Tutorials

This is an index of all of the tutorials for Synfig Studio.

Tutorial Name	Description
Getting Started [PDF]	New to Synfig Studio? This tutorial will help you get the gist of things
Animation Basics	Introduction to making things move, the timeline, and the keyframe dialog.
Adding Layers	Introduction to the Layers palette, and basics of compositing.
Creating Shapes	Introduction to making shapes using the bline and normal tools.
How do I...?	Quickie tutorials, and commonly-needed tasks.
Timonator's newbie tutorial with pictures!	a WIP tutorial with lots of screenshots.
Flower Animation	A beginner tutorial, showing animation with blines. It could be a good tutorial to follow, after the Animations Basics one.
Following a BLine	A tutorial showing how to make a layer follow a BLine rotating to face the direction it's moving in

See Also

• Keyboard Shortcuts

• General animation tutorial links:

keith lango's tutorials [[1]]

The Animation Drawing Course at The Animation Archive [[2]]

Lip Sync [[3]]