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Thank you, John! I'm planning out my year and want to explore brushes again. I'm leaning to making brushes work with Blender 4.3 as well as some good Texture Painting Brushes to quickly get style into your scenes. Keep you posted!

Glad you find it helpful!

Thank you, Paul!

Thank you! 5 years professionally now

You can currently use the fill tool in Blender and set it to 'Negative' fill and click outside your character drawing and it will auto matte the character for you. This is really handy and also works with multiple keyframes using the multi-frame setting. The only thing to remember is that it auto mattes in the orientation of the camera, so if your camera is moving then you need to go through each keyframe manually to make sure the matte is oriented correctly to the camera. There is a feature request to matte multiple keyframes automatically by having the timeline update to each instance of a keyframe to correctly apply multiple mattes. Hope this helps!

@@maurits_valk amagaaa, this is awesome!! thaanks so mucho!! took some time to find the little "-" sign next to the "+" sign next to precision.

@@kobiianardo glad it worked! Yeah, it's not totally clear in Blender that the fill tool can work like that but we do have it!

Gumroad has suggested donations amounts. The brush pack is free, you can enter 0 for the amount.

Hi, yes. I've updated the verbiage on Gumroad that states the add-on does not work in Blender 4.3. I need to update the add-on since Grease Pencil has been rewritten. Cheers

@@maurits_valk when might we see an update? Thanks!

@@allisonwestbrook4171 I will do my best over the holiday break to try and update Whippet GP to be compatible with GP3! Thank you for the continued interest and support :)

@@maurits_valk Happy New Year! Any update on Whippet?

@@allisonwestbrook4171 Happy New Year! I'm literally exporting a demo video right now! Ill send out a gumroad update soon

hahaha thank you, Paul!

Hey! It's hard to troubleshoot without visuals but perhaps you are too close to the greasepencil object either in the view port or when looking through a camera. You want to make sure the GP object and the place you are drawing in relation to the origin is far enough away from view (try 3-5 meters). The other thing to check is the Stroke Thickness under grease pencil properties, depending if you have world space or screen space will effect how the strokes are rendered in terms of size. This all pertains to Blender 4.2 and under. These brushes do not work in 4.3 with the new Grease Pencil 3

Thank you!

@@maurits_valk no problem :)

Hey! Thank you so much! That's exciting to hear you're making your own short in Blender. It's a great tool to use but yeah lots of tools to get carried away with haha

@@maurits_valk yes, way too many tools.... can get lost easily in there :)

Thank you!

Thank you!

That’s a great video idea will keep that in mind! I got my job at lucasfilm at 31, granted I had be doing storyboard work for a few years prior to this role but I don’t think age Number of opportunities is really what matters. And your location and skill level might affect that. This is not to say it’s not worth learning storyboarding bc if you ever want to make your own film then learning to tell a story through boards is really helpful. If our industry heads towards independent creators using AI tools (not generative stuff - this is another topic) then having a strong storytelling skill set will be critical to that future career.

@@maurits_valk thanks Maurits!

Thanks, Raj! And thanks for dropping by the stream

Thank you for checking out the video and I’m glad you find it helpful! The app is Leonardo and it’s amazing for just drawing and getting ideas down Getleonardo.com

@@maurits_valkexcellent thanks for getting back to me. I work as a storyboard artist and comic artist for marvel and dc and love seeing your work. Trying to get into blender grease pencil boards at the moment in between projects. Thanks once again best neil

@@TheHulk1934 that’s awesome Neil! Very cool to hear you are also learning blender. I hope to do more tutorials on boarding in Blender as well. I think it’s growing in an interest and GP3 should be great for future productions.

I’m glad you found it helpful!

Hey there! It's hard to help guide you to a solution without seeing what's happening exactly but make sure you do not have a simplify value active in your brush settings. You might have to increase the image size of your texture. IF you're too close to the stroke then you also be able to see the gaps so you want to be far enough away from the stroke so that the individual dots appear to be close together. the last option is to try a material of stroke type 'line' this way it's one line with an image texturing that line versus dots. Hope this helps!

