Although multi-material additive manufacturing (AM) recently has gained a lot of attention, it is still not commercially available for electron beam powder bed fusion (E-PBF). The controlled vacuum environment and fast beam deflection rates in E-PBF allows for steering the melting in each manufactured point. However, very few attempts have been made to create multi-materials by E-PBF. This study investigates the feasibility of using a small sized gravity-fed hopper setup to create multi-material components. The proposed approach includes loading two hoppers with dissimilar metal feedstock and controlling the fetching of specific powders layer-by-layer. The aim of this work is to investigate if this approach can be used to generate direct or gradient shifts that allows to create lamellas of different chemical compositions within one continuous build process. In doing so, samples with 316L to Ti6Al4V and 316L to V4E gradients were manufactured in different lamellar fashions. Microscopy, micro hardness and energy dispersive X-ray were implemented to evaluate the results. The analysis showed a high degree of blending of the two precursor powders during the build process which affected the final material properties. Further refinement of the method is needed, especially when it comes to powder dispensing and control during the build process.