Blender Grease Pencil | Beginners Tutorial | Part 1 | Basics

Question 1

How do you get to the 2D animation splash screen?

Answer 1

Ctrl + N and then hit 2D animation `

Question 2

How to pan around the canvas

Answer 2

Hold shift + middle mouse button and drag

Question 3

What is onion skinning?

Answer 3

Happens in animation, you can see a transparent version of the previous frame behind the drawing of the current frame

Question 4

What is onion skinning useful for?

Answer 4

Animating motion

Question 5

How to disable onion skinning?

Answer 5

2 ways:

<ol>
<li>In the layers section under lines click the icon that looks like onion skinning to disable it</li>
<li>Turn the opacity down to zero in the onion skinning section</li></ol>