Thank you!

Hi @emirh, thank you for kind words and checking out my work! In regards to animating, having a good foundation on the principles of animation and being able to draw characters with good gestures and performances that convey their characters is definitely an important factor in being a successful storyboard artist. If you want to work in Animation series and movies then being able to draw more keyframes to give the illusion a character is animated/moving will go a long way. It's more time consuming but it will set you apart from other artists if you do it well. In Live Action projects, you do not need to animate your boards because the actors can interpret a single pose in a storyboard for what they need to do. I personally have never taken an animation class, but I recommend starting off with very simple gesture drawings of characters moving. Use big shapes or stick figures to convey before cleaning up any drawings. If you have trouble drawing for your head, then record yourself doing something and take the key poses from that performance. Hope this helps!

@@maurits_valk hi Maurits thanks for taking the time to give me your answer I really appreciate it and I'll take it into consideration, I wish you a great day and I am looking forward to see you here more often :D

I'm happy you liked the video and found it valuable! I've been using a test version of Storyliner which had all the features but I would recommend the Storyboard version unless you want to strictly use it for 3D previs.

Hey Armin! Glad you liked the video and thank you for watching! I mean the former. So make a full storyboard sequence that is edited, drawings are timed out, some voice acting (you won't be deducted points for this, just do your best), and add some basic sfx and music. It really helps go a long way and shows you are willing to learn all aspects of the process!

@@maurits_valkawesome that’s good to know, I just made one very recently! thanks for the response!!

Thank you! I'm stoked you found it helpful. I plan to make more videos similar to this and cover my whole art journey. Cheers!

Hi Jamie! I think that is because in my Whippet GP add-on I changed the brush menu row/column count so I apologize if that wasn't clear. The standard brush menu is set to 3x8 however you can actually change that. If you open a text window for python scripting, right click on the brush menu and go to 'edit source' you can find the values for the rows and columns that are linked to the draw menu size. Enter in different values and then press the 'run/play' button at the top of the text window to get an updated menu.

Thanks @@maurits_valk, got it... thats pretty old-skool vs a simple click and expand.

I noticed as well that my drawing still sucks with these brushes. Am I not clicking on something since yours seem much better 😀 Keep up the great work!

@@jamiebeard yeah unfortunately Blender doesnt have the expand feature which is why I changed it in my addon

Hi@@jamiebeard, are you in Textured or Rendered view? The brushes appear best when you are in one of those two view. Feel free to send a screenshot via instagram if you're still having trouble!

It was a long journey for me but you just got to stick with it. I'm glad you liked the video!

@@maurits_valk I feel I’m on a similar long and winding road. But I’ll try to keep going with it. Thanks for the advice! 🙂👍

@@senior_sakuga I'll make another video on my entire 'art' journey. it's a bit of lengthy one

@@maurits_valk looking forward to it! ❤️

Thank you, Francesco! Regarding your questions, for coming up with stories that's just a matter of day dreaming. To come up with how to actually tell the story with shot designs and tone, that would require a lengthy explanation but for starters it's worth studying scenes from movies that reflect your scene's story and tone. I think everything that is on my website on the personal page was included in the portfolio: www.mauritsvalk.com/personal I want to make a separate video that explains the entire journey of getting this job because there's a lot to it but I applied a year earlier and they saw how much I progressed over a year which helped a lot. This was not my first job. I was working in advertising as a Storyboard Artist for a few years and did a little animation work too.

Thank you so much! I’m glad you found value in it!

Thank you for watching!

haha right on! I appreciate the sub and glad I finally got this video out. Thank you for watching :D

Thank you, Jordan! I appreciate you checking out the video :D

thank you so much, Carl! Im stoked you found it helpful and I really appreciate the feedback. I definitely want to make more videos that cover various topics and techniques in detail. Stay tuned :D

haha thank you so much! 🙏🍻

Thank you, Jason! I'm glad it's helpful :D

thank you, Mathias!

absolutely! It's definitely a game changer for boarding in Blender 🙌🙌