Blender is a powerful and free software for creating 3D and 2D animations. One of its features is the grease pencil tool, which allows you to draw and animate directly in the 3D viewport.

In the case of Blender’s tool, the production can now be rooted in actual 2d drawing techniques, while still taking full advantage of the technical possibilities of cg animation.

The Grease Pencil provides 2d animation tools within Blender’s free and open-source full-3d pipeline. For a clearer idea of what this means, take a look at the end credits of Hero which shows in ...