“...That was the original idea from day one - the elimination of the tweening process. But it is certainly not the only feature of Synfig that makes it unique. In addition to eliminating the tweening process, I also wanted Synfig to be used for pretty much every part of production except story-boarding and editing.”
Scripts & Tools
Gimp2Synfig
A GIMP plugin for converting GIMP images to the SIF format by Il'dar Akhmetgaleev (AkhIL).
- Homepage: http://synfig.org/wiki/Gimp2synfig
- OS: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
Multilayer rendering tool
Script for rendering .sif file layers as separate files. Written by Il'dar Akhmetgaleev (AkhIL).
- Download: synfiglayer-20080209.tar.gz
- OS: Linux
Remake
Utility that helps you render complex animations. Complex animation is usualy consist of several scenes and their content located in many files, which are dependent one to another. When you modify some file it's often hard to determine what needs to be re-rendered. Remake takes care about tracking dependencies between changed files and automaticaly re-renders sources of your animation affected by the change.
- Homepage: http://github.com/morevnaproject/remake
- OS: Linux
Nautilus Scripts
Images to LST file: This script takes a list of images and creates a lst file to be imported to Synfig Studio as a sequence of images. Thanks to David Rylander (Rylleman).
- Homepage: http://rylanderanimation.se/2009/07/28/synfig-images-to-lst-file/
- OS: Linux (Gnome)
Render to png: This script takes a sif(z) file and renders a png image sequence at the same file folder. Thanks to David Rylander (Rylleman).
- Homepage: http://rylanderanimation.se/2009/10/09/synfig-render-script/
- OS: Linux (Gnome)
SIF exporter extension for Inkscape
Inkscape extension that converts SVG files to Synfig Studio (.sif) format. Written by Nikita Kitaev (nikitakit).
- Homepage: https://github.com/nikitakit/svg2sif
- Download: svg2sif.zip, svg2sif.tar.gz
- OS: Linux, Mac OSX, Windows (Inkscape)