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  • Published 7 Jun 2020

Grease Pencil: Auto Inbetween tools and Time Chart

The grease Pencil is without a doubt an incredible tool! I have noticed in some other animation software that have the feature of auto inbetween a feature in addition to interpolating each line, it is also possible to create a curve for the path, greatly improving the transition and avoiding distortions. Here is an example of this feature that I would love to have in Blender.

cgl.ethz.ch/publications/papers/paperWhi10.php

Another feature that I would like to have in Blender and that is formidable, simple and intuitive is the time chart that exists in the program “TweenMaker”, in the program it is called “Tween Spacing”.

youtube.com/watch

TweenMaker as well as CACANI have another feature that allows us to plot a curve for autoinbetween.

And last but not least is the “Shift and Trace” Resource.

Examples of this feature in other software:

Toon Boom Harmony : youtube.com/watch

Opentoonz: youtube.com/watch

TVPaint: youtu.be/a4AE97QdykI

CACANI: youtube.com/watch

Enables the Shift and Trace tool, with which you can temporarily offset, rotate and scale drawings.

The transformations done on drawings with the Shift and Trace tool are only meant to allow you to trace these drawings, and can be undone at any time to reset the drawings back to their intended position.

Is it possible to implement tools like this to grease Pencil?

What do you think?

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gavlor
7 Jun 2020

2 Comments

MrAdamEarle

Thinking about the shift and trace blender could probably do by creating a new layer and temporarily storing the information there.

guzuligo

I wish it is added as a modifier, with the ability to specify:

  • Which layer, material or vertex group it affects.
  • Frame range it could affect.
  • Interpolation type, including custom type.
  • Frame skips. So when you stack it, the next inbetweener can fill the gaps with different interpolation types.

That would be PERFECT!