Animating Shinta

Artwork Finished works
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My first trial using Synfig. I use the rotation, translation, scaling, tweening and masking animation. And of course the powerful encapsulation.

This is the video :

youtu.be/Fk_Nc-fDd3Y

I draw the concept on a paper. Then I make the vector in InkScape and then load it in Synfig and animate it. The images can be seen here.

The original concept:

The vectorized image in InkScape:

Loaded vector in Synfig with Blur layer to make it looks like anime style:

Sources:
artediand.wordpress.com/2012/10/ … ng-shinta/
artediand.wordpress.com/2012/10/ … ng-shinta/

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I love the fact that she hasn’t got black outlines - although that works for many things I’ve always loved the softness of cartoons done without them and for Shinta it works perfectly.

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Thanks for commenting.

I am new to Synfig. I try to translate what I can do in Flash to Synfig.
Next time I will challenge myself to use outline.

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Although I think Synfig handles outlines much better than Flash, particularly since it has Advanced Outline layers, I still think Shinta looks nicer without outlines. She looks soft and dream-like.

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Very interesting style indeed.

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Thank you.

Advance outline truly rocks! I want to try to use it on my experiment next time.

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artediand, would you please request to post your work in the website Gallery? Once requested we can approve it and make it public.

Great stuff there!
-G

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Thank you. I will soon upload it.