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How to make income online with 2D/3D animations.

Step 1. Ask #Huggingchat to generate your script
Step 2. Make a storyboard in #krita
Step 3. Edit your assests in #Krita #GIMP #ImageMagick
Step 4. Create your animation in #blender #OpenSCAD #freecad #Friction #synfig #pencil2d #Glaxnimate #FFmpeg
Step 5. Put it all together in #kdenlive #shotcut #flowblade #natron
Step 6. Upload your video to #odysee
Step 7. Promote your content on #mastodon #peertube #pixelfed #xmpp #matrix #irc

I have so many bits and pieces of Python code to modify #Synfig files that I put them together into a library. This is the first release: sangfroid version 0.1 liverpool 1:

pypi.org/project/sangfroid/

The easiest way to install it is "pip install sangfroid". There is documentation at RTD:

sangfroid.readthedocs.io/

As a demonstration which is also useful, installing sangfroid gives you a script called bywords which times the appearance of words in an animation based on a subtitle file.

sangfroid isn’t perfect but it does the things I need to do. Thus, development may stop here, excepting bug fixes. But if anyone’s interested in helping, we can develop it further.

I had been handling these as four separate video textures, but it's just too confusing to manage, especially since they really need to be synchronized.

Kdenlive to the rescue: I just used the transform effect to assemble them into a single video texture, and then adjust all the textures to read from this. Synchronization is then just set up in this video file, making the Blender part much less hassle.

These have been through a lot. The two larger screens were animated by Timothee Giet. Then I created the two touchpanel displays using Inkscape and ffmpeg. And I fixed the timing and framerate on them using Kdenlive earlier. Now I'm taking the PNG streams and reassembling them to get them synced properly.

:lunatics:​​:inkscape:​​:kdenlive:​​:blender: #Lunatics #Kdenlive #Blender #Synfig #Inkscape

outsiDers Episode 17: No Plaice Like Home (2nd bit)

diode.zone/videos/watch/5508e5