# New Year cartoon (in russian)
**URL:** https://forums.synfig.org/t/new-year-cartoon-in-russian/16887
**Category:** Finished works
**Created:** [January 12, 2026, 4:49pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/new-year-cartoon-in-russian/16887 "2026-01-12T16:49:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@belomor\_news](https://forums.synfig.org/u/belomor_news)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2026, 4:49pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/new-year-cartoon-in-russian/16887/1 "2026-01-12T16:49:24Z")
https://www.youtube.com/embed/LWSJ0onVSPE?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque
Hi all!
I made my first cartoon in Synfig. I had to tinker.
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### Author:  [@robertojguerra](https://forums.synfig.org/u/robertojguerra)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2026, 6:43am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/new-year-cartoon-in-russian/16887/2 "2026-02-02T06:43:37Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@BobSynfig](https://forums.synfig.org/u/BobSynfig)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2026, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/new-year-cartoon-in-russian/16887/3 "2026-02-02T10:43:49Z")
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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### Author:  [@belomor\_news](https://forums.synfig.org/u/belomor_news)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2026, 7:21pm UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/new-year-cartoon-in-russian/16887/4 "2026-02-02T19:21:42Z")
Hi Roberto, thank you for attention!
> [@robertojguerra](#):
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> 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.
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](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:
> [@robertojguerra](#):
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> The blue flash and blue ice: did you make them appear and disappear with “Opacity” or something else?
Yes, just opacity. The effects were the easiest work in the project.
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### Author:  [@robertojguerra](https://forums.synfig.org/u/robertojguerra)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2026, 1:11am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/new-year-cartoon-in-russian/16887/5 "2026-02-03T01:11:04Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@BobSynfig](https://forums.synfig.org/u/BobSynfig)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2026, 8:32am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/new-year-cartoon-in-russian/16887/6 "2026-02-03T08:32:57Z")
Check [here](https://forums.synfig.org/t/joysticks-in-synfig-controller-plugin/12317) for example ^^
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### Author:  [@belomor\_news](https://forums.synfig.org/u/belomor_news)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2026, 9:27am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/new-year-cartoon-in-russian/16887/7 "2026-02-03T09:27:31Z")
> [@robertojguerra](#):
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> 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?
Now yes )
> [@BobSynfig](#):
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> Check [here](https://forums.synfig.org/t/joysticks-in-synfig-controller-plugin/12317) for example ^^
I’ll definitely try it at home.
Synfig getting closer to be game and vtube modelling software!
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### Author:  [@BobSynfig](https://forums.synfig.org/u/BobSynfig)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2026, 10:56am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/new-year-cartoon-in-russian/16887/8 "2026-02-03T10:56:28Z")
> [@belomor\_news](#):
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> 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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### Author:  [@belomor\_news](https://forums.synfig.org/u/belomor_news)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2026, 11:08am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/new-year-cartoon-in-russian/16887/9 "2026-02-03T11:08:14Z")
> [@BobSynfig](#):
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> This feature is expected to be available around year 2080-2085!
Synfig already has many advantages over Live2d, so you can take your time 😉