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Add ability to annotate with more complex shapes, onion skin

Kirk Chantraine

March 01, 2016 19:25

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Here are a few things we'd really like to see in the annotations toolbox!

• straight lines
• circle/ellipse
• squares
• arrows (at least straight line with an arrow head, also ability to create curved arrows would be nice and also any type of perspective arrow tool would be great too)
• onion skinning to have previous frames ghosted

Thanks!

Kirk Chantraine, Lead Software Engineer - Pipeline
MPC Film
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13 comments

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  Tarmy April 21, 2016 12:51

  YES YES YES, oh god please YES!

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  Keith Seyer August 01, 2016 20:29

  This would be a HUGE boost to the animation team.  Being able to animate in a 2D fashion by holding a drawing over multiple frames (in addition to onion skinning) would make a big difference in how we're able to give animation notes internally.  It's a lot more descriptive to have a series of drawings play over existing animation than just having one drawing over one frame, or worse, having to describe the action in text.

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  Alex Wilkie October 07, 2016 00:12

  Yes, this is still a top requested feature at our studio.

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  eric leong January 30, 2018 08:36

  BUMP! Really would be so useful to have the onion skin feature! Any updates if this is planned for a future release would be helpful.

• 7
  
  Manuel Agost February 06, 2018 22:24

  It would be great if we could also select and move shapes.

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  Wesley Chandler March 15, 2018 20:13

  Big bump on this! So many departments of leads and supes uses rv Annotations.   Having hotkeys for all these commands would also be a huge time saver!  Imagine using Photoshop how you can just press 'B' to brush, then 'E' to erase, 'T' to type text.  All commands we use multiple times every day.

   

   

• 5
  
  Bryan Litson March 19, 2018 19:39

  BUMP'ing this thread. This would be of large benefit to my daily work and that of our studio.

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  Daniel Cavalcante May 30, 2018 13:43

  We need this so much! BUMP!

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  Art Curry May 30, 2018 14:10

  Onion skinning would be a terrific addition, along with held drawings. Hotkeys would also be a huge boon to productivity and efficiency.

• 4
  
  Jamie Austad May 31, 2018 19:24

  These abilities would be so useful!

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  Alex Wilkie May 31, 2018 19:50

  I wouldn't hold out any hope... We submitted this over two years ago with subsequent bumps from many of our VFX Supes but nothing from Autodesk.....

• 15
  
  Tad Topping December 07, 2018 14:00

  Here's a more complete list of features that could make Annotation mode a LOT better:
  
  

  - Timeslider where we can move drawings from a frame to the other
  - Onion skin
  - Layers

  - Being able to hold a drawing for several frames

   

   
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  mathieu assemat June 06, 2019 18:21

  Any news on this by any chance ?