by Aldrin's Art Factory·Motion Graphics
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Stopmagic earns its place in the Superhive library for focusing Blender's tooling around stop motion, from keyframe shortcuts to keyed-frame navigation. The onion skins feature is noted as experimental and creates extra objects in the scene.
Stopmagic is an add-on for Blender built around the workflow of stop motion animation. It provides a set of customizable keyboard shortcuts for common actions: adding a keyframe to the current active mesh and frame, skipping frames forward or backward with an optional keyframe, and jumping to the previous or next frame that holds a keyed mesh. This lets you set up poses without navigating manually through the timeline.
Frame skipping lets you move forwards or backwards and add a keyframe to pose an object, with control over the number of frames skipped and the option to disable automatic keyframing. An experimental onion skins feature shows past and future frames of the active object over a chosen frame range, with adjustable colors for past and future objects; note that it creates new objects and meshes in the scene.
Additional utilities include an upgrade check that links to the latest version or the releases page, a button to reinitialize the frame handler if the add-on stops working, and a purge tool for removing unused mesh data. Documentation is available.
Stopmagic is best for blender artists producing stop motion, claymation and pose-based animation.
Stopmagic is completely free to download and use.
Stopmagic lists support for Blender versions 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0, 2.93, 2.92 and 2.91. If you run one of these releases, the add-on is designed to work with your setup. For any version outside this range, or to confirm current compatibility, check the developer's page so you know the tool matches the Blender build you are working in. Confirming the version first helps you avoid surprises when installing the add-on into your project.
Stopmagic assigns Ctrl Shift A to add a keyframe to the current active mesh and frame, Ctrl Shift Z and Ctrl Shift X to skip frames backward or forward with an optional keyframe, and Ctrl Shift C and Ctrl Shift V to find the previous or next frame with a keyed mesh. All of these shortcuts can be customized if required, letting you adapt them to your own workflow.
Stopmagic's onion skins feature lets you provide a frame range and see the past and future onion skins of the active object, with adjustable colors for the past and future objects. It is marked as experimental and creates new objects and meshes in the scene, so it may be buggy. Keep that behaviour in mind when working, and consult the documentation for details on using the feature.
Stopmagic is listed as free in this catalog and is offered under a royalty-free license. Licensing terms can change over time, so for the current terms and the latest download it is best to check the developer's page directly. Stopmagic also includes an in-app upgrade check that, when a network is available, links to the newest version or otherwise to the releases page.
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