Shift and Trace for Grease pencil.
Shift and trace is a very useful techinique that helps speed up the production of inbetweens and breakdowns. It's done by aligning two keys and tracing on the middle of the lines. It would be awesome if blender had the possibity to rotate, move and control the opacity of the onion skinning images.
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I just wrapped up making it. You can get it on gumroad, search shift and trace
The addon will always be free because its something that essential and will always be needed.
hi, thank you so much for making this addon, I have downloaded it and tried to use it in 4.4.3 and I am experiencing issues... is there anywhere I may better contact you about this?
I'm sorry to hear you're having issues. Unfortunately my laptop broke and I won't be able to replace it for a while. So it's goes without saying that further development of the addon is not possible at the moment. I'll likely need to recreate it from scratch.
There is a Blender fork used in the SPA studios which has Shift & Trace! github.com/The-SPA-Studios And this talk explains a bunch of other toold for 2d they developed: youtube.com/watch
please add the shift and trace/Light table feature. I use grease pencil in a traditional animation sense and saying the ability for shift and trace is a need is an understatement ,grease pencil was remade in 2.8x with 2d animation in mind. And as such we need 2d animation targeted features. Onion skin is alright for simulation and effects, lightables are essential for actual Character animation. I really hope this gets added. its one of 3 reasons I'm not fully on the GP train yet.But I'm getting there.
Every now and then I google this feature if it's added yet or if anyone has figured out an intuitive workaround for this because it's very useful and has become essential for my frame-by-frame workflow in opentoonz.
Just chiming in here to echo everyone else. Please add this functionality. :)
Blender only lacks this tool to be second to none ...
until then I will have to continue using TVPaint ...
Please, put this tool on, Blender Foundation!
literally the only reason I'm using TVpaint right now, this needs more attention!
Please make this happen. I do a lot of hand drawn animation and this is a must have feature
Awesome indeed