Synfig provides 50+ layers to create artwork and animation of any complexity. Choose from various layer types: geometric, gradients, filters, distortions, transformations, fractals and others.

The new Sound Layer provides basic features for syncing your animation with soundtrack. Linux users can get all benefits of full-featured audio editors through the JACK integration.

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Jul 22, 2015 · We are happy to announce that the new stable release of Synfig Studio is available for download now! This version delivers some important bugfixes for all platforms. Please read Release…

Dec 30, 2019 · Back in 2016, I was working on a short 2D vector animation. I tried creating it with Synfig, but for some reason, I found it unusable. I am not trying to discredit Synfig, I am sure there are …

Dec 18, 2013 · I had a little experiment with Anime Studio couple of years ago, and noticed an open source software then called Synfig but I dropped it since I couldn’t get through it, I had a very little …

Feb 3, 2026 · Animation discussion Discuss anything about animation, art and drawing. Introductions New users are encouraged to introduce themselves to the other forum members here.

Synfig GUI implies that sound files can be loaded and played with the animation previews, to aid with e.g. lip synching. Synfig relies on a helper library called MLT, libavcodec and their dependencies.

Software that is interested in wider portability among different operating systems will be interested instead in using the wrapper library and interface called libltdl [2].