How to Animate using Synfig Studio (Quick Tutorial, Free program) 

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You're a beginner??? You sound like a rocket scientist to me with your knowledge of Synfig! I would love to be able to make animation like you have at the beginning of this video. I'm going to download Synfig and see if I can get something going. I Liked, Subscribed, and turned on Notifications (that's a hint for you to make more videos - ha ha!). Thank you for sharing!

I've been wanting to learn synfig for ages but without any decent tutorials it hasn't gone well. You are a hero! I do hope you will do a lot more.

Thank you for this tutorial. It's concise and moves at an appropriate pace without leaving out anything important. It's nice having a beginner friendly video made by someone who hasn't spent years and years doing it, making them forget what is and isn't common knowledge

This was sooo helpful! Thank you! Straight to the point to get quickly started. Thanks to you and the awesome developers of Synfig, I was able to make my very first animation. A dream come true!

I'm a beginner animator too (only ever animated in Scratch) and I was looking for a good tutorial on Synfig because it was the first vector animation one I found. This was really helpful, thanks!

Really great intro tutorial, Jess. Having had intermittent experience with other vector/bitmap drawing/animation tools over the years, I knew what I wanted to do, but wasn't familiar with the workflow in Synfig. You gave me enough to know where to start, and what I need to learn more about. Thanks!

i barely noticed you only had 276 subscribers (i'm one of them now) because this looks so professional and smooth. i'll be studying this app for online school this year and you are a life saver! Thank you~

This is pretty sweet! I've been looking for an Adobe Animate alternative. Thanks for sharing! 😁

I've been looking for a synfig tutorial all over and as soon as I saw one from a Critter I knew I was in good hands

Super helpful! An awesome Synfig how-to for anyone getting started with this tool. Gets to the details right away and covers a complete animation example, while giving just enough information on the way to let you know why you're doing each step. Thank yo so much for making and posting this!

Awesome tutorial. I've downloaded and started Synfig several times over the years, but the poor documentation always frustrated me. I learned more here than I ever did reading the docs. Thanks for taking the time to make it and post it.

Thank You so much for this tutorial. I have been struggling a lot with sinfyg but you have solved my problem completely.

Thanks much .. Just getting started (2 hrs) and I came back to yours to round things out .. really clear, thanks

This is a great tutorial. I see this is just like Gimp in the tool selection regions. I can now effectively use Gimp as well as Synfig thanks to your instructions, though you do go a little fast. Thankfully, I can slow down the video and run at my own pace. Thank you!! I want to use this tool to create animated Psychology videos to show my classes. Nicely done.

i have to animate for a project and i had no clue how to use synfig and this helped me so much, thank u endlessly

im glad there's examples of animations using synfig studio. all the other videos just explained how to use it and didnt show me the result.

A great tutorial showing the most important to start with. Very helpful, Thanks so much for sharing!

Thank you, you did a great job. I have 2 monitors so i was able to watch on one and work on the other. Don't understand why you have 12 down votes I thought you did a GREAT JOB teaching.

This tutorial is great, thank you! I want to animate some Inkscape drawings, so this gives me at least a starting point on how that works. I'd looked at a few tutorials before this and yours is the most straight forward.

Thank you so much!!! This genuinely helps, everything was covered to get started and just perfectly concise. Good are tutorials are rare. Thank you!

You're a lifesaver! looking forward to more of your tips and crash courses! Thanks a lot. Keep it up. :)

man you are a legend! You made this tutorial insane!!!

Such a great intro to the software, thanks a million!

Excellent tutorial, to the point yet very comprehensive - thank you!

wow you're 3x faster than the official tutor and I understand it way better

OMG yes EXACTLY what I was hoping for in a getting-started video!

Excellent tutorial! Will give this one a rewatch a few times as I try to make my first little short gifs :D

I just have downloaded this software now and your tutorial is really going to help me.

This was sooo well put together its an instant sub for me!!!

Thank you very much! You made something complex seem so simple and easy to understand.

very good tutorial for filtering and getting started THANK YOU...!

Thankyou for sharing. Your ability to explain things is very good

I learn much about synfig from this channel thank you so much for sharing.

Thank You so much I have learnt more from you TurtleArmy Jess. Keep it up and go on.

