Check out the post over at BlendBlend which shows how to use the Blender Grease Pencil to create Abstract Shapes for Rendering in Cycles here. The free tutorial introduces the Grease Pencil as a stand alone application not requiring a knowledge of the Blender 3D. In all, this is a really simple way to get animated abstract shapes and forms quickly in Blender. Then by converting the grease pencil lines to paths, Dimitri extrudes the paths and ads the Solidify Modifier that provides a thickness and will also be used to create the animation for the Cycles render. BLENDER: Grease Pencil Tutorial by Jama Jurabaev in Tutorials 4. Using the Grease Pencil, Dimitri creates some simple lines in space right in the blender viewport which provides a quick way to experiment play with form. We’re using grease pencil to create an interesting object, animate it using the solidify offset and render it using cycles. I am sure it is a silly setting or something I unknowingly did, as newbies always do, if someone can give me tips to resolve this I will greatly appreciate it.Dimitri continues to develop interesting and creative techniques in Blender, and demonstrates how to use the Blender Grease Pencil tool to create the basics of an interesting shape, then animate that shape in Blender and render it with the Cycles Rendering Engine.

I tested with the hair grease pencil layer and bone as well, the same thing happens. I do this and then my fringe grease pencil layer disappears. I start with the fringe of the hair grease pencil layer for which there is a fringe bone and do the following (as per the tutorial): In Object Mode select the object (the character) and in the Properties panel go to the grease pencil tab group and in the Layers select the fringe layer, then in the Relations settings select the Armature as the Parent and the fringe bone. As per the tutorial I now have to parent the object's grease pencil layers to the bones. As per the tutorial I setup the armature and built all the bones. I have the character as an object consisting of several grease pencil layers. I am following a tutorial on how to rig and animate a 2D character.

Blender grease pencil tutorials