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How did they come up with the name "Grease pencil"? It's not descriptive at all.
by Stevvo 7y ago
How did they come up with the name "Grease pencil"? It's not descriptive at all.
- microcolonel 7y agoIt's from before, when it was a tool for marking up the scene, not an artistic tool. It's retained the name since then.
- hbosch 7y agoHistorically, you'd mark up a drawing or schematic with a grease pencil (1) on top of a velum sheet or similar. The original implementation of grease pencil in Blender was similar -- it was for non-permanent markup on top of your scene. This gradually evolved into what, in Blender 2.8, is a full on drawing tool that can be used in part to create (with Blender's other tools) entire 2-D animated features. I agree they should change the name soon. :) 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_pencil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_pencil