The optimization of package size is just a first step. But, unfortunately, the amount of donations we get from community is not enough to fit this into our budget right now.Īnyway, we do everything within our possibilities to make OSX version better. It eliminates the need to create animation frame-by frame, allowing you to produce 2D animation of a higher quality. Buying an OSX workstation (or MacBook) would allow us to do extensive testing and improvements of Synfig for OSX platform. Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork. Thus we only have limited capabilities on testing and improving OSX versiom. One of the reasons for this is that no one of Synfig developers have regular access to OSX workstation. This lets you apply shading to a layer once at the beginning of a gradient, and then again at the end, letting you easily change the shading between frames. It uses a system for soft shading using curved gradients within a given area. I hope this explains topic about package size.įor years I try to use Synfig with every new version that sees daylight. Applying shading to every single frame of animation is tedious work, but Synfig studio can do the work for you.
There are so many ways that we can do to have this app running into our Windows OS.
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I think ripping off Python is not a good thing. How To Install Synfig Studio on Windows 10. I can rip-off Python, but in this case OSX users will not have possibility to run Synfig Plugins unless they have Python available in their path. You can check the size of average python installation by checking its distros on official size. The package includes Python, which is required for running Synfig Plugins. But this will be done with next release (I prefer to do optimizations "one step at time"). I considering to drop support for 32bit, which will reduce size approximately by 100 Mb. The package includes binary compatibility for both 64bit and 32bit system. Version is smaller (download size), but not as an mac os app (still 379 mb!).