The background

Our next goal is to take a metropolitan skyline and movie theater, then boil it down to its simplest elements. We'll move the city and theater at different paces than the moviegoer, creating parallax. Big graphic shapes and a limited color palette will stylishly sell the scene.

The city skyline

We'll use a handful of lines, fills, and subtracted elements to capture all of the windows and buildings of our city skyline, then use modifiers to repeat and move it:

1. In the Properties window, go to the World tab and change World Color to a dark purple for our evening metropolitan sky. Switch your Viewport Shading to Rendered to see the color.
2. Create a new Grease Pencil object and name it Skyline. Delete the...