A couple of weeks ago I saw an advertisement for an event on Google Plus. It was for an animation workshop using open-source software presented by Ricardo Graça. The only problem is that the workshop will be held in Rio. They will be capturing the upcoming event on video but the lecture will be in Portuguese. […]
Fridays with Ricardo Read More »
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
Misty available for switch layers Read More »
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
Understanding Z Depth in Synfig Read More »
Working with libraries Understanding libraries was pretty easy so far thanks to Ricardo Graça and Quadro Chave. I can’t thank them enough for everything they’ve posted with regards to Synfig and creating libraries. Libraries are essential for creating cut-out characters. If you want to change facial expressions, mouth shapes or gestures, libraries can help you
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New and Improved This is a product innovation that can be described as “new and improved.” For anyone who has ever longed for easily creating variable-line widths when illustrating, look no further. Synfig has been able to adjust line width for as long as I’ve been tinkering with it, but it’s really upped the ante
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Today I downloaded files from Lungching that he created illustrating Synfig libraries. They were a great help for me and I highly encourage those of you that are trying to use Synfig to check them out. While downloading, I noticed that he was posting them on GitHub and I felt left out by not knowing
Gitting New Things Daily Read More »
Quadro Chave is the Bomb! Quadro Chave’s nice enough to have their Synfig discoveries online on Vimeo. While watching their videos, I picked up a wonderful gem for making some order and controlling your character. Special thanks goes out to all their hard work in helping making sense of this wonderfully deep program. Create a
Synfig How To: Bones Trick for Cut-Out Character Read More »
Hi there. I included a blurb under my terminology post because I was totally lost while reading the Synfig wiki and running into the term “Child dialogue.” I had no clue what it was until I figured out that they just meant the Children Panel. Good to know, right? 🙂
I compiled these notes from the cut-out tutorial on the tutorial page for Synfig. They use an imported png images in order to create a character. Personally, I think it’s smarter to create a vector character from Synfig so that it’s resolution independent. Synfig is also able to import vector files from programs like Inkscape
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