What is SketchBook Motion?
SketchBook Motion is a 2D animation and drawing software developed by Autodesk. It provides a complete toolset for animators to take their work from ideation to finished animation.
Some key features of SketchBook Motion include:
- Intuitive timeline for building animations frame-by-frame
- Onion skinning to visualize previous frames as you draw
- Symmetric and width-varying brushes for sketching and painting
- Unlimited layers and layer grouping
- Camera tools like pan, zoom and rotation
- Ability to import other common graphics formats
- Export finished animations as video files or image sequences
SketchBook Motion makes the process of drawing each frame simple through its clean interface optimized for animation. The onionskin feature lets you see ghosted previous frames underneath the current one, making it easy to maintain consistency. It's ideal for storyboard artists, animators, illustrators, and anyone wanting to create 2D animations from their drawings.