Editable motion trail
The animators try to keep the motion path of bones in a curvature. Motion trail plays an important part in it. Blender has it, but its not editable. An editable motion trail, which is already a part of maya, would make it more favorable for animators. There was an addon by a developer but it was very slow and crashed a lot so he discontinued it.
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* @Josephbburg * yeah thanks for the link. With 2.8 being officially launched, I think addition of this feature would be a game changer for animators
* @naman.khare * From what I understand, it was doable as a Python addon before. I'm not a huge fan of editable motion trails (I've used them in Maya), but of course they're a necessary feature. Every animator has a different workflow, so Blender should have extremely flexible tools for animators.
I remember in version 2.43 there was a Python extension that made it easy to edit an animated track. But, these are lost technologies, now we have only beautiful gizmos.
motion trail is very useful for visualizing what is animated, but changing the trail as is in after effects would be truly helpful :D
* @carlogioventu * Its a must have feature for animators!