Hi all!
I made my first cartoon in Synfig. I had to tinker.
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It looks very nice 
I understood it with the google translate app.
How did you change the rear hand pose from palm-down to palm-up? (time=10s) Same qustion for Santa’s, and the woman’s head.
How did you animate his mouth and eyes?
The blue flash and blue ice: did you make them appear and disappear with “Opacity” or something else?
Youtube can do auto-caption from voice and translate them on the fly 
For the palm, he probably used a Switch Layer (grouped with the arm).
For the glow and ice, the effects were surely grouped with the stick and the character to follow their moves and playing with Opacity.
I like a lot the fact that the lights in the tree are glowing at diffrent moment according the color, like it is often the case!
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Hi Roberto, thank you for attention!
I used Switch Layers. That is, a fixed image for each pose. For the each face expression too. It is explained very well here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmmeqxb1D2U
You can even do 360-degree rotation, but the fewer intermediate frames there are, the rougher the animation will be. For example:
The face expressions is a switch layer inside each head angle switch layer. That is, nested.
Mouth sound positions is just expressions too. Lipsync is handmade, not very neatly. Eye movement is a simple XY position animation. Closed, wide open, half open and default eyes is a switch layers again.
All movements of the body, head and limbs are made using skeletal animation. Like this:
Yes, just opacity. The effects were the easiest work in the project.
Thank you for the explanation
I know skeletal animation… but I never added a switch object to select different drawings
I need this for a character in 3/4 view 
do you know if this switch object can be controlled by a “master controller”? (A group of buttons and sliders that you create on the side of the viewport?
Check here for example ^^
Now yes )
I’ll definitely try it at home.
Synfig getting closer to be game and vtube modelling software!
This feature is expected to be available around year 2080-2085!
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Synfig already has many advantages over Live2d, so you can take your time