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Narration
00:01 Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on “Cutout animation” using Synfig.
00:05 In this tutorial, we will learn to Import an image,
00:10 use the Cutout tool on that image and animate the cutout shapes.
00:15 For this tutorial, I am using Ubuntu Linux 14.04 OS, Synfig version 1.0.2
00:26 We are in the Synfig interface.
00:29 Let us first of all save our Synfig file.
00:34 Go to File and click on Save.
00:37 I will select Desktop as the location.
00:41 Then click on Name and change it to Cutout-animation.
00:46 Now, let us start creating the cutout animation.
00:50 We need to import the image in Synfig.
00:53 For that, go to File and click on Import.
00:58 Open 'Please select a file' window
01:01 and select Painting.png. , Then click on Import.
01:08 We get the image on the canvas.
01:11 Similarly, import the Paint.png file also.
01:16 We get two layers named Paint and Painting.
01:21 Scale and adjust the images as demonstrated.
01:26 We need five copies of the painting layer for this animation.
01:30 So, select the layer and click on Duplicate layer icon.
01:35 Repeat 4 more times.
01:39 We now have the first Painting layer and four copies of the same.
01:45 Change the names of the layers as-

Girl's head,

01:49 Girl's upper body and bucket,

Girl’s legs,

01:53 Boy’s hand,

Boy’s body.

01:57 Turn the layers off by unchecking the Show/Hide box.
02:02 Select the Girl's upper body and bucket layer and turn on that layer.
02:07 Go to Toolbox. Click on the Cutout tool and mask this layer by drawing an outline as demonstrated.
02:17 We can adjust the mask by moving the nodes of mask.
02:23 One-by-one turn the layers on and use the Cutout tool to mask the other layers likewise.
02:32 With the Cutout tool, we can create freehand selection to make a mask on the imported image.
02:40 Similarly mask the paint.png layer as well.
02:46 Now, press Ctrl and S keys to save the file.
02:52 Go to Layers panel and click on the layer- Boy's hand.
02:57 Right-click on Mask layer of this layer.
03:01 Go to New layer and then to Transform.
03:04 Now click on Rotate.
03:07 Adjust the rotate handle as demonstrated.
03:11 Click on Turn on animate editing mode icon.
03:16 Move the cursor to the 30th frame.
03:21 Go to Parameters panel and click on Amount.
03:25 Change its value from 0 to -25.
03:30 Next, go to Layers panel and click on Girl's upper body and bucket layer.
03:37 Right-click on Mask layer of the Girl's upper body and bucket layer.
03:42 Go to New layer and then to Transform.
03:47 Select Rotate and adjust the rotate handle as demonstrated.
03:53 Move the Cursor to the 70th frame and change the Amount value from 0 to -6.14.
04:02 Go to the Layers panel and click on Girl's head layer.
04:07 Right-click on Mask layer of the Girl's head layer.
04:10 Go to New layer and then click on Transform.
04:14 Now click on Rotate and adjust the rotate handle as demonstrated.
04:20 Move the cursor to the 70th frame and go to Parameters panel.
04:26 Change the value of Amount from 0 to -10
04:34 We need to rearrange the layers as:

Boy’s hand,

Boy's body,

Girl’s head,

Girl's upper body and bucket,

Girl’s legs.

04:44 Now, go to Layers panel and click on Mask of the paint layer.
04:48 Place the Cursor on 0th frame and then go to the canvas.
04:56 Move the mask nodes as demonstrated.
04:59 Place the Cursor on 30th frame and go to the canvas.
05:04 Move the mask nodes as demonstrated.
05:08 Click on Turn off animate editing mode icon.
05:12 Then click on Seek to begin at the bottom of the canvas.
05:17 Now play the animation by clicking the Play button.
05:22 Draw a rectangle on the canvas for the background layer.
05:26 Press Ctrl and S keys to save the file.
05:31 Next, go to File and click on Render.
05:36 Go to the Render setting window. Click on the Target drop down menu and select the extension as ffmpeg.
05:45 Click on End time and change it to 70.
05:49 Click on Render.
05:52 Go to Desktop. Double click on Cutout-animation folder.
05:56 Select Cutout-animation.avi.
06:00 Right-click and play the animation using Firefox web browser.
06:07 With this, we have come to the end of this tutorial.
06:12 Let us summarize. In this tutorial, we learnt about Cutout animation in Synfig.
06:19 We learnt to : Use the Cutout tool and animate the cutouts.
06:24 Here is an assignment for you.
06:28 Locate the Indian flag image which is provided in the Code files link.
06:33 Cut the wheel part by using Cutout tool and rotate the wheel.
06:38 Your completed assignment should look like this.
06:42 The video at the following link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. Please download and watch it.
06:49 We conduct workshops using Spoken Tutorials and give certificates. Please contact us.
06:56 Please post your timed queries in this forum.
06:59 Spoken Tutorial project is funded by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India.
07:05 This is Shital Joshi along with the Spoken Tutorial Animation Team from IIT Bombay, signing off.

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