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To simplify the work of animating a cartoon about a mouse, a plug-in for the raster editor [http://gimp.org GIMP] has been written, to allow the direct exporting of multi-layered images to corresponding layers of the 2D animation package Synfig.
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To simplify the work of animating my cartoon about a mouse, a plug-in for the [http://gimp.org/ GIMP] raster editor has been written to allow the direct exporting of multi-layered images to corresponding layers of the 2D animation package Synfig.
  
 
The plug-in registers itself in the GIMP image menu <image>-> File-> Export-> Synfig.
 
The plug-in registers itself in the GIMP image menu <image>-> File-> Export-> Synfig.
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For it to work, GIMP must support Python, and the most recent version of Python must be fully installed.  
 
For it to work, GIMP must support Python, and the most recent version of Python must be fully installed.  
  
To install it, simply place the file in ~/.gimp-*/plug-ins/.
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To install it, simply place the file in ~/.gimp-*/plug-ins/ and make it executable (chmod +x synfigexport.py), then restart The GIMP.
  
 
This program is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Distribution and updating of the code is welcomed.
 
This program is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Distribution and updating of the code is welcomed.

Revision as of 12:49, 31 January 2008

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To simplify the work of animating my cartoon about a mouse, a plug-in for the GIMP raster editor has been written to allow the direct exporting of multi-layered images to corresponding layers of the 2D animation package Synfig.

The plug-in registers itself in the GIMP image menu <image>-> File-> Export-> Synfig.

gimp2synfigmenuxh9.th.jpg

There are export options you can choose. If the field "output path" is empty, the synfig canvas will be kept in the same directory as the initial GIMP document.

gimp2synfigsettingsvs3.th.jpg

Here is the result:

gimp2synfig003yn6.th.jpg

On the left you can see the initial image in Gimp, and on the right the same image imported into Synfig.

After adding a scale layer, the images cannot be distinguished.

gimp2synfig003withgammafd6.th.jpg

You can download the GIMP2synfig plugin.

For it to work, GIMP must support Python, and the most recent version of Python must be fully installed.

To install it, simply place the file in ~/.gimp-*/plug-ins/ and make it executable (chmod +x synfigexport.py), then restart The GIMP.

This program is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Distribution and updating of the code is welcomed.


Languages Language: 

English • español • français • italiano • română • русский