Using the Onion Skin in Cut-out Animation
When animating cut-out characters, it is useful to see the previous and next frames on the animation. However, it can sometimes be confusing to see the onion skin for every part of the character. You will often only want to see the onion skin on a single part or a few parts, such as the arm that is currently being animated.
While animating in the Camera view, there is a series of different onion skin options. You can enable these options in the menu or manually in the Timeline view using the layer's Show Onion Skin 
button. Only selected layers will be displayed in the onion skin preview; you can change the display options when you use the onion skin.
How to use the onion skin
- In the Tools toolbar, click the Onion Skin
button or press Alt + O.
- In the Tools toolbar, click the Transform
tool or press Shift + T.
- In the Camera view, select one or more elements.
- Select View > Onion Skin and one of the following commands:
- Add to Onion Skin: Adds a series of selected elements to the onion skin preview.
- Remove From Onion Skin: Removes a series of selected elements from the onion skin preview.
- Remove Unselected from Onion Skin: Removes all elements except the ones selected from the onion skin preview.
- Add All to Onion Skin: Adds all of the scene's elements to the onion skin preview.
- Remove All from Onion Skin: Removes all of the scene's elements from the onion skin preview.
Add to Onion Skin
The Add to Onion Skin command adds a series of selected elements to the onion skin preview. The keyboard shortcut is Shift + S.
Remove from Onion Skin
The Remove From Onion Skin command removes a series of selected elements from the onion skin preview.
Remove Unselected from Onion Skin
The Remove Unselected from Onion Skin command removes all elements except the ones selected from the onion skin preview.
Add All to Onion Skin
The Add All to Onion Skin command adds all scene elements to the onion skin preview. The keyboard shortcut is Alt + Shift + O.
Remove All from Onion Skin
The Remove All Onion Skin command removes all scene elements from the onion skin preview. The keyboard shortcut is Ctrl + Shift + O (Windows/Linux) or ⌘ + Shift + O (Mac OS X).
