Grease Pencil in the

Real World

Move away from "perfect" digital lines! And bring that hand-crafted feeling into the real world, moving around it in the 3D space.

Learn to blend handcrafted Grease Pencil art with reality. Master "imperfect" pencil strokes, efficient looping animations, and seamless real-world integration using Blender or After Effects.

You'll learn to achieve a tactile, crafty aesthetic where digital sketches gain an impossible-looking physicality in real 3D space .

Digital drawing of a green frog with large eyes, holding a paintbrush with some red paint on its mouth.

Course Highlights 💡

  • Complete Project: We’ll guide you from start to finish, step by step.

  • Grease Pencil: Achieve a hand-crafted that imitates real pencil drawing.

  • Animation: Create high-impact, looping visuals with only a few drawings.

  • Motion Tracking: Flexibility in our approach: we cover Blender + After Effects.

  • Advanced Techniques: Analyse extra methods through two Blender file downloads.

We'll go through each stage step by step and explain the theory behind each process so you'll be able not only to follow along the course, but to really understand each step to create your own unique Grease Pencil creation and integrate it in the real world however you want.

Colorful animated points and lines over a brick patio leading to a grassy yard with a house in the background.
A cartoon rabbit playing a blue guitar, wearing a blue scarf, with a cheerful expression against a light gray background.
Drawing of three apples, one sliced in half, with a leaf and stems, in red and blue colors.
A decorative frog figurine sitting on brick pavement playing a violin with green grass and a building in the background.
  • Part of a digital presentation slide showing text that says 'Section 2, Lesson 1, Modelling the Frog, Grease Pencil in the Real World,' beside a 3D model of a frog with a guitar, and a hand-drawn picture of a frog.
  • Digital art of a person with green camouflage clothing and a pinkish-brown greased pencil in their hand, leaning on their knee, with a backpack on their back, on a desk with drawing tools and paper. The screen shows a tutorial titled 'Lesson 2: Colouring with Grease Pencil,' with a color palette at the bottom.
  • Split image showing a presentation slide on the left titled 'Lesson 3 Animation' and a drawing of a frog holding a bone on the right, with animation timeline and editing tools visible.
  • Cover slide for a presentation titled 'Lesson 4: Motion Tracking in Blender' with the subtitle 'Grease Pencil in the Real World'. The right side shows a computer screen with a photo of a cobblestone sidewalk and overlaid motion tracking markers and tracking data from a video editing software.
  • Title slide for Lesson 5 on motion tracking, displaying a photo of a brick pathway with a patch of green grass and an overlay of motion tracking vectors and points on the pathway.
 

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