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Link Sketch to comment

Nacho G

It would be great to have the option  to sync sketches with comments. Each time you sketch a comment popup window could appear.
Having orphan sketches without user or comments sometimes is misleading IMHO.
Cheers,
Nacho

July 21, 2021

Matt Boudreau

I feel like when I click on a comment, it should automatically bring me to the time and space where this comment applies. Like a review in a Word document. Otherwise I have to write numbers? There doesn't seem to be any connection between comments and red circles I draw, employees will have to figure it out themselves. There's something I don't get.

Edit: I'm reviewing a big image, not a video.

Mike Jennings

Matt Boudreau: Clicking on comments does jump you to the frame of the video where it was created (and to the camera position in the 3D Model Viewer), but since you're doing big images that's not relevant. As for the spatial connection: Do you imagine that it should pan to a corresponding sketch? or to a defined rectangle? Should it change the zoom level?

Matt Boudreau

Mike Jennings: I haven't tried the 3D model viewer. If we compare to video, it would be like having multiple comments on the same, unique frame (basically an image), and being able to let the viewer know which comment is associated to which element/highlight/pencil mark in the frame.
Like using a laser pointer.
Changing the zoom level would be tricky I think, I'm not sure how that could be done. The images I use are not THAT big though I can imagine folks reviewing atlases or mega textures. First thing that comes to mind is Sketchup, where you'd place your camera and then "update scene (more like a keyframe really)" so that when you click on it the cam would move. You could also change time of day, hide or display elements, etc. It has more power in terms of how a reviewer or presenter can animate his intention to the team in a structured way, almost like military presenting a mission.
Regards.

Marie Malherbe

It would be very helpful for us as well, we're using it for briefs and our most graphic directors don't always have comments and it's mostly sketches. At the moment we can't download them in the CSV and it's an issue.

Mike Jennings

Marie Malherbe: If you use the Download Sketches as ZIP option, the sketches will have the frame numbers in the file names of the sketch PNGs. Copying these file names might get you a convenient list in a document.

If you're looking for links to those frames, this should be pretty easy to create a convenient file listing frames with sketches and links to those frames by using using the API.

Mike Jennings

Merged in a post:

Sketch Annotations linked to Comments for Stills

Tom Mitchell

When commenting on a still image (or even when giving multiple comments on a single frame of animation) then it would be VERY useful to have each annotation visible or highlighted for that specific comment.

March 21, 2022

Mike Jennings

User Tom Mitchell has this to add: 
If you were to select a comment then only the relevant sketch would be visible. Happy to have the non-relevant sketches perhaps semi transparent though.
Selecting a sketch to highlight the relevant comment would be a great feature too! Very handy!

Mike Jennings

Let me restate your request to see if I understand it correctly.  You would like comments to be associated directly with sketches for stills (the way we do in the 3D Model Viewer)?  
How did you imagine the highlighting to behave?  For example, if you click on a comment, what happens in the canvas area?  
And did you also want to be able to select a sketch so that its comment would be highlighted?

Tom Mitchell

Mike Jennings: Hi Mike, thanks for getting back to me!
Yes, that sounds correct. I haven't used your 3D Model Viewer so can't comment on that part.
If you were to select a comment than only the relevant sketch would be visible. Happy to have the non-relevant sketches perhaps semi transparent though.
Selecting a sketch to highlight the relevant comment would be a great feature too! Very handy!
Basically, the issue we have is when leaving a series of comments on a  single image we end up with a bunch of sketches and it isn't clear which sketch refers to which comment.
Thanks again!!
Cheers,
Tom

Richard Tongeman

Yeah or even empty comments that are placeholder links for sketches so you can browse them in the comment panel.

Mike Jennings

User Timon Leder had this to add:

I miss seeing the drawings not only on the timeline, but also in the comment list as a separate line of text. Many students and animators tend to go through written comments directly on the list (rather than clicking through with "go to next"), so they miss sketches when I don't write down an explanation.

Mike Jennings

We don't have this everywhere at this time, but we do have this behavior in our viewers for 3D objects and 360 "lat/long" images.

John Snygg

Ya sometimes with stills or very few frames tonnes of comments you don't know what comment is to what sketch.