Perfect. This is what I was looking for.

THANK YOU! Synfig is much easier that after effects for me tbh and doesnt even overload my pc! so I'm grateful for this tutorial!

Well researched and concise.

thank you so much turtlearmy jess .... i was waiting to learn animate for so long and i found ur video

I love it man. It's really good and very much helpful for me

thanks. This tutorial is wonderful

Thankyou soooo much. I love how you get straight to the point.

Sweet, this is probably the best tutorial out there for synfig :I

Wow very knowledgeable indeed. Great free tool.

This is a very understandable and practical video! Thank you so much :D

Thank you so very very much for this tutorial. I still have a lot to learn but your video helped a lot learning the basics quick, easy and understandable :3 Have a great day ^^

Wooooo! Just what I needed! Very useful tips!

Best tutorial bro. I was looking for the work on yt.

this is pretty good i learned very well how to use synfig

Was looking for synfig tutorial and first thing I see here is critical role stuff: I am sold :)

This is super helpful, thank you!

I loved it. Thanks 😊

This is phenomenal! I just got into video making, but I'm using the Steam Deck so I'm locked into Linux programs, this is exactly what I was looking for!

Thanks, this was just what I was looking for. I'm on linux and synfig is the only software I have for vector animation.

Thank you, this was so helpful!

Nice Tutorial for Synfig beginners. 👍

Wow that's awesome! Keep up the great work!

this is the tutorial that I needed

cool video it helped out a ton with starting out and composing my first soft

Very good the way you explain good public speaking, speed of explanation and very good direction, you are able to develop video courses

Great tutorial, thank you !

thanks, great work for people who are on the go

thanks! this is really helpful for my subject!

Wow, great! A lot to take in, but I appreciate that!

Thank you so much TurtleArmy.

Great to start with the software for a total beginner! Made my first animation already!

Thanks a lot Algerian man was here watching your tutorial nice job well explained that was very helpful

Thankyou so much this is really so helpful!!! It's simple superb i love it!! ^w^

Omg your animation is aaaawwwwssssoooommeeee 💕💕💕

thank you so much for this!! very very helpful!

Thank you This exactly what am looking for to speed up my youtube journey. Thanks again

Thanks so much for making this :)

thank you for the first step of tutorial

Thats a really good tutorial!

Great tut! Thanks

Parabéns! Ótimo tutorial!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH I WAS SO CONFUSED AND MAD

Wow, good tutorial, my head exploded, Great!

Thanks a bunch, this helps a lot

Thank you SO Much! Very helpful

Awesome thanks! I'm trying to turn my niece's character art into little animation stories

yoo its so difficult this software id so powerful thx for the tutorial

Thx so much this really helped a lot!

This was made 3 years ago. But I thank you for the tutorial.

you should have thousands of subs ❤

0:34 Those words. Just amazing.

Thanks. This is exactly what I was looking for.

Excelent tutorial.

Thank you, you have solved how to use a reference file to be used in other new files without changing the reference file too! There is one thing though, If I want to change a thing in my reference character, like a shape of the eyes for examples, the change does not appear in the other files! Thank you!

Nice work .. thank you

So much information!

Thank you so much for having subtitles on your videos! You will be spared.

Great introduction:) I was looking for a vector based animation software 👍

please continue with synfig tutorials

you need more subs, this is so helpful

Thanks for the tutorial.

Just wanted something a lil bit capable and simple to run the social media side of the business, you and synfig are the missing part, may Allah bless you.

I am an avid Animate user but really want to get away from using it for new projects... the hardest step when all your assets are made in one program and that program happens to be what you use for everything is that finding then learning a new program is a really rough journey if you have little time to set aside. Synfig looks most appealing along with Krita which both have Linux support so I can gradually steer away from relying windows. This tutorial really helped me because the timeline is not very intuitive with Synfig to me compared to Animate where you can just start drawing frame after frame and it all starts to make sense! XD

2 second animation took 13 mins to complete... i'm gonna have fun animating 😩👍👌

Yeah, this helped me cause I wanna make an object show and I couldn't use Adobe animate cause I'm still a kid and can't pay monthly. Plus, I didn't wanna keep re-drawing something multiple times