Yesterday, genete and dooglus worked on the ugly rotation bug in Synfig and today finally fixed it! This bug was considered as a blocker for us and that fix making me especially happy. Just compare by yourself:
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.
Here’s the animatique for the 12th scene of demo.
The original 6 positions of human figure were drawn in Pencil. That allows us to set timing properly and to get the idea of the motion in general. Then we imported keyframes in Synfig Studio and created smooth motion.
Now, when we ensured what animation is looks smooth enough we could proceed with redraw of original 6 keyframes in detail.
Denis has managed to assemble all parts of the 24th scene into his first animation for this project. I suppose some of our readers are already saw this katana. The background is kindly provided by Carlos López González.
This is a kind of “proof of concept” for me. Is Synfig Studio really capable to produce anime? I think it is. Only Open Source tools were used while its creation.
Video is licensed under: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
NOTE: You need svn version of Synfig Studio >= 2026 to view the sources.
