Must Have Animator Tools: sync sketch

Above: Me giving a crit using syncsketch

MUST HAVE ANIMATOR TOOLS

SYNC SKETCH

I have been forced to use other tools in production, and nothing compares to Synsketch.

Pros and Many Unknown Features:

  • The drawing tools are so robust it’s like animating in Photoshop. I have even animated flames and smoke as cues for animators.
  • When art directing in person, the sync is so fast that I could sit at the artist’s desk, draw on my iPad, and have the draw-overs appear immediately on the computer screen.
  • You can export the drawings as grease pencil files to import into Maya. You can export the content to be almost anything you want for production!
  • Change the playback rate, insert in and out points, undo, ghosting with settings for how many ghosts, turn the annotations off and on, grids, hold drawings, and zoom functionality – seriously, THIS IS THE TOOL!
  • I can mirror the work to watch the motion and ensure it moves well.
  • Annotations can be drawings, changes to the timing, or notes in text form; I can add animated gifs and links from the Internet.
  • Very powerful for artists to see their progress on their shots.
  • It can make data public or private, so no one has to worry about their IPs.

Cons: NONE!

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