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
Building a magnifying glass [PDF]	A tutorial showing how to build a magnifying glass.
Walk Cycle	Tutorial showing import of multiple still frames, and rotoscoping to generate a walk cycle animation
Reuse Animations	Tutorial that explains how to reuse "poses" of portions of the scene without interfere on the rest of it

See Also

• Keyboard Shortcuts

General animation tutorial links:

Keith Largo Tutes

The Animation Drawing Course at The Animation Archive

Lip Sync