Synfig
Synfig
is a vector based 2D animation package. It is designed to be capable of
producing feature-film quality animation.
The software eliminates the need for
tweening, preventing the need to hand-draw each frame.
Synfig can be used for all aspects of the production
of animations except story-boarding and editing. It has a powerful
high-dynamic-range
compositing system which allows users to add all sorts of special
effects and shading directly in the software while maintaining spacial
and
temporal resolution independence.
Synfig stores its animations in a non-standard
xml-based-format, which includes natively vector graphics and
additionally raster graphics, referenced to external stored bitmaps.
Features include:
- Standard tools for freehand drawing: Draw shapes, select
colours, fill areas etc
- Spatial resolution-independence
- Temporal resolution independence - use of keyframes to
reduce the workload
- Pentablet-friendly tools
- Path-based Gradients
- Supports a multitude of layers of various types; geometric,
gradients, filters, distortions, transformations, fractal and a few
others
- Simulating soft-shading using curved gradients within an
area
- Wide variety of real-time effects which are added via layers
- Control and animate the width of lines
- Link any related data from one object to another
- Saves to animated graphic formats like MNG and GIF
- Output targets include JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, PPM, DV,
OpenEXR, ffmpeg (MPEG1), libavcodec (AVI), imagemagick (MIFF), yuv420p,
MNG and others
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