A couple of weeks ago I saw an advertisement for an event on Google Plus. It was for an animation workshop using open-source software presented by Ricardo Graça. The only problem is that the workshop will be held in Rio. They will be capturing the upcoming event on video but the lecture will be in Portuguese. […]
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Did you ever do something stupid like drive your car for two weeks with the emergency brake on without realizing it, resulting in a damaged car and emotional psyche? A similar thing happened to me with Synfig this week but the only problem was that the emergency brake was not in clear sight and it
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Synfig now has the capability of creating switch layers. If you’ve never heard of switch layers before, it’s great for cut-out characters. The gist is simple. What you can do is have a folder of mouths or hands that you can easily change out during while timing the animation. Free-for-all To do my part and
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Today I made some headway and was able to finish Misty’s hand positions for her front view. I think that I’ll be able to reuse the hands for other views of Misty. Make the different hands actually didn’t take very long. While I was working on Misty’s hands, I also took a crack at redoing
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I was introduced to GIT over a year ago by a fellow Synfig user and programmer extraordinaire, Lungching. Last week he demoed the benefits of GIT to our animation group. It really opened up my eyes to having version control without hundreds of saved versions of the same file. If you haven’t tried GIT, definitely
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In between working on Misty’s new feet and poses over the past weekend. I started trying out different clothing options for Misty. The cover up I’ve been working on Misty as a character for some time now. When I work in public spaces like Starbucks, I feel kind of like a perv. It’s sad that
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While I was working on all of Misty’s different poses in Synfig, I got sidetracked and started playing in a sweet open source painting program called MyPaint. Painting tool for an artist That pretty much sums up MyPaint—it’s a wonderful tool designed for artists. The simple interface and ease of use make MyPaint a breeze.
It’s been a while since writing an entry or working in Synfig, and now I’m back doing both. I missed using Synfig over the past few months. For this first post back, I wanted to explain something that I figured out that’s obvious to me now, but for a long time has escaped me. I
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Underwear-clad Misty Misty, the character that I’ve been working on for my first Synfig animation, has been only dressed in under garments since her inception. I know that I want a 50s/60s look for her, but so far I haven’t come up with anything. A couple of weeks ago, I was playing around with ideas
Stanly Cumberbun is the new character on the block So with all the work on Misty, I thought that I can’t be the only man in her life. I came up with a new man by the name of Stanly Cumberbun. I’m not sure what his character is going to be like. I’m thinking of
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