Made this on stream today :>

  • NorthWestWind@lemmy.worldOP
    2·
    3 months ago

    Thanks!

    I first have the animation idea brew in my head for about 2 weeks, so I know exactly what scenes there will be. Then it’s just a combination of Inkscape, Synfig Studio and Kdenlive.

    For each scene, I first create a static version (i.e. vector art) on Inkscape. Then I import it into Synfig Studio for making vector animation. Finally I put all the snippets together and add sound in Kdenlive.

    • Owl@mander.xyz
      2·
      3 months ago

      Thank you !

      Synfig looks very complicated with few resources. Do you know any that are worth watching/ reading ?

      Keep up the good work !

      • NorthWestWind@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        3 months ago

        I never read any tutorials on how to use it so I can’t recommend any :/

        Since I am mostly importing SVG into the program, I don’t actually need to deal with creating any layers in Synfig. Here are the basics:

        1. Drag the play head to a frame where you want things to change
        2. Turn on animation mode (main canvas bottom right)
        3. Set the interpolation (next to animation mode button). Ease is often a good one
        4. Select a layer to edit (you can select multiple)
        5. Drag the nodes around to move them
        6. Congrats! You just animated those node from frame 0 to wherever your play head is on!

        Do keep in mind about some bugs while important Inkscape SVGs:

        • If you copied some objects from 1 Inkscape file to another, your gradients are likely broken
        • Clipping doesn’t work out of the box. Duplicate the lower layer, group it with the higher layer, set the higher layer’s composite method to “Straight Onto”

        There are a lot more small problems above those.