The Placement View allows you to create annotations that will be positioned orthogonally to the view, all on the same plane. Sometimes you feel the need to write annotations on the entire page, as if it were a sheet of paper, sometimes directly on the object, for this Blender provides the ' Placement' option (which you can also find in the panel on the right in the 'Tool' tab)

The eraser function will be used to cancel and correct what is written.Īfter using the Grease Pencil for the first time, in the panel with the properties of the ' Tool' on the right, which can be recalled by pressing the N key, by clicking on 'Note' a drop-down menu will appear to manage the layers, color and thickness of the pen stroke.

The polygon tool, to more easily create figures or polylines.

The line tool, also useful for tracking reference lines.

The simple annotation, which allows you to draw or write freehand texts,.

In the instrument panel on the left, which can be recalled by pressing the T key, you can select some basic tools, including the ' Annotate' tool

The Grease Pencil as a tool for creating annotations: We therefore try to describe the main tools available.

In Blender 2.8, in the current release, the Grease Pencil tool has been divided into two parts, from a logical point of view, a simpler one for making annotations only and a more 'rich' one that allows you to create real cartoons. The Grease Pencil at the beginning was only a tool to draw small notes in the 3D View, to provide explanations about the project that was being realized, but later it was enriched with new features, concerning both the drawing and the animation, which transformed it in a real 2D drawing tool within a 3D modeling software. In this tutorial for Blender 2.8 in english we will see how this tool has changed in the passage of Blender from version 2.79 to 2.8.

Blender 2.79 grease pencil animation