Create 2D Anime Rain effects using Grease Pencil in Blender

Mathias Zamecki writes:

Hey Art friend!

I guess if you clicked on this video, you want to learn how to make #anime rain effect.
A good thing about #greasepencil is that you can use them in 3d space so I was reusing this animation in many shots of my Batman animatic. And now you can do that too and have it forever. I tried my best to make this beginner-friendly tutorial, but you need some basic navigation knowledge in Blender.

Contents of this video:

0:00 – Intro
0:27 – Prep
1:04 – Raindrops “drawing”
1:27 – Opacity
1:47 – Thickness
1:55 – Why are we doing it that way
2:16 – Materials
2:38 – Adding blur
3:11 – Animation modifiers
3:51 – Array, hight
4:22 – Array depth
4:47 – Glow effect
4:59 – Adjusting outputs that suit your needs

You can download the file here.