Had a quick read of the stickified topics on the top of this section of the forum and thought I better post before being pruned… (I’m too old to have any parts pruned off please).
I’m human, I’m real and I probably have as much trouble deciphering “captchas” as a bot but I’m not a bot. 
Anyhow, hello and I have just downloaded Synfig after reading BashBosh’s recommendation on this page