Grease Pencil 2D/3D - "Azuki"

This was an experimental short animation I made using Blender's amazing Grease Pencil tools.
Coming into this, I really wanted to focus on the refined line, texture overlays, and integrate bits of a 3D pipeline with the 2D Grease Pencil objects and aesthetic - the hair is an armature-modified 3D mesh object, and everything else is a GP layer, drawn by hand. 🖋
My goal was to create some really cool 3D dimensionality but still keep the vibes of the flat, clean, urban look and animation style of the anime-inspired characters.

Original work inspired by the Azuki & Beanz anime IP (https://www.azuki.com/).