"Bridging Grease Pencil and Geometry Nodes - 2.5D Illustration, Lighting, Animation and Compositing Workflows" by Michael Weigl at Blender Conference 2025<br /><br />This talk explores a research project and the resulting node-based toolset (targeted release of prototype mid 2026) designed to fully leverage the emerging Geometry-Node*Grease-Pencil bridge to create sophisticated 2.5D animation styles in an artist-centric rendering framework. <br /> <br />Developed in the context of a diploma research project, the early-alpha toolset will include: <br />- Lighting nodes that can relight meshes and grease pencil in real time <br />- procedural stroke and fill generators that can run on live render passes <br />- clipping and visual ordering solvers that can preserve 2D layers in complex 3D assemblies <br />- directable level of detail blending for dynamic 2.5D asset creation <br />- and many more useful nodes relevant to the workflow.<br /><br />–<br /><br />Learn more about Blender Conference 2025 at <a href="https://conference.blender.org/2025/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://conference.blender.org/2025/</a><br /><br />#b3d #BCON25<br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Nh3D6tIlA" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Nh3D6tIlA</a>