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within an area so that the animator doesn't have to draw shading into every single frame. There is also a wide variety of other real-time effects that can be applied to layers or groups of layers like radial blurs, color tweaks that all are
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The goal of the developers is to create a program that is capable of producing "feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources." The program offers an alternative to manual
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for "SINFG Is Not a Fractal Generator", referring to the software's capability of generating fractal imagery in addition to animation.
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Synfig began as the custom animation platform for Voria Studios (now defunct), and in 2005 was released as
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software. It is created by Robert Quattlebaum with additional contributions by Adrian Bentley.
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Much of the development of the tool since May 2008 has been in association with the
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characters of Ivan Tsarevich and Marya Morevna, specifically in the context of
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application, it is possible to design the animation in the front-end,
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so that the animator does not have to draw each and every frame.
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The software is capable of simulating soft-shading using curved
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images, and also a revision history of the project.
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Synfig Studio
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gtkmm
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Linux
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Type
Vector graphics editor
computer animation
License
GPL-2.0-or-later
synfig.org
free and open-source
vector
2D
animation
free
open source
GNU GPL-2.0-or-later
front-end and back-end
render farm

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