My own opinion: While this is a must for many web games, phone games, etc, many Unity based, but this was common already in the times of the Flash games boom (I was there making games with a mate, indy style). All of these count on onion skinning, which is so key (pun intended).
#Synfig vs anime studio debut full#
Yet though, they'll typically as well allow frame by frame full drawing animation. These are mostly thought to optimize assets handling in game, reusing character parts, combining parts, so, one basically build the character parts (for example, in AD, export as a bitmap in this case), and then are animated with or without bones. The latter is quite capable, if not as powerful as the former, but with a much more friendly pricing.
#Synfig vs anime studio debut professional#
There are a bunch more, but I'd mention two more that are focused in game animations, specially in 2D for Unity game engine and the web , for professional work with them, they are very polished : Spine (a standard even to get a job in that very specific niche), and a similar one, called Spriter. I know the story till certain level of detail. Other brands include cheaper versions -or a single version- of 40 -100 $, and some of those are more than enough ( probably you are good to go with Synfig ! It has evolved a huge lot thanks to the push of certain developer, lately. More or less there's kind of an established pricing that most adhere to for the average freelancer/small studio : Around 300 to 400 bucks.
There's quite some hype about something I have not yet tested, but with some very clever approaches for inbetweening and a lot of things more. Then you have a vectors and raster based 2D animation tool, but besides I don't love the UI, is the fact that it crashed on me from time to time, and/or lost pressure, etc.But this was years ago, surely is stable now, and might have been only my machine. So, surely Moho (Anime Studio) and ToonBoom Harmony (but even Essentials is pricey, imo, 400) should work in some sort of workflow, as well. As any other vector based animation tool. Synfig is surely the proper tool to work with AD, since it is vector based (is also bones/parts based, somehow, although you could use any technique, I guess). The old version, 4.0 is completely free, though.
(if I understood well, a more modern version of Animation Paper is incoming, for 79 $. Like synfig (but synfig is vector based), is free. Or export parts and animate with bones (I don't like that, but is even imposed in 2D game companies). I like Animation Paper. If you export the main keyframes to raster, and are comfortable with raster drawing & traditional frame by frame animation, you can as well use any raster based 2D animation tool for inbetweening and etc.
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