# quinema: pixel animation tools for synfig

**URL:** https://forums.synfig.org/t/quinema-pixel-animation-tools-for-synfig/3917
**Category:** Plugins
**Created:** [June 22, 2016, 2:49am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/quinema-pixel-animation-tools-for-synfig/3917 "2016-06-22T02:49:19Z")
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### Author: ![bazza](https://forums.synfig.org/user_avatar/forums.synfig.org/bazza/32/3852_2.png) [@bazza](https://forums.synfig.org/u/bazza)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2016, 2:49am UTC](https://forums.synfig.org/t/quinema-pixel-animation-tools-for-synfig/3917/1 "2016-06-22T02:49:19Z")

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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

[![](https://github.com/4232/quinema/raw/master/img/original.png)](https://github.com/4232/quinema/blob/master/img/original.png)

Original Image

[![](https://github.com/4232/quinema/raw/master/img/escala-4.png)](https://github.com/4232/quinema/blob/master/img/escala-4.png) `
quinema-escalar -s 4 original.png escala-4.png 
`

-s This parameter indicates the scale to increases (or resize) the image.

[![](https://github.com/4232/quinema/raw/master/img/escala-4-p.png)](https://github.com/4232/quinema/blob/master/img/escala-4-p.png) `
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

[![](https://github.com/4232/quinema/raw/master/img/j01.png)](https://github.com/4232/quinema/blob/master/img/j01.png) [![](https://github.com/4232/quinema/raw/master/img/sj01.png)](https://github.com/4232/quinema/blob/master/img/sj01.png) `
quinema-sombra -p 1,1 j01.png sj01.png 
`

It adds shadows and generates a xcf editable in layers.

[![](https://github.com/4232/quinema/raw/master/img/j01-sombra.png)](https://github.com/4232/quinema/blob/master/img/j01-sombra.png) `
cd trenzas quinema-sombra -p 1,1 . 
`

It adds shadows and generates a xcf editable in layers for the complete directory.

Gimp Converter

```auto
quinema-gimp-convert j01.xcf j01-sombra.png 
```

It converts of xcf or psd to other formats.

Palette

[![](https://github.com/4232/quinema/raw/master/img/j01-color.png)](https://github.com/4232/quinema/blob/master/img/j01-color.png) `
quinema-gimp-convert j01-color.png > paleta.gpl 
`

It extracts the palette for gimp, then we can use it with [gmic](https://archive.org/details/pixicast_2016-06-01) to paint sequences of images.

Transparency

```auto
quinema-transparencia j01-color.png j01-color2.png 
```

It deletes the white background and leaves a transparency

List to synfig (X-Sheet)

```auto
cd trenzas quinema-lst 
```

This generates a X-sheet to import to synfig, named “trenzas.lst”

```auto
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.

[![](https://github.com/4232/quinema/raw/master/img/trenzas.gif)](https://github.com/4232/quinema/blob/master/img/trenzas.gif) `
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”

```auto
cd trenzas quinema-video trenzas.lst 
```

It generates a video from the X-sheet.

Generate Synfig Studio project

make a project

[![](https://github.com/4232/quinema/raw/master/img/quinema-synfig-composicion.png)](https://github.com/4232/quinema/blob/master/img/quinema-synfig-composicion.png) [![](https://github.com/4232/quinema/raw/master/img/quinema-synfig.png)](https://github.com/4232/quinema/blob/master/img/quinema-synfig.png) `
cd e5t2 quinema-synfig . > e5t2.sif 
` `
cd e5t2 quinema-synfig . | gzip -f - > e5t2.sifz 
`

[![](https://github.com/4232/quinema/raw/master/img/e5t2.gif)](https://github.com/4232/quinema/blob/master/img/e5t2.gif)

Final automatic scene

Download & install: [github.com/4232/quinema](https://github.com/4232/quinema)