Synfig Demo Reel

A demo reel to showcase the capabilities of Synfig, and generate interest in the community of artists and coders to use and improve Synfig. This is a compilation of existing artwork created by Synfig community members who granted permission for their works to be used for this Demo Reel. See the credits for the artists names.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Synfig
• demo
• demoreel
• animation
• cartoon

[pxegeek]

Anyone know why this video is so popular in France? Nearly 90% of the views are from there. 

[martifingers]

Anyone know what this music is?

[pxegeek]

@martifingers It's listed in the credits :)

[Ausut]

Is Synfig anything like After Effects? I'm thinking of switching to Ubuntu but my last concern is that Photoshop and After Effects don't run on Linux systems. Any reply is appreciated. :)

[pxegeek]

@Ausut You _could_ use Synfig to replicate some of the tasks you might use After Effects for. It will allow you to composite special effects on your videos, but if you're going for a full length features, or lot of special effects, then you might want to look into something more suited to editing video as the main focus of its functionality.

[sachteau]

that's nice, but if I were you would play less with stationary frames and go to the animated shorts. ;)  Synfig is great and it rocks!

[UnboredSpectator]

Awesome! Especially that it's open source!

[jmalmsten]

ahh,,, ummm so a bunch of stills and then some basic cutout... after downloading the software and trying it out I'm totally flabergasted that anyone did even basic stuff like that... Like, why is it that as soon I click the canvas, the toolbox panel disappear underneath it?! This is basic stuff... I don't want to have to minimize the canvas each time I want another tool.

[isaacahloe]

@Ausut blender is a better after effect replacement, it hase a video editor and a node compositor with keyframeable attributes and such. It's incredibly powerful.

[hackerdeehack]

synfig is the best!!!!

[snowex0]

I've just installed it some time ago, lets hope it's not hard to use >.<

[testingte]

@Ausut Cinelerra is difficult to get the hang of, once/if you do, it will be highly worth it!

Kdenlive is more of a Sony Vegas than an AE, and there are some things that you won't be able to pull off.

If all you wish are simple tasks such as chroma keying though, you could probably stick with Kdenlive.

[Ausut]

@testingte Thanks for the tip. I found that Kdenlive is pretty close to what I need. Cinelerra seemed a bit messy to me at first, if I remember correctly, but I'll give it another go.

[testingte]

@Ausut best alternative to AE for Linux is Cinelerra

Synfig (to my knowledge at least) is probably more like Flash than AE

Meant for 2d animation