Synfig How To: Bones Trick for Cut-Out Character

Quadro Chave is the Bomb!

Quadro Chave’s nice enough to have their Synfig discoveries online on Vimeo. While watching their videos, I picked up a wonderful gem for making some order and controlling your character. Special thanks goes out to all their hard work in helping making sense of this wonderfully deep program.

Create a New Bone Paste Canvas Layer

This is pretty simple. Just copy each rotation layer and paste it into a new Paste Canvas layer that you create. Call your new Paste Canvas layer ‘Bones.’ It’s an easy way to have access to all your rotations at a glance. If you want to check it out in action, check out their video. It’s pretty cool and extremely easy. I opened up Thumbalina and created a ‘Bone’ Paste Layer for her. Great idea!