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Stickman Tutorial

Konstantin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:52:04 +0000

For a long time people asked for the tutorial explaining how to use Stickman Template and finally I have come up with something that might be called a tutorial. In fact those videos were recorded in different time (you might notice the differences in interface elements), but watching everything in sequence should give you the whole picture. Big thanks to Anna Orlova for translation and subtitling.

Part 1 – Setting up

In this part I will explain the purpose of using stickman and show how to prepare everything for tracing.

Download Part 1 (ogv, 25 Mb)

Part 2 – Tracing

The main tracing procedure is explained here. Notice that the version of Synfig Studio used in this screencast is very old – you can see different icons and even Russian interface elements. I hope that will not distract you. ^_^

Download Part 2 (ogv, 9 Mb)

Part 3 – Compositing tricks

Here I will show some composition tricks that will help you in the tracing process.

Download Part 3 (ogv, 15 Mb)

Part 4 – Shadows

Final part of the series is about tracing shadows.

Download Part 4 (ogv, 43 Mb)

That’s it. I hope you haven’t tired of my mumbling. Enjoy! ^__^

Merging draft images

Konstantin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:44:41 +0000

Here’s a video about merging two similar images with different size/rotation in Synfig Studio. One image contains corrections for another, so it’s important to properly combine them together. Synfig has a few tricks allowing to handle this task with grace.

merging-image-corrections-with-synfig.ogv (27 Mb)

Stickman animation

Konstantin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:41:45 +0000

Stickman video

During the drawing of keyframes for scene 20 we decided to concertize the motion of Ivan by using stickman. Generally, making stickman in Synfig is a simple task, but this one – with forward kinematic.

We made two videos about the process. First video is about finishing making stickman in Synfig Studio – only one hand left, and the head. Next one is about animating the top part of the stickman, Legs are already set up, animating the rest.

Sorry about the files size, but on YouTube those videos look just awful.

EDIT: There is a simpler approach of making stickman exists – without the need to use Radial Composite Converts and Rotate layers. Anyway, here’s two synfig stickman templates: stickman.sifz and stickman-simple.sifz. Enjoy!

IPO drivers in Synfig

Konstantin — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:29:50 +0000

This video shows how the equivalent of blender’s IPO drivers technique could be natively implemented in Synfig Studio.

Example file: ipo-drivers-synfig.sifz.