Add in-between drawings

Add in-between drawings — guided practice

Use neighboring poses as guides without exporting the guides.

Open the six-pose loop. Add keys at 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23. Suggested centers: (160, 76), (160, 106), (160, 160), (160, 160), (160, 106), (160, 76). These are an artistic timing experiment, not a physics simulation.

1. 1. Enable a useful guide

   In Preferences find Onion skin. Show one previous and one next keyframe at about 25% opacity. Enable previous/next onion skin in Display Options; choose keyframes rather than neighboring held frames if available.

   You should see: Faint adjacent drawings guide the current pose.

   Adjacent keys reveal the gap that the new drawing should bridge.

2. 2. Fill the first gaps

   On Ball, click frame 3 and Add keyframe. Draw a ball near y=76. Add frame 7 at y=106 and frame 11 at y=160. Use the onion guides to keep the ball near x=160.

   You should see: The downward motion now has intermediate positions.

   A new drawing can reduce a large spatial jump.

3. 3. Fill the return gaps

   Add frame 15 at y=160, frame 19 at y=106 and frame 23 at y=76. Keep ordinary outlines close to 24 pixels across. Turn onion skin off and scrub.

   You should see: Twelve distinct keys now occur on the odd-numbered frames.

   The return motion and loop boundary need the same attention as the descent.

4. 4. Compare and save

   Preview at 12 FPS over frames 1–24. Compare with dot-loop-02.pclx, then Save As dot-loop-03.pclx. Record one improvement or remaining uneven jump.

   You should see: Each drawing now holds two frames; total duration remains two seconds.

   More drawings need not change the intended time span.