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=== Goal ===
Produce a demo reel for display on Youtube, revver, etc to showcase the capabilities of Synfig, and generate interest in the community of artists and coders to use and improve Synfig.  Ideally the whole video could be produced in Synfig (excluding audio).  

=== Proposed screenplay ===
Unless otherwise stated the source is from the Synfig examples.  There seems to be a recurring theme of 'eyes' here, so the tentative working title is 'The Eye's have it'.  

==== Introduction ====
Open with 
* Cutscene by genete

then an animated figure synched to some speech - "Welcome to the Synfig Demo Reel" (I have something in the works for this one)

Either - Cover the basics - shapes, lines, filters, distortions, transforms, etc, or just launch straight into a slide show of still images.

: For this step you could add some stills (or capture videos) of close ups of the GUI using he main important synfig features (parameter list, keyframes, navigator, waypoints, gradients, effects, curves...)--[[User:Genete|Genete]] 13:30, 21 November 2007 (EST)

==== Stills ====

* Gradients.sif
* wallpaper/backdrop.sif
Some combination of zooming in and out on the eyes of the following to demonstrate that Synfig is vector based and looks good at any resolution:-
* Rore's Cat
* Tux
* prologuekid.sif
* pirate.sif
* Macwolfen.sif
* New Julia/newjulia2.sif


Transition to -

==== Animations ====
* mandelbrot.sif
* cells.sif
* noise.sif
* z_depth test.sif - deleted (we have better animations)
* warpcube.sif
* Preamble taffy.sif - deleted (we have better animations)
* Rotating gears by dooglus http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ljmQARJccYk
* underwater by Ulrik http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=j7fO-1V_IFA
* plant growing by Ulrik http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UqeUOrAoziE
* room by Ulrik http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UWxj9NenDTE
* eye.sif http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nAYdf-CJwPo
* Eyes (by Madsen - he already gave us permission to use it in a demo reel)
* Synfig trailer by StephanMorin http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7q2jN3qcOcM
* Flowers by AkhIL
* Mouse by AkhIL
* Sy'n'fig by Zelig http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bySt14ufRmU
* boot.sif by pxegeek - Call to action help stamp out bugs in Synfig

* Credits
* links to Prologue, Werewolf, Light pen

==== Various transitions ====
* handwritten 'synfig' by dooglus ([http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=djk4B_GiN-Q&NR=1 YouTube] | [[Media:Handwriting.sifz|sifz]])
* Lightning by genete
* Eclipse by AkhIL

==== Other thoughts ====
Need clearance from the copyright holders for the use of these works.  Please comment if it's OK or if you don't want your work used.
: It's OK to use any of my animations -- [[User:Dooglus|dooglus]] 04:12, 30 October 2007 (EDT)
: It's ok to use any of my animations and music at [http://www.musikboden.se/mymusic/mymusic.html my site] -- [[User:Ulrik|ulrik]] 05:29, 30 October 2007 (EDT)
: It's OK to use Sy 'n' Fig. That's why I created it; to promote Synfig!  -- [[User:Zelig|zelig]] 20:28, 10 November 2007 (PST) [[http://www.hoodyhoo.com/toons | sources]]

http://dooglus.rincevent.net/synfig/logs/2007/%23synfig-2007-11-21.log
 16:30 < pxegeek> 'morning rore
 16:31 < pxegeek> Did I ever ask you if we could use your cat picture in the demo reel?  
 16:41 < rore> pxegeek: maybe you did, I don't remember, but sure you can use it ;)

: It's OK to use any of my animations :) --[[User:Genete|Genete]] 13:14, 21 November 2007 (EST)

http://dooglus.rincevent.net/synfig/logs/2008/%23synfig-2008-04-04.log
 07:01  * AkhIL proposes his mouse, eclipse and flower to demoreel
 07:05 < pixelgeek> AkhIL: would definitely welcome mouse, eclipse and flowers
 07:06 < pixelgeek> Could we render a version without the text?
 07:06 < AkhIL> yes
 07:06 < AkhIL> are you have sources?
 07:07 < pixelgeek> AkhIL: no 
 07:08 < pixelgeek> I could probably find the ones you've linked, but if you have the links handy...
 07:08 < AkhIL> I'll reshare it

Music?   If some of the more musical amongst us are willing to share their music - 
* Madsen has some funky music that I can't begin to describe, and some nice electronic stuff also (e.g. http://laxness101.lillesvin.net/strg/lax-Lay.mp3). 
** try^d has a song that is similar to this as well: http://www.jamendo.com/en/download/track/26747 [[User:JavaJake|JavaJake]]
* Ulrik has some accordian music that may not be to everyone's taste ;) and some great piano music at http://www.musikboden.se/mymusic/solopiano/solopiano.html  (yes, I'm biased - I only try to play piano).   
* If we want to go up tempo, Ceox has some nice synth music that I think would work well. (Oxysphere?)
* I could make a new song for the reel by making a whole new song or making customized versions of older songs. Regards, Ceox
What did I miss?