This article is about how to create animation with Pencil2D. “I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand” - ConfuciusĬan find more on my Instagram (artsy stuff) and Twitter (CS stuff).Linkedin Pencil2D is an open source animation software that lets users create 2D animations and sketches. The results of these techniques speak for themselves. Software/Digital Agents and Emergent Behaviorįinally, I highly suggest diving into machine learning and related generative models.Obligatory starting topics to explore (some highly correlated):

“Don’t do what a camera can do, do what it can’t do”.

reinterpret: visualize properties, objects and actions in alternative ways.

design and experiment with composable hierarchies of reusable atomic methods and objects.

decompose reality and others’ works and try to reproduce.

biology, architecture, psychology, physics)

take inspiration from other domains (e.g.

explore and combine multiple mathematical functions and models.I wanted instead to finish with suggestions around Generative Art, starting with some fundamental recipes and effective creative routines: Aim at hybrids, for example mixing 3D and 2D, or “ artistic data visualization”. Regarding Grease-Pencil there is not much to say, if not to get creative and come up with your own useful/creative use-case, leveraging of course Blender great potential. In this entry we covered the basics of Grease-Pencil scripting, with focus on generative art for examples and directions. In Blender, you can work with code from the Python Console Editor (be sure to make good use of the Autocomplete function)

Can also find the complete code here (and Blender utils here). I took inspiration from other resources on generative art, in particular the book Generative Art by Matt Pearson and the Kadenze online course Generative Art and Computational Creativity. Generative art is a captivating way to showcase the tool potential: if you love Python and don’t feel like learning Processing, or are still unsure about venturing with p5.js or Three.js, here you will find the perfect playground. Also because Blender is a very rich ecosystem, and Grease-Pencil in version 2.8 is a powerful and versatile tool. Less talking, more code (commented) and many examples. What: learning the basics of scripting for Blender Grease-Pencil tool, with focus on generative art as a concrete playground. Quick, Draw! - Flock - Conway’s Game of Life

Pencil animation tutorial