I asked because I need to find an “animation” software for a 1 time project, because I want to make something similar to what nethertales did, but with the ease of using PNGs and my touch screen laptop… animating in real time.
I didn’t mean it as “would have been better if…”
You would need to record in real time the position of the input connected to the touch screen (I miss my old Asus N550 for this ^^).
I don’t know how to do it under Windows, but you could register the events with python-evdev and apply it with an “animation from file” converter.
Could be done with the trackpad or even a Wacom tablet in touch mode.
The only similar “affordable” thing that I found is a feature of Cartoon Animator 5, depending on what you could invest (and if you get commission for this project), it is quite cheap (and we could get inspiration from it for some feature ^^)
Do not become addicted to water my friends…
Made this little short on the SteamDeck (until PC prices become more reasonable I left to play around on my trusty SD). Steam OS has its own quirks, for example some appimages don’t work. Papagayo appimages and some older versions of Synfig will not work. The last version of Synfig 1.5.5 does work and also there is an older flatpack in their software store that works. As for Papagayo I managed to get the windows v1.4.0 working in the Heroic Launcher, it would probably work with Lutris.
It was surprisingly stable… not a single crash. Audacity for audio and Kdenlive for video editing.
Great work 
Synfig-to-kdenlive: do you use mp4 or sequence of PNGs to transfer the animation?
PNGs. It makes more sense to edit “image sequence PNGs” in Kdenlive so that the final video doesn’t undergo 3 video compressions (first Synfig, then Kdenlive and whatever site you post it on). The video will get recompressed on sites like YouTube.
So I uploaded a 1080x1920 - 6,25 MB video
If I download it back from YouTube it’s 720x1280 - 2,56 MB
If I download it back from TikTok it’s 578x1024 - 1,33 MB
If I download it back from Instagram (using gramsnap.com) - 720x1280 - 2,06 MB
Maybe their algorithms decided the video was simple so it could do with a bit more compression.
Edit:
Out of curiosity I went on my TV app and Youtube shows that video on 480p (probably makes sense since it’s a vertical video playing on a horizontal screen), and on my phone it does say it’s 1080p 
You can render in x264 lossless, it does not alter the quality (but lacks transparency) 
Also it’s lighter than the sequence of PNG
It’s about family
I was thinking … what is something nice I can say that is true for 99% of fathers? And by God, I think I did reach that 99% level of accuracy with this one.
This little piece of poetry made my day!
Movie recommendation - A Lonely Man Makes a Friend
Smells like a soap opera
Great job nethertales 
People used to paid in salt… now look at us.
Next round, the sugar, with diabetes, destruction of collagen via glycation and of course, tooth decay 
destruction of collagen via glycation
Well … that was an interesting / scary read on the train today.
I used to pick salty treats instead of sugary snacks because I used to think they were healthier 
. Most people know too much sugar is bad, but too much salt? What does that do? It’s easy to get blind sided by salt … or the lack of protein or fiber or some kind of deficiency - calcium, iron… whatever.
Did you ever see that movie - The island - Ewan McGregor pees in morning and the toilet tells him what to eat fallowing day. Why hasn’t anybody invent that? Forget teleportation and tricorders, give me the analytic talking toilet.
The dose makes the poison.
– Paracelsus
Fun fact: Paracelsus believed that the principles sulphur, mercury, and salt contained the poisons contributing to all diseases. (Wikipedia)
Considering that our cells work under specific physico-chemical conditions with constant supplies, there is no surprise that a lack or an excess is dangerous for this balance.
Also consider the fact that we are complex organisms which have enhanced radically the survival of these cells: it is a giant multi-system of buffers, distribution of nutrients and evacuation of wastes.
Sodium of salt and potassium are a lot used in a pair.
But the main effect of excess of salt is raising blood pressure, which damages hearts and vessels, especially when they are already rigidified (by sugar/cholesterol/calcium déposit)
Excess of salt and wastes ? Removed by the kidneys (recycling most of the water).
Storage of calcium in the bones (needed for nervous system among others)
Excess of sugar in blood? Stored in the liver and muscles, and if too much, transformed as fat (for later), but in case of diabetes it does damages everywhere by glycation.
About protein, well, no “classic” storage, either used directly of eliminated or converted as fat (that why it is better to do sports and grow muscles, they can be degraded back as a source of amino-acids later)
Iron? Mostly recycled in the spleen (but women are subject to bigger needs of intake )
Fibers are used to feed the good bacteries in our guts (who help us to digest and transform the nutrients so we can use them). Note that we have a secondary autonomous nervous system in our guts to manage the digestion!
And globally (animal) fat is healthier that sugar, even with cholesterol (in fact, its our big bowel which produce cholesterol, sometimes in excess, not the food intake)
I used to explain my colleagues that we were like coral, cells around mineral skeleton, the only difference was that we added a system of locomotion to go and find food because we can’t wait for it to come to us like in the sea.
And we are like an embedded ecosystem.
Our biggest problem is not the lack but the excess …
We are marvelous system of recycling and survival, made to get by with only little supplies.
But our brain is still working in survival mode and brings us pleasure when we “find” rare and energetic nutrients like salt, sugar and fatty things, which in fact are now abondant in food … and pushing the machine to its limits !
And for the toilets analyzing the urin … it exists U-Scan | Withings
The topic is huge and you can do dozens of videos ^^
Update to the dystopian world we live in.
I didn’t want to put ears on my Parody Big Brother because I felt it looked too silly, but looking at those big ears … 
I have my doubts.
XD very nice XD
I see that you used papagayo… but what text to speech can sing like that, in “Salt will kill us all”?
That’s just my terrible singing 
Still, good vocal quality 