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I recently visited another stop-motion forum (not LEGO, though), and some of the people there are really good at animation, but apparently, a lot of the 'pros' don't use onion-skinning; instead they go back and forth between frames. Some of the people have been animating since the 80's and earlier. 
Personally, I find onion-skinning very helpful. Do you use onion-skinning?
I am still learning atm to do brick films and personally i find onion skinning very helpful, but at the moment i only have monkey jam but onion skinning is definitely recommended for people starting off.
Sometimes i do 
I use onion-skinning. I like using it because it also shows me where the tiny bumps are.
I don't because I can't.
No animation software for me!
It sounds ridiculously useful, though. But you can still make pretty great animations without it.
I don't use it. I just use the Epson capture software, which doesn't have that option. But... I don't really mind.
Huh, I was just talking about onionskinning in chat yesterday (I brought it up).
I use it, and I use it for:
1. Camera/Set/Prop/Character bump correction.
2. In my Double Rigging method; which is having an object that I want floating is held up by a rig from the bottom in one frame and held from the top by a different rig in the next (this makes masking easier and smoother). Onionskinning really helps me get the object in the same place in both frames.
3. Tracking shots. It helps me get the character or object I'm tracking in the same part of the frame in every frame.
I use it, i have dragon stop motion it is very handy!!
-Jan687
I don't know if I could live without my Onion-Skinning friend.
All those tiny bumps and tiny arm movements only really get noticed on Onion-Skin.
I don't because I can't.
No animation software for me!
It sounds ridiculously useful, though. But you can still make pretty great animations without it.
This. The capture program that I use is logitech software which comes with every webcam of theirs.
@Larry
What webcam do you have? I thought that all the logitech webcams work with helium frog, which happens to have onion-skinning. I use it. 
So yeah, I've been using onion-skinning ever since I got my c920 (about 4 months). It makes things SOOOOOOO much easier, and lets me see if the movements are good, if I need to change something, etc. It's helped improve my vids some.
I use it when I bump the camera or forget which stud the walk cycle is on. 
@Larry
What webcam do you have? I thought that all the logitech webcams work with helium frog, which happens to have onion-skinning. I use it.So yeah, I've been using onion-skinning ever since I got my c920 (about 4 months). It makes things SOOOOOOO much easier, and lets me see if the movements are good, if I need to change something, etc. It's helped improve my vids some.
I use Quickcam 9K I know I could use Helium Frog with it but I'm just used to capturing the frames with the good old Logitech capture software
Nope, I don't. It doesn't work, so I frame flip instead. I'm getting a new computer soon, though.
I don't. I find it more challenging if I don't use it. I forces me to be more observative and not take frames so quickly. However, even if I wanted to use onion skinning, I couldn't because my camera can't stream onto my computer in a program such as DragonFrame or Helium Frog plus, DragonFrame and iStopmotion are like $500 
I bought iStopMotion 3 when (so it seems) it was on sale for $20 (right now it's $50 on the Mac App Store). I use the onion skinning when I have a live preview, but in the unlikely event that I'm using my still frame camera, no.
When I was less experienced with Vegas studio, in-between frames were being interpolated automaticly in an onion skin type of way. I actually hated it and it took me a long time to figure out what to do about it.
For a great look at animation done without onion skinning that looks like it uses it, watch frame-by-frame some of Daffy Duck's wild motions in "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" and others that Bob Clampett directed.
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) but MonkeyJam doesn't have it. And to tell the truth, while it was useful, I don't miss it that much. Going back and forth between the frames works just as well.
