EbSynth - Tutorial

In this video, you will learn to turn your paintings into hand-drawn animation.

Hi!
We are Secret Weapons and we make tools for artists. Our first weapon - EbSynth - brings your art to life. Try it out yourself!

[RadenWA]

The entire artist cast of the Loving Vincent movie are pulling their hairs right now.

[TESkyrimizer]

i canr believe this is free and no one has heard of it until Joel told us about it. this is INCREDIBLE

[echdareez]

Besides this being a spectacular piece of software (currently playing with it), can we all also agree that "Sarda" is one hell of explainer? She is witty, to the point and clear. Loved this tutorial!

[GamingHelp]

I would like to say, I VERY much appreciate that you guys didn't make this into a "cloud" tool requiring people to whip up yet another account on yet another platform just to try it. Also, well done. This is what a good modern tool should be. :)

[Schyferyel]

Who else is here because Joel Haver revealed how he made his videos lol

[henrysaizofficial]

I´ve done my first test and im completely amazed, this is a revolucionary tool and you guys deserve massive success, i just can say THANK YOU, for creating this and making it free. Much love from Spain.

[jojoviviator]

I found this after the two minute papers video, and I am very curious to the technique used. I will definitely experiment with this, as it seems very promising!

[tobycall]

this is the single greatest software program of all time i almost cried the first time i used it thank you so so so much

[pxthucydidesx]

In case no one has laid it out- Ebsynth can be used with ffmpeg start to finish. No need for After Effects and Premiere for seeing how it works.

Extract png sequence from video:

ffmpeg -r 1 -i <myvideo.mp4> -r 1 output%03d.png

< run EbSynth >

And then generate video from png sequence:

ffmpeg -framerate 24 -i %03d.png output.mp4

Terrific bit of software.

[josielewis]

This is probably the best Ebsynth tutorial I've seen here. It hits the high points and gives some really good pointers. I can't wait to try it out with some video I have.

[ducksmash]

The person explaining is a really fun personality which helps not slog the tutorial-ness of the video! Great explanations thanks so much <3

[JimmyGunawan]

I cannot run the app, it keeps frozen on MacOS Catalina beta: 2019-08-08 14:24:23.959 EbSynth[799:14041] +[NSXPCSharedListener an error occurred while attempting to obtain endpoint for listener 'com.apple.view-bridge': Connection interrupted

[Wheeelie]

Not only tut incredibly helpful (and WOW!!!), it was so entertaining! I appreciate the pro's approach to teaching and her sense of humor.!

[OlovMetal]

OH MY GOD, THANK YOU, Professional Animator and Compositor here, and this tool literally just liberated me to go full Spectrum Indie film. THANK YOU! LOVE YOU ALL! LEGENDS!

[prophetofthesingularity]

I have been experimenting with this and I think that even with this being a few years old it still has not yet been fully realized how powerful of a tool this can be.

[tonywords]

I absolutely love this, sure its not exactly on the level of Alexander Petrov but its an incredible resource for young animators with no time or money

[Ludifant]

Ok, as an animator and creative coder working with style transfers and natural media animation and cartoons, I can only say thank you. I will check this out TODAY. Look simple and very interesting. I´m looking forward to what the result will be with 3D-animation and 2d animation as input etc..

[patxigarmendizabal]

Hey, I've tried again using FaceApp and EbSynth and the result is EXCELLENT.
I love it, I'm sure it will keep getting better and better, and it's free, I thank you guys immensely. Keep up the good work.

[N_Jones]

so interesting...I rememeber thinking about this back in the early 2000s, when you used to get corrupted videos with missing keyframes, and it would just use the previous one creating some very weird effects on playback. Looking forward to playing with it.

[sirchced]

Amazing. I just forwarded this to my brother who has been in the animation industry for over 20 years and could probably use this to test styles for his works. Thank you so much.