Import or Export Blue Pencil Frames

For information on retiming, duplicating, moving, or selecting Blue Pencil frames, see Work with Blue Pencil frames.

Note: If you reference Blue Pencil drawings into another scene using File Referencing, they do not appear. They are meant to be added to the final scene.

Import Blue Pencil frames

Click the Import Blue Pencil frames icon () on the Blue Pencil Toolbar to open the .zip archive file and add the frames to the current scene.

Export Blue Pencil frames

Click the Export Blue Pencil frames icon () on the Blue Pencil Toolbar to save the selected frames as a .zip archive file.

Import Grease Pencil frames into Blue Pencil

You can import Grease Pencil frames from earlier versions of Maya into Blue Pencil with the Import Blue Pencil frames icon () on the Blue Pencil Toolbar. The Grease Pencil frames must be saved in a .zip archive. Grease Pencil drawings are imported in a new layer (see Manage Blue Pencil Layers).

Export Grease Pencil frames from an earlier version of Maya:

1. Open the Grease Pencil tools in a version of Maya earlier than 2023.
2. In the Grease Pencil tool (View > Camera Tools > Grease Pencil Tool), click . A file browser opens
3. In the Export file browser window, enter a file name for your Grease Pencil frame archive, and click Export.

   All the Grease Pencil frames from the active camera are saved as a .zip archive. For how to switch active camera layers, see Manage Blue Pencil layers.