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HERO – Blender Grease Pencil Showcase

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Animation & visual effects

What it is

HERO is a short animated film made entirely in Blender to showcase the Grease Pencil 2D animation tools in Blender 2.8. It mixes hand-drawn 2D with a full 3D pipeline.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it as an impressive demo of Blender's open-source 2D/3D hybrid animation and as a comparison for other 2D animation tools.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “the demo the foundation commissioned was amazing. I love how seamlessly they mix the 3D in with the direct illustration.”

    Demo seamlessly mixing 3D with hand-drawn illustration

    microcolonel, 2019-08 · Strong recommendation · in “Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender”

  2. “At the end, it shows what working with it looks like.”

    Grease pencil showcase short film, with workflow shown at end

    avhon1, 2021-07 · Recommendation · in “Blender and the Rabbids”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: blender, grease pencil, animation, open source, short film

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