Another nice feature to add that professional touch is that Synfig Studio supports basic sound for syncing your newly created animation up to a soundtrack by using the Sound Layer.
You can also create cutout animation via bitmap and have full vector artwork control. It fully supports numerous layer types such as geometric, gradients, filters, distortions, transformations, and fractal. It uses a combination of bitmap and vector graphics to achieve professional-quality animations that all skill levels can produce. Start Papagayo, open your audio-file.wav then write the text corresponding to the audio, choose the language of the text, click Breakdown, the text will then appear on the audio wave, drag with the mouse cursor the part green corresponding to the whole.
If everything will be fine, you can expect development version published next week.Synfig Studio for Windows and Linux puts powerful 2D animation at your fingertips, allowing you to create film-quality animation right from your desktop in minimal time. Method1 (recent) It is important to stress from the start that the explanation of method1, so the text below was made by watching the video, and then adding the comments, so it is highly recommended to start by watching video1 and then video2. We are very close to release of version 1.4.0, still, before the stable release happen we will publish at least one development version to properly test all new features.
Exporting Bones (Skeleton) animation is not implemented yet.If a layer is not supported, it will be notified in this file. FILE.log stores all messages/errors appeared during the export.Here is an example implementation at codepen.io. Use it if you want to embed your animation to some webpage. FILE.json is the main file where the Lottie format animation resides.To watch exported animation, just open FILE.html with any browser like Firefox or Google Chrome.This will export the currently opened file to Lottie format.Īfter the export, you’ll have 3 files in the same directory as your animation: FILE.html, FILE.json and FILE.log. To access this plugin, choose “ Plugins” – “ Export to Lottie” from menu. This format is also used for creating Telegram’s animated stickers!Ĭurrently plugin is capable to export most main graphic elements, with animation applied to their parameters (various types of interpolations supported), some converters can be applied to parameters (see detailed list of supported layers and parameters on this page). Lottie format allows to play animations natively in web browser and on mobile platforms. Export animation for webĪnish Gulati created a plugin which exports Synfig animations in Lottie JSON format. We had two students working on Synfig with summer thanks to Google’s sponsorship and results of their work will be shipped in upcoming stable release.
In this post I will focus on new features implemented as part of Google Summer of Code program. The release of next stable version of Synfig is approaching fast and we have a lot to add to our previous sneak peek at upcoming features.