Quick Breakdown    (Ctrl-E)   

Show and Hide breakdown guides on the fly

Pie Menu    (Alt-E)   

Multiple options for displaying breakdown guides

Configurable

to suit your needs

   SETUP   

Create a collection of objects (Local or linked)

Within your armature's data tab, select your collection

Breakdowner is a blender 'Onion Skinning' addon that was specifically designed with animators in mind.

Animating is already difficult, especially when you add the mental burden of trying to remember what your key poses look like on multiple different frames. Let this addon show you the information you need while you concentrate on whats important.

Breakdowner strives to produce clear and understandable information about key-frames that you have set. It will never generate guides on interpolated frames in between your key-frames. This keeps your view-port clean and clutter free, which allows you to focus on your breakdown pose.

Breakdowner follows the rules of blender's built in operator (Pose Breakdown), all the way to its C++ source, for generating breakdown guides.

When performing a breakdown, this addon will only show you the most previous and future frame. This differs from other onion skinning tools, which usually generate many snapshots of your character all throughout the timeline, or on interpolated frames, etc. This can quickly become visually messy and in some circumstances, even deter the animator from understanding their own animation.

Breakdowner does not attempt to replace other onion skinning addons, but rather, work along side them. Onion skinning in general is a fantastic way to visualize the overall motion of an animation, but as I mentioned before, it can easily just become 'visual noise'. Breakdowner takes a different approach on this subject by working in a more 'localized' way.

YOU'RE THE ANIMATOR, IT'S TIME TO UNLEASH YOUR TALENT!