Animates Complete Animation Suite by David Hallows

If you animate in Blender, you know how much time gets eaten up by fiddly keyframe work, scrubbing timelines, and fighting with motion paths. Animates Complete Animation Suite by David Hallows is a professional toolkit designed to cut through all of that and let you focus on what actually matters: making great animation.

Built by an animator with over 10 years of teaching experience, this suite bundles together the tools that working animators reach for every day. It includes a Breakdowner for creating perfectly weighted in betweens with real time sliders, a Retimer for adjusting keyframe timing with visual feedback, Key Amp and Smooth tools for amplifying or taming your curves without destroying arcs, and GPU accelerated Onion Skinning that actually performs in production scenes.

What Is Included

The suite packs in a serious amount of functionality. Motion Paths let you visualise animation arcs directly in the 3D viewport with interactive keyframe editing. Lock to World (the footlocker) pins bones to world space coordinates so you can edit parent transforms without foot sliding. Temp Pivot lets you create temporary transform pivots without parenting or empty objects. Smart Selection modes give you playhead and nearest key selection, repeated click grow, directional selection, and channel visibility toggling.

You also get Workflow and Key Colours for organising and labelling your keyframes with custom colours, perfect for visual reference during blocking, breakdowns, and polish passes. Plus Smart Smooth for context aware fcurve cleanup that preserves your poses, and a clean tool for removing redundant keys.

Compatibility

Animates works across Windows, macOS (including Apple Silicon), and Linux. Version 1.1.4 is the current release at 121.5 MB.