Interesting. I posted a response on the Toonboom forum mentioning Grease Pencil and Blender's 2d animation capabilities, and they immediately removed the entire thread. I know a number of animation studios have been adopting Blender for 2d animation work, so it makes sense.

I am intrigued by of the 2D work I see being done with Blender. I wish I had time to explore it myself. Version 2.83 is going to be a major update for 2D animation in Blender. The current version still has some issues with anti-aliasing, for example, and these are resolved in the refactor of Grease...

Another interesting video:
https://www.blendernation.com/2020/02/2 ... nt=item-10

A file download is available to test the Gravity Falls face rig.

After watching the wonderful Klaus last Christmas, I am certain 2d (style) animation is going to be just fine.

That Toy Story 4 won the Oscar instead of Klaus is a farce. Disney has a stranglehold on the industry, that's for sure.

To me, tvpaint is among the superior 2d animation tools but with more and more features added to GP tools that 1st place does not seem so secure :) As a TVP user who has been trying to use the latest Grease Pencil, I can say with confidence that there is still a long way to go before Blender gets t...

Blender 2.81 is released today. Complete overhaul of the sculpting workflow, and new Grease Pencil features: * new brushes and presets * self overlap strokes * isometric guides * improved stroke ending * smart smooth with fast strokes * convert curves to Gpencil strokes (import svg, convert, etc.) *...

Wow.

Game changer! Blender 2.82 will import and convert SVG files cleanly to grease pencil layers, ready for 2d animation, cut-out rigging, and more. Check out the preview video:

I second Krita for digital painting and drawing. As for image compositing, I favour PhotoLine. I also have a license of Affinity Photo, but only use that for HDR and focus stacking. Affinity Photo is okay for general comp and image editing work, in my opinion. PhotoLine is much more flexible and out...

New time offset modifier in action.

More GP goodness. VR drawing!

I have extensive experience with Photoshop and stopped using Photoshop a couple of years ago in favour of PhotoLine. I also have a license of Affinity Photo. In short: for me personally Affinity Photo has too many smaller and larger workflow quirks and missing features at this point. The GUI, while ...

OpenToonz v1.3 has just been released. Get it here for free: https://opentoonz.github.io/e/ A huge list of bug fixes and improvements across the board. The GUI has been improved further, and even a touch screen gesture mode was added. MyPaint bitmap brushes now work on Toonz Raster levels ("layers")...

Urghh. These type of threads attract spammers like flies are attracted to a turd.

Hi: I just watched mulan 2 and was impressed to see at the end credits that the movie was made using toon boom. Mulan 2 is drawn frame by frame. Probably scanned in, cleaned up, and coloured in what was Toon Boom back in 2004. It's called a paper-based workflow. The software was used to speed up th...