/ Grease Pencil Add-ons for Animation (Blender)

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Les Fées Spéciales.

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Here you can find some interesting add ons developed at this french Animation Studio Les Fées Spéciales.
I notice them watching Amélie presentation at the Blender Conference 2022.

You can find the sources here:

• tech blog from La Cuisine

• Les Fees Speciales Repo

This is a list of some of the most interesting add ons an a quick review. Will keep updating while testing them.

• A color palette for quick pick up materials

• A multiplane cam creator (2d GP layers)

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SPA Studios' 2D Animation Toolset

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Another strong recommendation is the Spa Animation Studios blender extension, which is an optimized fork for drawing in a more natural way, plus some extra additions for storyboarding.

Blender SPA Documentation: https://the-spa-studios.github.io/ble...
SPA Github: https://github.com/The-SPA-Studios

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How to animate on TWOS

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Last ones is a tip from Cloud Blender about how to animate in TWOS.
The easy way is showed in this video, just adding an Stepped Modifier to your curves.

/ VFX Good Night Reading (Pipeline) and More

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Here is an amazing link for TD and Pipeline Artists, a compilated archive full of sources about free software and articles.

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If you are interested in development for CG and VFX take a long view.

vfx_good_night_reading

And here, a complete list of Open Source for Pipeline.

Pipeline:

• Prism-pipeline: https://prism-pipeline.com/​

Project Manager:

• Kitsu / CGWire: https://www.cg-wire.com/​

Render Farm:

• Afanasy: https://cgru.info/​
• OpenCue: https://www.opencue.io/​
• Crowdrender: https://www.crowd-render.com/​
• Polargrid: https://polargrid.space/

The VFX Reference Platform is a set of tool and library versions to be used as a common target platform for building software for the VFX industry.

vfxplatform calendar

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