Introduce yourself with a little information about yourself, not too personal, but your artist or maybe just real name, your country, how long have you been interested in synfig? , what made you use synfig?
Promote your work, website, channel here too. Who knows we may find some great artists here.
Why did you choose synfig over other softwares?
Are you a professional or just doing it for fun?
If you were given a chance to switch to a professional grade paid software for free for lifetime, would you leave synfig forever?
(This is not officially a post by synfig mods obviously, just felt with the sheer amount of dumbness I see on web these days, it’s better to just inform)
I remember to one IT class assignment teacher wanted us to have one vector animation (that’s how I learned about vector animations). I went home, started looking for free programs and that’s how I found Synfig.
BTW I didn’t do that assignment in the end, it was really big and later it became optional
They sadly never taught me animation in IT classes here, we rather learned about networking, SQL, and more different entrepreneurship related stuff that involves technology, hence the name information technology. However once I switched to computer science, we did do a lot of graphic designing, even though nobody was going to pursue graphic designing after deciding to become an engineer, we were in 11th grade at that time.
I never made a notebook for IT in my school days, turns out the teacher only checks the practicals, and how well you do in tests, it was all required to do well in his classes. Even the tests didn’t really matter that much, except academically, he was one of the very better teachers who understood, someone may not write well in exams, but they can still do good in real life. He acknowledged real skills not a piece of paper.
My name is Victor Wachanga From Kenya. I like art and i love to do art. I’m a hobbyist artist. I just came across synfig not long ago. Its been about two weeks since i started using it after losing my more capable PC to a power surge. since i only have a mid-range PC now, i had to abandon Blender temporarily. I did a little research online and came across Synfig and sure its one of the best if not the best free software for 2D animation out there.
I specifically chose synfig over other softwares because it does not lag and has pretty much all the features i need to animate texts, logos, and short clips.
I am currently doing it for fun but i plan on doing it professionally and posting clips on my newly-opened Youtube channel - Pukka Studios -https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCuSCtPhWVL6BC4bMWurMmA .
I would consider switching to professional-grade software if i had to use a feature that Sinfig doesnt have. However, i would be more interested in collaborating with developers in future so that we can advance Synfig and help more artists get on board.