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Hero is a showcase for the upcoming Grease Pencil in Blender 2.8. Grease Pencil means 2D animation tools within a full 3D pipeline. In Blender. In Open Source. Free for everyone.

Hero is directed by Daniel Martinez Lara, and it is the 6th short film funded by the Blender Cloud.

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Presenting Hero - Blender Grease Pencil Showcase
Hero

Presenting Hero - Blender Grease Pencil Showcase

Today the Blender Cloud team is proud to present Hero! An open movie made with Grease Pencil in Blender.

16 Apr 2018
Free
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Teaser Trailer
Hero

Teaser Trailer

We are proud to present the trailer for Hero, the first Blender Open Movie ever created with Grease Pencil, made in Blender 2.8.

19 Mar 2018
Free
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Trailer announcement and updates
Hero

Trailer announcement and updates

A new announcement about Hero's composer, production update and a trailer release date!

14 Mar 2018
Free
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Play with the new version of Grease Pencil!
Hero

Play with the new version of Grease Pencil!

Check out the new and updated grease pencil with a load of helpful resources from the Blender Studio team.

23 Jan 2018
Free
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Hero

Backgrounds Explorations

Check out some of the visual exploration going on in Hero's backgrounds and see how the team handles the integration of 2D and 3D elements.

17 Jan 2018
Free
8
Hero a Grease Pencil dev update
Hero

Hero a Grease Pencil dev update

Check out the video's inside for the latest updates to Grease Pencil and the Open Movie: Hero!

12 Dec 2017
Free
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