“From Comics to Animated Films: Bringing a Graphic Novel to Life—Solo!” by Dirk I. Tiede at Blender Conference 2025

Graphic novelist Dirk I. Tiede shares how he single-handedly adapted his comic series Paradigm Shift into an animated short film. He demonstrates the challenges of creating character rigs (including a fully transformable werewolf rig!), using comics as storyboards, recreating his illustrative style using EEVEE and Grease Pencil, and ultimately bringing it all together to bring the comic to life!