3D Onion Skinning - Blender Addon

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🎯 Why Choose 3D Onion Skinning?

Because it brings a super productive User Experience in a compact UI, backed up by built-in geometry nodes tech. Whether you're studying or crafting the flow of action in your animations, this add-on gives you multi-frame-visual-progression. The clarity you need to perfect every frame with no hustle!

⭐ Key Features

🎬 Relative Frame Baking

Bake and display frames before and after your current frame
Customizable frame counts and colors
Perfect for analyzing timing and spacing in your animations
Amazing Auto-Update features to keep you focused on the task:

⚡ Auto-Update on Frame Change

Once you finished changing a frame with the arrows on you keyboard or scrubbing the timeline it automatically updates! And it supports the Timeline Scrub feature from Grease Pencil Tool built-in add-on! During playback it is avoided, so you won't get several updates in a row while you still able to see your animation flowing when you play it.

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⚡ Auto-Update on Tweaks

Automatically updates when you add, remove, translate key-frames or graph handles! Refreshing on the fly what will happen to the action without even changing a frame for inspection!

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🎨Visualize in Solid and Render modes!

Generate translucent materials with distinct customizable colors in Solid View.
In render mode: Automatic fading based on frame distance.

🎭 Object Flexibility

Support for meshes, curves, surfaces, fonts, metas, and even Instanced collections!
Works with library overrides and even linked data!
Vertex group support for targeted specific geometry areas.
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Bypass specific objects on the fly while keeping them on stand-by (the eye icon)
Perfect for complex multi-object scenes

🖥️ User-Friendly Interface and Great User Experience

Compact interface where you can even decide to not display it in your "probably crowded Side Panel" 🫢!
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+O for instant pop-up access anywhere in the UI (Shortcut is customizable)!
Intuitive to use with tool-tips in every parameter
Expandable object list for easy management
Create shortcuts for any operation and edit them as you wish.

💪 Why It's Superior

🚀 Based on Blender's native technology

Built on Python and Blender's geometry node system, baking data efficiently with minimal overhead.

🔧 Seamless Integration

Works natively from Blender 4.5 LTS and up!
No external dependencies required

👁️‍🗨️ See it in action!

Don't let poor timing and spacing hold back your animations. Take a look 👀 one of its use cases below and upgrade your workflow with 3D Onion Skinning today!