Synfig/C2/Animate-a-Toy-train/English

Title of script: Animate a toy train

Author: Arthi. A

Keywords: Synfig, Change angle parameter, Create a Moving train animation

Visual cue	Narration
Opening Slide	Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on “Animate a toy train” using Synfig.
Learning Objectives (Slide)	In this tutorial we will learn to animate the toy train which we created earlier.
System requirements (Slide)	For this tutorial, I am using Ubuntu Linux 14.04 OS Synfig version 1.0.2
Synfig interface	Let’s open our Train Synfig file.
Point to the canvas	Please open your Train Synfig file which you saved on your system.
Point to the canvas	Let us start with the animation.
Right click on the Wheel folder layer	Click on the drop down list of Engine group layer. Right-click on the any of the Wheel group layer. Select the Star layer.
Again right click >> New layer >> Transform >> Rotate	Again right-click and click on New layer. Then click on Transform and on Rotate.
Point to Rotate effect	Now the Rotate effect has been applied to the wheel. Move the anchor point to the centre of the wheel.
Click on the Turn on animate editing mode icon	In the Animation panel, click on Turn on animate editing mode icon.
Type 100 in Current frame box	Type 24 in the Current frame box.
Parameters panel	Go to the Parameters panel. <<PAUSE>>
Amount parameter >> Change value to 360	Double-click on the value of Amount parameter and change the value to 360. Observe that waypoints are created on the Time track panel.
Drag the Time cursor between 2 waypoints	Click and drag the Time cursor between the 2 waypoints and check the rotation of the wheel. <<PAUSE>>
Press Ctrl + S	Save the file by pressing Ctrl + S.
Point to the rotation effect	Let us now create a time loop for this rotation effect.
Right click on Rotate effect layer	Right-click on Rotate effect layer and click on New layer.
Right click >> New layer >> Other >> Time Loop	Then click on Other and on Time Loop.
Parameters panel >> Check on Only For Positive Duration	In the Parameters panel, tick the checkbox of Only For Positive Duration. <<PAUSE>>
Point to Rotate & TIme Loop effects	Next, let us add the Rotate & TIme Loop effects to all the wheels.
Select the 2 layers >> Press Ctrl + C	So, select both the effect layers using the Shift key. And press Ctrl and C keys to copy the layers.
Right click on Wheel-2 group folder >> Press Ctrl + V	Now, click on the Wheel-1 group layer. Press Ctrl and V keys to paste the layers.
Repeat the process for other wheels	Repeat the same process for all the wheels. Now the rotation effect has been applied to all the wheels of the toy train. <<PAUSE>>
Press Ctrl + S	Save the file once again by pressing Ctrl + S.
Point to the train	Let us now animate the train.
Select all the group layers except Rail >> Rename as Train	Select all the group layers except Rail. Group them together and rename the group layer as Train.
Point to the Time cursor	Make sure that the Time cursor is in the zeroth frame.
Drag the train to the right of the canvas	Using Shift key, drag the train outside the canvas towards the right.
100th frame >> Move the train to left of the canvas.	Move the Time cursor to the 100th frame. Using Shift key, drag the train to the left side outside the canvas. <<PAUSE>>
Click on Turn off animate editing mode icon Press Ctrl + S	Click on Turn off animate editing mode icon. Save the file by pressing Ctrl + S.
Go to File >> Click on Render	Let us now render the animation. For this, go to File and click on Render.
Change the extension to avi >> Target drop down list >> ffmpeg	In the File name field, change the extension to avi and change the Target to ffmpeg.
Quality >> 9	Increase the quality to 9 and click on the Render button.
Desktop >> play the animation	Now go to Desktop. Right click on the avi file and play using Firefox web browser.
Point to the animation	We can now see the Toy train animation.
Summary (Slide)	With this we have come to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize. In this tutorial we learnt to animate a Toy train.
Assignment (Slide)	Here is an assignment for you- Animate the bus created in an earlier assignment by following the steps shown in this tutorial.
Completed assignment	Your completed assignment should look like this.
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Acknowledgment	This is Arthi along with the Spoken Tutorial Animation Team from IIT Bombay, signing off. Thanks for joining.

Contributors and Content Editors

Arthi, Nancyvarkey, PoojaMoolya