Whippet Shots v1.12

A free storyboarding add-on for Blender to manage cameras and render playblasts into the sequencer automatically to quickly edit your sequences.

Why did I make Whippet Shots? I wanted an add-on that was not feature rich. I wanted to sign off of work and not feel like I'm looking at a work program but rather a blank canvas I could open and just create stories. The add-on is not intended to compete with the other major storyboard add-ons for Blender such as Storyliner, Vision or Actionboards. It's more of a stepping stone to getting into one of those feature rich add-ons.

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If you're interested in learning more about storyboarding in Blender, consider taking my Intro to 3D Storyboarding in Blender Course starting June 16th!

Core Features (free)

• Designed to work for Blender 4.4

• Creating and managing cameras

• Visualize camera in and out points in the Dopesheet with strips

• Jump frame gaps between different cameras

• Shoot overlapping coverage

• Custom camera list to jump between cameras and adjust render ranges

• Playblast tools to quickly render shots and automatically import the shots as Video Strips into the Sequencer

• Dopesheet header buttons to replace the timeline view

Upcoming Features (paid)

• Updates to work for future versions of Blender

• Rename cameras

• Duplicate cameras

• Move camera strips without having to readjust in and out frames individually

• Full Integration with Whippet GP as one single add-on.

  • Insert GP Keyframes will automatically move end frames of cameras (see video)

• Move object keyframes with associated cameras

Full Documentation

Download zip file

(or download from Gumroad)

whippetshots_v1.12.zip

Download ZIP • 23KB

Features Overview Video

UI Images

Patch Notes

5.30 / v1.12 

• Updated Playblast renders so renders now show whatever is in your viewport instead of plain ole object mode. Be sure to turn off overlays when you want to render a 'rendered mode' playblasts. Save before rendering and be patient! 🙏

5.26 / v1.1 

• Fixed an issue where rendering all shots would not render shots individually but render directly from playback. This caused issues with shots that had overlapping frame ranges.,

• Rendering all shots now ignores any shot that is toggled off,

• Rendering all shots resets the render range in the scene from the first shot in_frame to the last shot out_frame,

• Jump Gaps and Overlap Shots buttons remain in the same state as they were before rendering all camera playblasts

5.24 / v1.0 

• Fixed an issue where the frame handler would not register when reopening a file