Onion Skins and Scratch

vlpiscanc

Pixilart and Piskel have onion skins and can be used online.

Minescratcher367

I've used onion skins, or layers for animations before, and it makes animating easier. You can do something similar to layers on Scratch bitmap editor by duplicating the costume, using the fill tool to turn it red, or any color you want, and trace over it with black, if you filled it with black, trace it with white.

minor-edit

They have an issue open for this with “feature” and “needs-design” labels.

davidkt wrote:

There might be a workaround, though…

In Scratch 3, this could sort of work with a clone, if a sprite costume in the editor and on stage appeared exactly the same, in particular during all times of the editing process.

KittyFireSt0rm

Minescratcher367 wrote:
I've used onion skins, or layers for animations before, and it makes animating easier. You can do something similar to layers on Scratch bitmap editor by duplicating the costume, using the fill tool to turn it red, or any color you want, and trace over it with black, if you filled it with black, trace it with white.

tbh before I got Autodesk Sketchbook, this was how I onion skinned, it's just as effective

BitTheDrone

Soup port!

SandwichCafe

I support

Botcho_Otkho

BitTheDrone wrote:
Soup port!

SandwichCafe wrote:
I support

Please, add to the discussion and post only if you have something useful to add.

xRyeunMigsx

work around:
copy the frame, paste it on the orginial position, then set the orginial to any color (also change the outlines)

MrFluffyPenguins

Botcho_Otkho wrote:
BitTheDrone wrote:
Soup port!
SandwichCafe wrote:
I support
Please, add to the discussion and post only if you have something useful to add.

but is that post you made useful to anyone else?

Support! This would be really useful for animations.

Deerfoot

@xRyeunMigsx ‘s way to still use it is correct, and there really isn’t a need when we can solve it like that.

Last edited by Deerfoot (May 15, 2020 22:20:51)

Twitchyw360

I played around with blocks and this works for me

Please credit if used though. Note: It may not work for you, it's still in the testing stages!
IMPORTANT: When creating the onion skinning custom block make sure to check the “run without screen refresh” box!

define “set onion-skinning to (number input)% opacity”
switch costume to “costume number - 1”
set “ghost” effect to “100 - (number input)”
stamp
next costume
set “ghost” effect to 0

(separate script:)

when “green flag” pressed
erase all

(separate script)

when “space” key pressed
erase all
set onion-skinning to (number input)% opacity

Press space key once you move onto your next frame! Please credit me if used :)

-StarryPup-

Twitchyw360 wrote:
I played around with blocks and this works for me Please credit if used though. Note: It may not work for you, it's still in the testing stages!
IMPORTANT: When creating the onion skinning custom block make sure to check the “run without screen refresh” box!

define “set onion-skinning to (number input)% opacity”
switch costume to “costume number - 1”
set “ghost” effect to “100 - (number input)”
stamp
next costume
set “ghost” effect to 0

(separate script:)

when “green flag” pressed
erase all

(separate script)

when “space” key pressed
erase all
set onion-skinning to (number input)% opacity

Press space key once you move onto your next frame! Please credit me if used :)

(im on my alt lol, but the project with the blocks is inside this project.)

Toothy_Toothless101

Lukia26 wrote:
My question is simple (so sorry if someone already asked about this). Will Scratch ever add onion skins? If they did, that would be so awesome XD lol…just saying. You should be able to turn it on and off. For those who don't know what an onion skin is, it's the option to show a ghost image of the previous costume on the drawing screen, without it actually being part of that costume. It's very useful for animation. I've tried to use Pencil and import files into Scratch, but it never seems to work, the formatting is weird, etc. I'm not trying to ask too much, but this addition would make a huge difference to me.
Thanks for listening,

~Luki

I was just talking about that! YES I WOULD LOVE THAT!

PolarisHD

i agree

PolarisHD

Toothy_Toothless101 wrote:
Lukia26 wrote:
My question is simple (so sorry if someone already asked about this). Will Scratch ever add onion skins? If they did, that would be so awesome XD lol…just saying. You should be able to turn it on and off. For those who don't know what an onion skin is, it's the option to show a ghost image of the previous costume on the drawing screen, without it actually being part of that costume. It's very useful for animation. I've tried to use Pencil and import files into Scratch, but it never seems to work, the formatting is weird, etc. I'm not trying to ask too much, but this addition would make a huge difference to me.
Thanks for listening,

~Luki

I was just talking about that! YES I WOULD LOVE THAT!

It would help animating. I use Adobe Animate more for that reason

hani2018

Support

Dominic15nh

thoyal wrote:
Jonathan50 wrote:
thoyal wrote:
This would be cool. However, I think you should only be able to use this feature once you earn the full Scratcher status.
Why?
To avoid confusion.

There could be a button in the edit menu of the project editor. (e.g.

and then

)

PolarisHD

no onion skins in the vector/bitmap editor

SolarKnight

PolarisHD wrote:
no onion skins in the vector/bitmap editor

youre right. there arent, which is why we're asking for them

Catholiiq

I feel like onion skins would be more rewarding to have them versus not introducing them. It doesn't have to have onion transparency or keyframes and hold frames, just a simple “flip-book” addition to the program would be great. Not just for animators, but for game-makers and other Scratchers as well.

For a long while, I could only animate on Scratch (my parents were reluctant to download animation programs for me at the time). If only onion skins were introduced in my time, I would've taken off with animation so much faster than the discouraging “red-erase-blue” technique I was doing (and what most other animators on scratch are doing too) which was in fact, MUCH harder and much more time consuming than regular onion skin.

I fully support this idea!

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