However, there is a bug, probably with the svg2sif extension and the time line is missing. Now that we have the Synfig file we open it and voilà, we can animate it. sif format (added by the svg2sif extension), and save it. With the model defined, we have to save it as Synfig format using the extension, so go to “Save a Copy…” and select the.

Here is the SVG if you are interested on it, sadly WordPress doesn’t support SVG files as media files. For this mini tutorial I created a black creature named Bor…ahem! Gishus Maximus: We start by creating an Inkscape object to be animated later. Now that we have the method defined, we will explain it by showing an example. I don’t know possible limitations of the svg2sif Inkscape extension, so use it with caution, don’t expect everything to work fine. In particular I tried an Inkscape extension named svg2sif which lets you save files in Synfig format and seems to work fine (the page of the extension explains how to install it). Luckily, the format is open and there are already some ways to transform from SVG to Synfig. However, it uses its own format, so you can’t directly import an SVG. It lets you create nice animations using a time line and key frames and lets you easily export the animation. Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation tool, it works with vector graphics as well.

If you make some modification on of the key frames, then you have to interpolate everything again. It has some ways to create interpolations of objects between two different states but it is unusable since it doesn’t work with groups, so if you have a complex object made of a group of several other objects, then you have to interpolate all of them.

However, it lacks of some features which would make it a great tool, for example, a way to animate objects by making interpolations of its different states defining key frames and using a time line, among others. Inkscape is one of the best open source, multi platform and free tools to work with vector graphics using the open standard SVG.Īfter some time using Inkscape, I have learned how to make a lot of things and feel great using it. In this blog post we want to share a method to animate Inkscape SVG objects using Synfig Studio, trying to follow a similar approach to the Building 2d sprites from 3d models using Blender blog post. Building 2d animations using Inkscape and Synfig

Inkscape drawings time lapse