![]() Now click on the center of the circle and holding down your mouse button, drag it back up to the upper left corner of the Canvas. 0f is the beginning of the animation, at zero frames.ĭouble-click in that box and change it to 2s12f (means 2 seconds and 12 frames, which is the half way point of your animation). That lets you know what frame of the animation you are in. (Normally, instead of moving it into it's first position, you would set a keyframe for the first position of the circle before moving it, but that can be for a later tutorial.)Īt the bottom left of your Canvas window, you see a little window with 0f in it. That will be the starting position for the Circle. Then place your mouse pointer over the center green dot in the circle and click and hold down your mouse button and drag the circle to the lower right corner of the Canvas. There is also a green dot on the edge of the circle, but please to not click on it for this tutorial. Now, if the circle you drew in the Canvas window does not have a green dot in the center click with your mouse pointer somewhere inside the circle to activate it. In this case you only have one, a circle. That let's you know any changes you make in this mode will affect the animation of your objects. If you hover your mouse over it again, it will now say: "In Animate Editing Mode"Īlso, you will now see a red border around your Canvas in the Canvas window. If you hover your mouse over it, it will say: "Not in Animate Editing Mode"Ĭlick it and it will turn red. Go back to your Canvas window and in the lower right corner of the window, beyond the Canvas area, there is a little green dot. When finished, go back to the Toolbox window and select the Normal Tool, basically looks like and arrow with a circle shading on it. Somewhere towards the upper left corner of your Canvas Window, click and drag out your mouse a short distance to make a little circle. Once you have made those changes, if you have to at all, click OK to close the window.Ĭlick on the Circle Tool from the Toolbox window. In there set your Start Time to 0f (for frame zero) and End Time to 5s (for five seconds) Set Frame per Second to 24.00. In the window that opens, towards the bottom there are three tabbed sections. The other is the Toolbox window, like Gimp it has the various Tool icons on it.įirst, place your mouse pointer anywhere inside the Canvas portion of the Canvas window (the part with the checkerboard squares), right-click your mouse and select: The two to concern yourself with at the moment are the main Canvas window, which is comparable to the Gimp Image Window, where you do you drawing. ![]() ![]() If you would like to try a simple animation, having a circle move from point A to point B and back to point A, I'll post some simple steps for you here:Īfter opening Synfig Studio, you have a lot of windows that open. Just as with Gimp, it can feel overwhelming at first using it. Last edited by ccbarr on Sun 7:27 am, edited 2 times in total.ĭid you try the basic synfig animation tutorial? sifz file for anyone wanting to see how I got the animation to this point:įeel free to modify it and use it as you like. A lot of possibilities here.Įdit: Here is a link to the Synfig. I can imagine having the weave animation, followed by some text floating in like "Happy Spring", "Welcome Spring" or something similar, and maybe some butterflies or birds also float into position. That is the trick of animation, deceive the viewer. While it looks like one continuous animation, in fact it is four separate animations, each running on it's own, combined to look like one single flowing animation. It was slowly adjusted from there over a few hours time. The first design began as just a weave of one thin blue line going through some black lines. It began with me trying to figure out a method to make a weaving animation in Synfig Studio. It can still use much more polishing, it's not a final piece. Here is one I recently started designing in Synfig Studio: I'm glad we have a section here for other graphics applications and that it is separate from Gimp graphics.
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