[Synfig-user] several questions

[Danilo P. <pr...@ar...>]

Hi,

I came across synfig few days ago and I am already hooked.
Although not everything was intuitive in the first instance and the 
documentation describes only basic functions I managed to learn quite a 
few things by looking at provided examples.

A simple question, is it possible to make an ellipse with synfig studio? 
Circle is easy but to make ellipse, I had to do two symmetric blines 
which is a real pain. And then trying to join them is even worse :-)

Also is it possible to make animations where things move along an 
outline/path? What I am trying to do is to move an object on elliptical 
path - a real pain to do manually.

And finally, what is the point of keyframes in synfig? In other programs 
I used they define frames where you define how they look and the program 
tweens in between. But in synfig you can move the "green dots" wherever 
you like and having keyframes makes no difference at all (except that 
you can jump quicker to specific times).

Thanks a lot for this great program, keep up the good work.