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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Giving Misty a voice Yesterday morning I thought it would be fun to test the mouths that I recently created for Misty. I tried to make it all happen by using open source software. I needed to find a voice for Misty and discovered Jenny Mayhem. She’s a up-and-coming singer/songwriter has real talent. I downloaded
Progress! So Misty is finally getting her facial expressions together. I still need to work on the body, hand and feet charts, but she’s getting close to being complete. Layout software troubles I have been trying to make everything in open-source software, but I think I may be hitting the wall. After I collected all
After spending the past week working on how to make libraries in Synfig, I finally was able to start working on all the different body positions for Misty. I’m hoping to get everything drawn in the next week. I may rethink how I originally constructed Misty once everything is drawn. I think I may be
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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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Chocolate in My Peanut Butter! Okay, for the past few years I’ve been trying to learn Synfig in fits and spurts—working on my wonderful Ubuntu laptop. Teaching classes, clients and contracts all have been taking a front seat to learning and using Synfig. I want to attempt to post something weekly that I’ve accomplished or
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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Today I reviewed how to create a cut-out character for Synfig and created Thumbalina to explain the process. In the next couple days I’ll be adding my tips, process and notes. the steps were easy for me to go through and I hope that I can make the process clear for others. When I’m done
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