Hi,

I am Mumu. Welcome to my Blender 4.0 class for 2D artists and animators. We will get familiar with the software and use Grease Pencil (Blender’s digital drawing and 2D animation tool) to create a cool looping animated piece of art.

There are several reasons to learn Blender: It’s free, it’s Open Source, it’s powerful, flexible and has a great supportive community. You can use Blender to do 2D art, 3D art or a mix of both, and you can even do compositing and video editing inside Blender!

Blender team celebrating its 30th birthday

I started using Blender a few years ago for personal animated projects, and found myself studying Grease Pencil deeply and even came up with my own unique ways to do things. To give back to the community, I started making tutorials and tips videos on my YouTube channel, and eventually full-fledged courses.

This class is for newbies who never used Blender or users who have some experience with Grease Pencil and want to learn a few tips and tricks that I spent months figuring out.

We will start by downloading and setting up Blender, learn basic navigation, then start working on a simple animated project to get comfortable with drawing, coloring, editing, animating and more, then finish by adding sound, and render our animation as a video.

All you need? Your computer, and Internet. A graphics tablet is a bonus, though I myself will only be using the mouse.

Sebastian Musarra

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