{"id":2936,"date":"2011-08-06T01:39:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T09:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2011-08-06T01:39:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T09:39:48","slug":"blender-grease-pencil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/06\/blender-grease-pencil\/","title":{"rendered":"Blender Grease pencil"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Even if you are a regular Maya, 3dsmax or XSI user, I think you should check out the following videos as I am sure you will be able to find a use for Blender<\/a> pretty fancy tools.<\/p>\n

The first one I want to demonstrate today is the Grease Pencil<\/strong>, a nice feature that allows you to draw on the 3d viewport and write notes but also make quick thumbnails animation! Sorry for the low framerate, I realised it too late but will record an other animation example very soon.<\/p>\n

As you will quickly realise, I don’t have much experience with Blender but I keep wanting to discover more, remember Blender is a free software and the developers keep updating it to make it more user friendly. Version 2.5 has integrated a lot of improvements and the software will get better and better from that point.<\/p>\n

Towards the end of the first video I am getting a bit lost trying to find how to enable the Audio Scrubbing<\/strong> so feel free to jump to the second add-on video so I can avoid embarrassment \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n

[vimeo]http:\/\/vimeo.com\/27356629[\/vimeo]<\/p>\n

[vimeo]http:\/\/vimeo.com\/27358427[\/vimeo]<\/p>\n

To Blender experts reading this, how would you go about exporting the grease pencil notes\/sketches to a video<\/strong> or even just an image sequence automatically?<\/p>\n

So far I have two techniques that are not very user friendly but at least they work and will generate an image sequence which you can import into any 3d or editing software:<\/p>\n

1. use a software like IrfanView to take a screenshot automatically every second and manually jump from frame to frame
\nQuickscreenshots might be an other simple alternative with an incremental saving hotkey CTRL + ALT + w http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/quickscreenshots\/<\/a><\/p>\n

2. use the Blender Screendump function. Press CTRL + F3, press the + key to increment the file name and press Enter to Save.<\/p>\n

[update thanks to <\/strong>Ljoel<\/a>] <\/strong>Forget about all that exporting nonsense above, the solution is to use the OpenGLviewport capture<\/strong> \ud83d\ude09 Here is where you will find it
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