Animation is a robust field with a large number of specialties and an even larger number of tools for creating a particular look or style. In the past two months, I've covered for hand-drawn digital cel animation and for stop motion animation. There are many more animation applications out there, not the least of which is for 3D animation and all manner of hybrids (check out how some users are abusing the Grease Pencil tool for animation or the excellent effect), GIMP Animation Plugin,, the recently open-sourced, and many more. I can't review every animation application (at least, not all at once), so the last animation suite I'll look at this year is.

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Synfig Studio is a 'tweenless' animation system designed to speed up the animation process by using sprites and digital tweening rather than adding to the illustration workload. For this reason, it's ideal for a solo artist or a small animation team.

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Installing Your distribution might package Synfig in its repository, but be sure to directly from upstream. The Synfig site offers.rpm,.deb, and generic.tar packages. If you download an.rpm or.deb, then use your system's package manager to install them as usual.

If you download the.tar file, just untar, place into a sensible directory such as '~/bin,' and run synfigstudio. Interface The layout of Synfig is probably familiar to anyone who's used an animation application before or even a graphics application in general. The upper left panel holds your tools, the central panel your canvas, and the bottom panel the timeline and keyframes. Property panels appear along the right.

Before starting, go to the Canvas menu in the menu bar and select Properties (or press F8 on your keyboard). In the properties window, enter your desired canvas size. You might want to start with 1920x1080 (1080 HD) if you've got a moderately powerful computer, or lower if you're on a less powerful computer. Generally, I feel safer working at one resolution greater than my target if my computer lets me, on the theory that it will future-proof my work, but obviously your target determines how necessary that is. Also in the Properties window is the amount of time you want your timeline to contain.

Time units for animation are frames, and what that translates to in human time depends on how many frames per second your animation plays. The more frames per second you use, the smoother the animation looks, but you're also managing and rendering many more frames. For this demo, I'll use the slower frame rate of 16fps and a total timeline length of 128 frames just to keep numbers low. Once you've set your project properties, save your file. Drawing and Importing In order to animate, you need assets. Synfig has several drawing tools included, but most users I've ever seen use Synfig seem to prefer to draw elsewhere and then import their assets. Synfig doesn't require it, but the idea behind its animation technique is the old 'paper cutout' principle, as you may have seen in Terry Gilliam's famous 'Monty Python' interludes or in the 'South Park' television series — each element that you want animated is an object that gets 'pinned' to a rig, allowing you to record each movement you make on the rig.