Tutorials
From Synfig Studio :: Documentation
This is an index of all of the tutorials for Synfig Studio.
Tutorial Name | Description |
Getting Started [PDF] | New to Synfig Studio? This tutorial will help you get the gist of things |
Animation Basics | Introduction to making things move, the timeline, and the keyframe dialog. |
Adding Layers | Introduction to the Layers palette, and basics of compositing. |
Creating Shapes | Introduction to making shapes using the bline and normal tools. |
How do I...? | Quickie tutorials, and commonly-needed tasks. |
Timonator's newbie tutorial with pictures! | a WIP tutorial with lots of screenshots. |
Flower Animation | A beginner tutorial, showing animation with blines. It could be a good tutorial to follow, after the Animations Basics one. |
Following a BLine | A tutorial showing how to make a layer follow a BLine rotating to face the direction it's moving in |
Building a magnifying glass [PDF] | A tutorial showing how to build a magnifying glass. |
Walk Cycle | Tutorial showing import of multiple still frames, and rotoscoping to generate a walk cycle animation |
Reuse Animations | Tutorial that explains how to reuse "poses" of portions of the scene without interfere on the rest of it |
Building a magnifying glass(new) [PDF] | A tutorial showing how to build a magnifying glass. |
Switching Scenes | Tutorial that explains how to edit a collection of .sif files together and switch back and forth between them. |
See Also
General animation tutorial links: