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Use the Grease Pencil tool

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Use the Grease Pencil tool

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- [Instructor] Another way to help you visualize your animations is to actually draw on the screen using the grease pencil tool. Now this tool is primarily designed for animation, but it can also be used in a number of different other places, such a modeling. So let's take a look at how to use this. So I have this animation here in place. And let's say I wanted to mark the position of this object on a certain frame. So I'm going to go ahead to, say, frame 22 here. And if we go into our view port menu here, you'll see that we have this little pen icon that says Grease Pencil. If I click on this, it brings up this nice, little menu. Now the grease pencil works on a frame-by-frame basis. So what we do is we create a frame, draw into that frame, and then when we move our timeline that frame dims out, and we can draw new ones. So, let's go ahead and add a frame. And when I do, notice there's a little bit of a tick on the timeline here. And now I can draw using a pencil, a marker, or a soft…

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