarding and even animation. Then came the big 2.80 blender rewrite(It’s debated as to if this was the second or third one.) This is when Grease Pencil became an actual 2D animation system. The old grease pencil is now just called the Annotation Tool. It has come a long way since 2018. So the answer to your question is, because the community wanted it. There was enough people who wanted it that the developers said Okay hold my beer and now we have it. I’d also like to point out that Grease Pencil is a major part of why Blender has been added to Korean and Japanese animation studios. Like Project Studio Q. To say that people aren’t using it would be wrong.
