The price tag simply helps support Blender, and entitles you to customer support. While this product normally retails for around $85 USD, this product is technically open-source, which means it can be legally purchased, totally free. I’ll include a few tutorials in the list below.

This is a product I recommend to EVERYONE. In fact, Retopoflow makes it almost too easy. There is an incredibly powerful addon for Blender called Retopoflow that assists with optimizing your mesh.

By simplifying the topology of the object, you’re freeing up a ton of memory space and performance for the game engine. After you’ve sculpted your high-poly mesh, you’ll need to optimize your mesh so it can be used in a game and not take up too much memory.

Interpolate, which averages out two keyframes in order to create a third, intermediary keyframe this new breakdown keyframe will include additional, supporting geometry for a finer sense of control over your 2D animation.One of the foundational skills of any 3D artist is being skilled in the sometimes frustrating art of retopology.

Box and Circle, for simple quadrilaterals and circles.

Curve, for a more traditional Bézier experience.

Polyline, where you can create compound vector paths with sharp corners.

Eyedropper, used to pull references for a material that you would like to create.

Cutter, used to target points between intersecting strokes.

Tint, used to paint onto strokes in order to change their base color.

Erase, used to erase strokes that you've already drawn.

You can also bend these 2D strokes to your will in 3D space through Edit Mode, which can be a lot of fun.Īs for the rest of the Draw Mode tools to your right, many are self-explanatory: This simple Grease Pencil tutorial can be used to lay the foundation for 2D animation or even just conceptual art and planning.

Blender 2d tutorials