The New Animation System 2020 : Character animation system

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Blender devs can of course implement ideas or features that are already available in add-ons. But add-ons are coded in Python and Blender in C++, the code has to be ported to be available natively in Blender.

I just found MotionTrail3D creator original topic, it"s super interesting, they also talk about monetizing vs paid add-ons:

Editable Motion Trails 3D

Blender devs are still able to implement their own core motion trail. I’d love if they do because my implementation isn’t the best and has it’s issues. They’d be able to make it more efficient, create more robust trail controls (mine uses Blender objects and has lots of code to compensate for this hack), and I hope they do things that are in my current list of Caveats and Limitations. I’m an animator who just happens to know how to code so I just made myself one. As far as piggybacking, I unde…

• Supposing he would be interested and know enough C++ to do it, would it be possible to hire the creator of this add-on for a while so he can integrate it into blender as a core feature?

Older Motion Trail add-on
The thread above had a link that made me discover an older add-on called “Bart Crouch Motion Trail” that i think was free but i"m not sure it was updated for 2.82:

Help needed for Motion trails Addon 2.8 update

Hello everyone, so there was this addon on 2.6 which was basically motion paths on steroids. It drew a curve from the selected bones’ transform through your animation in real time and allowed you to edit the curve in order to edit the animaiton. here is a demo of what the addon was able to do in its 2.6 glory. [Motion Trail for Blender] A friend of mine, Ikeiwa is trying to make it work for 2.8 but has trouble fixing the portion of the code that makes the addon unusable right now. …