Synfig Studio could use a helping hand.

[David Rylander]

Synfig Studio is an advanced 2D vector animation software. It is highly competent and very versatile with a value node system where almost anything can be animated. Different values can be connected and complex math formulas can be used to create intricate relationships.

As for development we are unfortunately a bit short on developers. We have one main developer who is right now porting the whole render engine to Cairo, a huge job that leaves him with very little time for other coding tasks. Then we have one developer who is revamping the UI with the goal of a single window mode among other refinements. Apart from these we have casual contributors who applies a patch or add a feature here and there.

We in the Synfig community would very much like to see more developers, preferably you. :)

One of the areas that needs improvement is usability, to atract more users we need to be more user friendly, so here's a few suggestions from the bug and feature trackers that can act as good starting points for anyone interested in the project.

• Vertex and shape handling - Move Green Positional Ducks, Make it easy to convert Outlines to Advanced Outlines, Add "Reverse Order" to context menu for vertex ducks, merge/split tangent on several nodes
• Canvas handling - Add option to change grid origin, Visible work area not limited by canvas size
• Timeline waypoint/keyframe handling - Select multiple waypoints easily, New actions for waypoints, chose more than one keyframe, Drag-select multiple waypoints, Ability to select waypoints form different channels, Change waypoint icons from hard-coded
• Onion skin improvements - Onion skins all have same transparency and Current frame transparent with onion skins.
• Others - Linear Parameter Rate truncated to 2.d.p., Gamma hard coded

Synfig is written in C++.
Synfig Studio website
You can contact the Synfig Studio community by the developers mailing list, IRC: #synfig on the irc.freenode.net IRC network, the Synfig forums is friendly and helpful. There's also some Developer documentation.

Thank you!
David Rylander on behalf of the Synfig Studio community.