Synfig Studio is a powerful open source application for creating high quality 2D animations with bitmap and vector graphics.

Synfig is a free and open-source software licensed under GNU GPL v3. The sources are available on GitHub. Synfig Studio, a free multi-platform animations creator which offers 2D designing tools. It comes with a sharp learning curve due to its Avant-grade feature and amazing outcomes which rely on helping the user in becoming a professional animation designer.

The program speeds up the animation process by removing the need to create each frame individually. Instead you can have Synfig Studio generate your frames itself by morphing from one image to another, or applying one or more transformations to individual shapes (rotation, scale etc).

Alternatively, if you'd like to use a frame-by-frame source, the program's tracing tools will help you convert it into vector shapes which you can then manipulate with its other tools.

Features include a comprehensive bone system, bitmap painting engine, path-based gradients, a wide range of layers ('geometric, gradients, filters, distortions, transformations, fractal and a few others'), while High Dynamic-Range Imaging reportedly delivers 'better lighting effects, and improved color composition'.

Version 1.3.6 changes include:

Verdict:

Synfig Studio is a versatile application which can help you produce anything from a simple web animation (move this object from here to there) to a professional film-quality animated movie. It's also vast and takes time and effort to learn, but if you have the motivation then there's plenty of high quality documentation to explore.

A portable industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software application

X-Synfig is a graphical design application that is used to create film quality 2D animations.

2D Animation has traditionally been very expensive because every frame must be drawn by hand. Even with today's digital inking and painting software, the process still relies on individuals hand-drawing each frame. This laborious task is called 'tweening'.

This animation technology eliminates the task of manual tweening, producing smooth, fluid motion without the animator having to draw out each frame individually.

X-Synfig allows you to produce 2D animation with fewer people while producing a product of a higher quality.

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New in X-Synfig 0.63.00:

• Advanced Outline Layer
• The most significant change in the new version delivers you improved control over the outlines. Now you can define outline width at any arbitrary point of the BLine. This functionality is available with the new layer type, called 'Advanced Outline'.
• Advanced Outline layer is created the same way as regular outline - using BLine Tool. Just make sure you have 'Create Advanced Outline BLine' option checked in the Tool Options Panel. Creating of Advanced Outlines using the Draw Tool is not possible by now - this feature is postponed for the further releases.

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Synfig Studio 2d Animation

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Windows 7 32/64 bit
Windows Vista
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38.5 MB

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