Tools for Animation
- quinema-escalar: It increases the image’s resolution.
- quinema-sombra: It adds shadows to drawings in another layer.
- quinema-paleta: It extracts the palette used to paint a drawing.
- quinema-gimp-convert: It converts gimp formats to other formats (joining layers or not)
- quinema-video: It generates a video from a sequence of files (png, xcf, etc)
- quinema-lst: It generates a X-sheet to import to syfing.
- quinema-transparencia: It deletes the white background and leaves a transparency
- quinema-synfig: It make automatic project
Examples
Resize
Original Image
quinema-escalar -s 4 original.png escala-4.png
-s This parameter indicates the scale to increases (or resize) the image.
quinema-escalar -s 4 -p 160,1 original.png escala-4.png
-p This parameter removes a selected part and leaves a transparency.
Note: This program is very useful to scan in black and white (1 bit of colour) faster and to obtain an good resolution image for animation.
Shadows
quinema-sombra -p 1,1 j01.png sj01.png
It adds shadows and generates a xcf editable in layers.
cd trenzas quinema-sombra -p 1,1 .
It adds shadows and generates a xcf editable in layers for the complete directory.
Gimp Converter
quinema-gimp-convert j01.xcf j01-sombra.png It converts of xcf or psd to other formats.
Palette
quinema-gimp-convert j01-color.png > paleta.gpl
It extracts the palette for gimp, then we can use it with gmic to paint sequences of images.
Transparency
quinema-transparencia j01-color.png j01-color2.png It deletes the white background and leaves a transparency
List to synfig (X-Sheet)
cd trenzas quinema-lst This generates a X-sheet to import to synfig, named “trenzas.lst”
cd trenzas quinema-lst -i It does the same that the previous, but deduces the intervals between each frame, using artificial intelligence (**experimental*)
Preview video
It generates a video from a sequence of images.
cd trenzas quinema-video
The images must to be all inside the same directory and it must be named with a letter to the start and to continuation a series of numbers. For example: “j01.png” o “a001.xcf”
cd trenzas quinema-video trenzas.lst It generates a video from the X-sheet.
Generate Synfig Studio project
make a project
cd e5t2 quinema-synfig . > e5t2.sif
cd e5t2 quinema-synfig . | gzip -f - > e5t2.sifz
Final automatic scene
Download & install: github.com/4232/quinema