Written instruction is accompanied by diagram illustrations in reference to the program's Graphical User Interface The first comprehensive beginner's guide to the Grease Pencil component of Blenderįacets of operation are explained in short concise chapters with cross references Blender is a free open-source 3D Computer Graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, motion graphics, interactive 3D applications, virtual reality and computer games. Grease Pencil is a component of the 3D modeling and animation program, Blender. It is assumed that the reader has no previous knowledge of the Blender program and treats 2D Animation using the Grease Pencil as a standalone application. And if anybody would like to help me create such animations, I would happy to share the credit when they are placed on YouTube.This book describes how to access the Grease Pencil component in Blender and create 2D Animation within the Blender 3D environment. I will be able to spend about a month or so learning and using the Blender and its Python API before the conference at which I want to display these animations, but before I start, I want to know if that is something that is realistically doable for a newbie in that time frame. I want to do these things to represent various synchronized activations of neural sub-networks. Out of such lines under python control, andĬreate, place, and change the coloring and z-level of some moreĬomplicated lines, such as ones having one or more bends in them.

Before I spend the much larger amount of time necessary to learn both Blender and its Python API, I would like to know if, and how, it is possible to use Blender-Python to:Ĭreate thousands of lines under program control, in the form of long thin parallelograms, and place the two parallel narrow edges of each such line on selected locations on a selected pair of parallel lines in the image,Ĭhange the color and z-level of nets of connectioned lines formed I have spent hours studying the Python-Blender API, and as of yet it is not clear how to do what I want to do. I want to use Blender and Python to create simplified 2D animations of theories on how the computation of the human brain create consciousness.

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