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Table of Contents

Installation & Settings

Workspace & Navigation

Blender 5.0 Story Tools

Workflows

Getting Started

Grease Pencil Tools

Camera Tools

Custom Operators

Playblast & Export Tools

Template Page

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🔗 External Links

Whippet Features

Whippet Versions

Purchase Whippet

License & Terms of Service

Download Blender

Blender Manual

Learn Grease Pencil

Superhive Market

CG Cookie

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Workspace and Navigation

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Setup for Blender 5.0+

Whippet uses the default Storyboarding Workspace with Blender 5.0. Ensure there is a ‘Storyboarding’ workspace and a ‘Video Editing’ workspace.

1. To setup the Storyboarding Workspace, simply go to File > New > Storyboarding or when you launch Blender, you can select Storyboarding from the startup prompt. Do not change the names of these workspaces, doing so will break some Whippet operators.
2. Ensure your Edit Scene is pinned to the Video Editing Workspace. This keep the Edit scene on the workspace when you switch to it.

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Ensure you have the two workspaces

Pin your Edit scenes to the Video Editing Workspaces

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Setup for Blender 4.5

In order for Whippet to function properly across multiple scenes and to import playblasts directly into the a designated Video Sequence Editor (VSE), you must ensure that each scene name is given a 3 letter abbreviation. It can be alphanumeric and is not case sensitive (i.e. AAA, abc, 2D1, etc). Each Scene must be pinned to a Workspace and the Workspace tab name should match the Scene name. This gives Whippet the ability to jump between different Scenes and VSE seamlessly.

Scene Names match Workspaces and are pinned to Workspaces. Toggle the Pin icon to pin a workspace to a scene.

Please see the original guide using Whippet with Blender 4.5 below:

Blender Storyboarding Add-on - Whippet 1.0 Full Demo

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Whippet Panel Locations

Whippet contains menus in a few places to help you access tools on the fly. Click on the different tabs below to see where you can access Whippet tools.

Storyboarding Workspace

The Storyboarding Workspace has a few locations where Whippet panels are accessible. Inside the 3D Viewport N-panel, the Dopesheet N-Panel and a Custom Collection system to help keep things organized. The Dopesheet and the Sequencer header also comes with custom buttons and the basic Timeline button to help eliminate the need for the Timeline or Dopesheet footer.

The Dopesheet N-panel menu has quick access to the Camera List and Whippet GP Keyframe Tools.

Video Editing Workspace

Along with the Sequencer Header Buttons, there is an N-Panel menu in the Sequencer that contains VSE tools and export features. Inside the Video Editing workspace, press ‘N’ to open the panel.

Grease Pencil Pop-up

While in Draw mode with Grease Pencil, you can access all the Grease Pencil and Whippet related tools on the fly. Press Right+Click on your tablet pen (if you’ve installed the Maurits Valk Keymap) to open up the custom Whippet pop-up menu. Here you’ll have access to all the Grease Pencil layer and material settings along with brush, overlay and keyframe timing settings.

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Dopesheet Header Buttons

From Left to Right:

Dopesheet Modes

• Dopesheet
• Action Editor
• Grease Pencil
• Curve Editor
• Jump to Sequencer in Video Editing Scene - playhead will move to first frame of the active camera’s respective video strip

Dopesheet View

• Frame on Render Range
• Frame on Current Frame
• Camera Strips - enable visibility of camera bars in the Dopesheet

Scene Strip Tools

• Convert Active Camera to Scene Strip
• Convert All Cameras to Scene Strips

Keyframe Tools

• Add Gap Frames
• Move Keyframes and Cameras - select your keyframes you want to move, then toggle on the mode, move your keyframes, turn off the mode and any overlapping cameras (that were enabled) will jump to where you placed the keyframes. Button turns red when active.
• Auto Keying

Grease Pencil Keyframe Flipping

• Jump to Prev Keyframe
• Keyframe Flipping - GP Layers Only
• Keyframe Flipping - Active Layer </aside>

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