Do I need to draw the front, back , side and 3/4 of the character I want to animate?

You need to draw everything :wink: This is not a 3D software, you can do like paper-cut animation with bitmaps (images) or trace everything as vector and then move the poisition of vertices. It is up to you.

Thanks. I asked an AI and it said only the front. I sure hope the world doesn’t decide to depend on AI.

Depending your type of animation, you could do only the front and use some controlers like here : [image] Joysticks in Synfig (Controller Plugin) Plugins Hello, I saw this plugin in After Effects called Joysticks and Sliders, Basically, you create 5 extreme poses (normal…

Thanks so much. I’m in charge of animation and drawing for my husbands YouTube channel. I thought I would have years before he reached 250 subscriptions, but what do you know, he now has 192 and I have to get off my rear and learn all this stuff to animate his special video.

How many sides of a character do I need

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BobSynfig July 31, 2024, 11:03am 4

Depending your type of animation, you could do only the front and use some controlers like here :

But for most of the cases, you have to do everything yourself