Onion skinning is a technique used by animators to see multiple frames at once. By using this technique, artists can easily see how to alter or adjust an image based on the previous image in the sequence. This technique is very useful for 3d animators to see previous animation frames or the later frames at once as well.

Slash is an add-on which aims to make using onion skinning technique easier for Blender users. It provides a clean and easy-to-use user interface and will make your animation skill to next level.

You can download the sample blend file in the video here:

slash_sample_demo.blend 

Works for Blender 2.8. or later version

Features

• Let you see earlier frames, later frames at the same time
• Onion skinning for all frames

• Onion skinning for a range of frames

• Onion skinning on some specific frames which you add
• Onion skinning on multiple meshes at the same time
• Intuitive user interfaces, you don't even learn to use this add-on, it tells what you can do with it.

Bug reports

If you encounter bugs while using Slash on Blender 2.80, please report bugs in this thread, and I will fix them soon.

Report bugs or submit suggestions in this thread.

Please check the Documentation tab in this page for usage details.

Get Supports:

Discord: https://discord.gg/nTVkSNQ

You can also find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryh1113

Changelog

Version 1.0.4:

• Add on preference option to rename add-on tab name in N panel

Version 1.0.3:

• Fix: some edge case errors while keep original oinon without custom colors option turns on

Version 1.0.2:

• Fix: new_object_from() error
• Correctly handle empty type mesh

Version 1.0.1:

• Use a better icon for added collections of objects

Version 1.0.0:

• Can add linked collection into Slash

Version 0.1.1:

• Frame Range - Relative: Fix showing wrong onion objects

Version 0.1.0:

• Fix: Wrong onion objects position while turn on automatically move onion objects behind

Version 0.0.9:

• Correctly handle alpha for onion objects while rendering

Version 0.0.8:

• Fix: Crash while frame increment is zero

Version 0.0.7:

• Fix: Crash while rendering animation after start onion

Version 0.0.6

• Show onion objects while animation playback in realtime
• Fix: Add-on crashes while active and deactive
• Some bug fixes
• Add an option to only preview onion objects for keyframes

Version 0.0.5

• Add an option to keep original onions and don't apply custom colors and alpha

     See this demo video:

• Fix: Onion object is not smooth

Version 0.0.4

• Move Slash settings into Slash category instead of  Misc

Version 0.0.3

• Fix addon not work for the latest Blender 2.8 build due to the dependency graph API changes.

Version 0.0.2

• Add a checkbox option to move onion objects behind current object or not, see Documentation for more explaination.

Version 0.0.1

• Initial release