Whippet GP - Draw Faster

UPDATE Jan 1st, 2025: Whippet GP comes in two versions. Whippet GP 3.0 works for Blender 4.3 and up to be compatible with Grease Pencil 3.0.

After purchasing the product be sure to download the correct version depending which version you are using for Blender.

Whippet GP is an add-on for Blender specifically designed to help speed up your storyboard drawings. Custom operators help add news keyframes, more commonly known as 'panels', to your timeline. Along with the operators, Whippet GP provides three critical Grease Pencil menus that live in three different locations natively in Blender. The Grease pencil layers, brush selection and material list are all displayed while the add-on is open.

Installation & Demo Tutorial video

Features:

1. Add, Duplicate, Multiple & Clear
   • Inspired by Storyboard Pro, you can map the operators to keyboard shortcuts to save you time. Add a new drawing by however many frames you want to move it forward in the timeline. Duplicate, add multiple frames at one time and clear all the layers while staying in Draw mode!
2. Grease Pencil Layers
   • The same menu from the data properties window but conveniently placed in a side panel layout so you don't have to keep switching between menus. This also gives you the ability to quickly setup your GP objects and lock the layers you want to.
3. Brush Menu
   • The traditional Grease Pencil brush menu but slightly modify so you can see more brushes at once so you don't need to scroll down.
4. Materials
   • A list of all your Grease Pencil materials. Save frequently used materials to your start up file to see them listed here. To create new ones you will need to go to the native Blender menu. This is just for selecting previously made materials.

Please Note:

This add-on works for Blender 4.0. It is designed to work for one Grease Pencil object at a time. Future ideas include being able to choose whether to shift all objects or multiple selected objects. Auto-matte multiple selected GP Keyframes at once so that it iterates through the timeline in order to get the correct fill in view to camera. Adding a quick Blur FX for Depth of Field to camera.

How to Install:

1. Download
2. In Blender, go to Edit > Preferences > Add-Ons
3. Install
4. Select the Whippet GP zip file
5. Go draw!

Documentation:

https://www.mauritsvalk.com/whippetgp

Known Issues:

• Currently the 'Add Multiple GP Keyframes' Operator shifts all keyframes when the 'Shift Future Frames' is not active and there are not enough frames between the next keyframe and the current frame to add the number of frames you want. A future update will try to insert the number of GP frames so that it adds the frames in the timeline that it can before shifting future frames. For now, please avoid adding multiple frames in front of future GP frames so you don't affect the future frames' timing.