Close indeed… but the real difference, apart from the glitches, is time. Set up for the Natron version was done in minutes with no struggles.Rendering was super quick too… kind of unfair to say that as it was GPU rendered.
Struggles came with working out a way to keep the imported scroll text at the best resolution without the perspective deform degrading it. The SVG export for the scroll text had to be split into three sections. Native SVG import was a no go and should be worked on rather than having to export it from inkscape as a sif. Sif export from inkscape is going to break at some point too, as I was getting was errors on loading it until splitting the scroll into parts. Sif file size for each section exported was like 20meg a paragraph for an svg that was 300k in total.
Perspective tool for synfig seems to be scene resolution and bounding box dependent, similar to editors like kdenlive using mlt, compared to Natrons Corner Pin which gave me true infinity. If I switched off the gradient stencil the scroll text would just keep on going off into the distance forever.
Should of done a clean plate render of the Natron version without film grain as good old YouTube compression has blurred it.
Speaking of ‘unfair’ comparing Synfig and Natron for lack of a better comparison, is like comparing the default paint program on windows to something like photoshop. It’s leaps and bound ahead. No disrespect to Synfig obviously, just trying to make a point
but open source non the less… And apart from a python 3 shift and minor fixes, Natron has not had a major jump in 4 years, and the community around it is as small as Synfigs, if not less. But absolutely love both these underdogs.
Quick experiment over a couple of evenings looking at the best way to organize and animate a scene with sets.
This scene will evolve when I’ve got the spare time to do so and have already started with alternate angles and a couple of other iconic sets from the series.
I was going to link this scene for download. But on re-opening it this morning the whole thing had become corrupted, throwing up a lot of errors about bones. I only used 3 bones for one Display to control some slider movements, which goes off screen pretty quickly, but totally forgot that copying and pasting bones does not carry over link information… Equally tried to edit the scene manually trying to remove the element with brute force in a text editor… no joy bye bye scene.
Cheers sir, but there’s no need to. It was just a quick experiment while building up the scene, and Is the only thing that got messed up, and, as is, has moved on an evolved considerably since the other night.
Once I’ve finished a couple more bits, I’ll share the base scene for the bridge, character sheets and more on a separate thread to help show my process, and, in ways, share some of my production experiences through it.
Thanks for the offer of help… hope what I’m doing here will also help u guys at some point
just playing with silhouettes there… evolving the characters using simple shapes and build upon them while keeping in mind what software you’re using to animated through… so so all creative, concpets, explorations, sketches and studies are through synfig.
Quick Morning thought blast for in warp travel test. Monochromatic anim experiment.
Some old school element work and particle system for stardust. Trying to get more of a random feel to the streaks… Any thoughts appreciated.
bye bye scene.
mi luv e
