Hi all,

I've been using Inkscape for single-panel cartooning for a few months now and have really come to like the program for vector drawing (with a Wacom tablet). I'm now planning to do some cartoon animation and I was wondering if anybody has used Inkscape for this purpose as part of your workflow. I realize that Inkscape isn't set up to do animation in and of itself, but I could see it working really well in conjunction with a sound editor and a compositing tool, compositing a series of png outputs. But I wonder how to do certain things, like panning across a background for instance. I can certainly move an image across the page in Inkscape and output that as a series of pngs, but how would I make sure each incremental move is at the right speed and in the right direction, so the resulting animation is smooth? Has anybody out there done this sort of thing with Inkscape? Is there any sort of onion skinning plug-in or anything like that?

Thanks,

Matt Jordan

PS - I joined the list officially and resent this to speed things up. My apologies if you end up seeing the original come through later.