This month I gave to The Gooseberry Project which is an initiative coordinated through the Blender community to bring the world’s best talent together to create a full-length animated film. I stumbled onto the project this month when I decided for the umpteenth time to try to learn 3D. Will the next Walt please stand? There […]
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For the past year I’ve been re-dabbling with Anime Studio. I’ve used Anime Studio since way back in 2003 when it was called Moho. For creating quick cut-out animations, no other software can compare to its power, simplicity and ease of use. Back in the day when I used to create animations for video and
Did you ever do something stupid like drive your car for two weeks with the emergency brake on without realizing it, resulting in a damaged car and emotional psyche? A similar thing happened to me with Synfig this week but the only problem was that the emergency brake was not in clear sight and it
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Synfig now has the capability of creating switch layers. If you’ve never heard of switch layers before, it’s great for cut-out characters. The gist is simple. What you can do is have a folder of mouths or hands that you can easily change out during while timing the animation. Free-for-all To do my part and
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Today I made some headway and was able to finish Misty’s hand positions for her front view. I think that I’ll be able to reuse the hands for other views of Misty. Make the different hands actually didn’t take very long. While I was working on Misty’s hands, I also took a crack at redoing
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I was introduced to GIT over a year ago by a fellow Synfig user and programmer extraordinaire, Lungching. Last week he demoed the benefits of GIT to our animation group. It really opened up my eyes to having version control without hundreds of saved versions of the same file. If you haven’t tried GIT, definitely
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In between working on Misty’s new feet and poses over the past weekend. I started trying out different clothing options for Misty. The cover up I’ve been working on Misty as a character for some time now. When I work in public spaces like Starbucks, I feel kind of like a perv. It’s sad that
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While I was working on all of Misty’s different poses in Synfig, I got sidetracked and started playing in a sweet open source painting program called MyPaint. Painting tool for an artist That pretty much sums up MyPaint—it’s a wonderful tool designed for artists. The simple interface and ease of use make MyPaint a breeze.
It’s been a while since writing an entry or working in Synfig, and now I’m back doing both. I missed using Synfig over the past few months. For this first post back, I wanted to explain something that I figured out that’s obvious to me now, but for a long time has escaped me. I
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Underwear-clad Misty Misty, the character that I’ve been working on for my first Synfig animation, has been only dressed in under garments since her inception. I know that I want a 50s/60s look for her, but so far I haven’t come up with anything. A couple of weeks ago, I was playing around with ideas
