Displaying Only Key Drawings, Breakdowns or In-Betweens in Onion Skin

If you have a lot of drawings and only want to display certain kinds of drawings in the Onion Skin, you can make the Onion Skin only include drawings that have been marked as keyframes or breakdowns and ignore all the in-betweens. Likewise, you can also make the Onion Skin only display drawings that are not marked (in-betweens) and ignore key drawings and breakdowns.

In order to be able to do this, you must properly mark your drawings first—see About Marked Drawings.

NOTE If you make the Onion Skin only display specific kinds of drawings, the Onion Skin will automatically select the drawings to display by drawing rather than by frame, and will only take drawings of the selected types in account. For example, if the Onion Skin is set to include two drawings before and after the current frame, and is set to only display key drawings, it will display the two nearest key drawings before the current frame and the two nearest key drawings after the current frame.

For more information about selecting drawings by frame or by drawing, see Selecting Drawings to Include in Onion Skin by Frames or by Drawings.
  1. Make sure your key drawings and breakdowns are properly marked—see About Marked Drawings.
  1. Add the Onion Skin toolbar to your workspace by doing one of the following:
    • Right-click on a toolbar and select Onion Skin.
    • In the top menu, select Windows > Toolbars > Onion Skin.

    The Onion Skin toolbar appears.

    Onion Skin Toolbar

  1. Do one of the following to enable Onion Skin:

    • In the Tools toolbar, click on the Onion Skin button.

    • In the Timeline view, click on the Onion Skin button left of the layer name.

    • In the top menu, select View > Onion Skin > Show Onion Skin.
    • Press Alt + O.
  2. Using the Onion Skin toolbar, do one or several of the following:
    • To only show key drawings in the Onion Skin, click on Show Key drawings
    • To only show breakdown drawings in the Onion Skin, click on Show Breakdown drawings
    • To only show in-between drawings in the Onion Skin, click on Show In-between drawings
    • To only show retake key drawings in the Onion Skin, click on Show Retake Key drawings
    • To only show retake breakdown drawings in the Onion Skin, click on Show Retake Breakdown drawings.
    • To only show retake in-between drawings in the Onion Skin, click on Show Retake In-between drawings.
    • To show more than one types of drawings at the same time, click on the buttons for each type of drawings you want to display in the Onion Skin.
    • To go back to showing all drawings in the Onion Skin, click on all the buttons you clicked on to toggle them back off.

  3. Do one of the following as many times as necessary to only include the drawings you want to see in the Onion Skin:

    • To increase the amount of previous drawings to display, click on the Add Previous Drawing button in the Camera/Drawing view toolbar.
    • To decrease the amount of previous drawings to display, click on the Remove Previous Drawing button in the Camera/Drawing view toolbar.
    • To increase the amount of next drawings to display, click on the Add Next Drawing button in the Camera/Drawing view toolbar.
    • To decrease the amount of next drawings to display, click on the Remove Next Drawing button in the Camera/Drawing view toolbar.