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This American Life, animation by Chris Ware
Chris Ware has created another wonderful animation for the television version of “This American Life”. The animation is featured in episode 6 of the second season, “Every Marriage Is a Courtroom”, which debuts on June 1st.
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FAQ - Synfig Animation Studio
Can I do anything to improve the stability of synfigstudio?
If you're running on a Hyperthreading or multi-core CPU (e.g Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading or Intel Core2 Duo or Quadcore, etc.) then you may find Synfig is more stable if you restrict it to run on only one processor.
[edit] How do I do this on Windows?
To do this on windows, start Synfig Studio, then Ctrl-Alt-Del and choose Task Manager. Select the processes tab, find synfigstudio.exe in the processes list and right click on it. Choose 'Set Affinity' and make sure only one CPU is checked. Unfortunately, this setting isn't preserved so you either have to do this manually each time you start Synfig Studio or use a tool such as the Tom's Hardware Guide Task Assignment Manager.
[edit] How do I do this on Linux?
On linux, you need to install schedutils.
Then run synfigstudio like this:
taskset -c 0 synfigstudio
Or if you have synfigstudio open already, run this:
taskset -p -c 0 `pgrep synfigstudio`
Download - Synfig Animation Studio
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* MacOS: builds taken offline due to problems (1686495).
* Windows: Rendering issues may be encountered on Hyperthreaded or multi-core CPUs. Please see the FAQ for workaround details.
* There are security issues with the dv, imagemagick and ffmpeg targets on Windows, please avoid them.
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synfig.com overview
Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources. While there are many other programs currently on the market to aid with the efficient production of 2D animation, we are currently unaware of any other software that can do what our software can.
Background
2D Animation has traditionally been very expensive because every frame must be drawn by hand. Even with today's digital inking and painting software, the process still relies on individuals hand-drawing each frame. This laborious task is called “tweening”.
Our animation technology eliminates the task of manual tweening, producing smooth, fluid motion without the animator having to draw out each frame individually.
This allows you to produce 2D animation with fewer people while producing a product of a higher quality.
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synfig - Main_Page
Animation in the free world
Two-dimensional animation has long been the domain of proprietary software. That changes with the introduction of Synfig, a free software/open source tool for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources.
Learn more about Synfig...
