Bridging Grease Pencil and Geometry Nodes - 2.5D Illustration, Lighting… — Blender Conference 2025

"Bridging Grease Pencil and Geometry Nodes - 2.5D Illustration, Lighting, Animation and Compositing Workflows" by Michael Weigl at Blender Conference 2025

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.

Developed in the context of a diploma research project, the early-alpha toolset will include:
Lighting nodes that can relight meshes and grease pencil in real time
procedural stroke and fill generators that can run on live render passes
clipping and visual ordering solvers that can preserve 2D layers in complex 3D assemblies
directable level of detail blending for dynamic 2.5D asset creation
and many more useful nodes relevant to the workflow.

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