User:Rakesh/Tupi

Introduction

Tupi (formerly KTooN) is a software application for the design and creation of 2D animation. This tool, inspired by and for animators, is being developed by an open community. It is covered under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2, meaning that Tupi is free and open-source software. After Tupi was forked from KToon, KToon's official website was changed to redirect to the website for Tupi.

Basic information

ICT Competency	It is a generic visual resource creation and editing tool.
Educational application and relevance	You can use this tool to create short 2D animations, modify image sequencing as per your academic requirements. You can mix multiple visual formats such as images, graphics together to create educational resources. It will help teachers and students to teach and learn things easily.
Version	Tupi version 0.2 git02
Other similar applications	Pencil2D Pencil2D is an animation/drawing software which lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. It is free and open source cross-platform audio editor. Synfig An industry quality software designed for 2D animations Blender 3D design and animation tool
The application on mobiles and tablets	No application for mobile platform
Development and community help	Tupi Tutorial on YouTube is available on tupi youtube Official Website

Overview of Features

One of the main objectives of this project from the beginning has been to provide an easy user experience, starting at the design of the GUI which allows the creation of simple animations in only 5 steps.

Despite still being in early development, the software includes many features:

Modular user-friendly interface[clarification needed]
Animation and preview modules
Basic tools for vector illustration
Timeline and exposure sheet
Import of Bitmap images (useful for Stop Motion animation)
Export to various formats (Ogg Theora, AVI, MPEG, SWF and a sequence of PNG images)

Installation

The application is part of the Ubuntu custom distribution.
In case you do not find it on your computer, you can install by typing Tupi on top search bar in Software Centre.
If you would like to install through the terminal follow these steps below:
1. Open terminal by clicking Applications->System Tools->Terminal or through Keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+T
2. In the terminal window, type below command and press enter to start the installation by providing your machine password:
3. sudo apt-get install tupi

Working with the application

Functionalities


Step 1-initially to create the animation there will be frames in the tupi each frame consists of separate drawings in it. The below images it shows how we can use frame idea to get animation.	Step 2- the above image it shows the first frame it will be the starting drawing for animation in second frame we will be having transparent frame type so we can keep frame1 as reference and draw the 2nd frame to make slight changes in it. the repetition of the frames goes and it makes a small animation .

Step 3-Once all the frames are done we have to click on animation button there we can select the number for the speed of the frames. Later we can export this into many formats and save it in our local system video format open video formats image arrays we can save the file in .tup format

File formats for creation

.bmp, .svg

Saving the file

we can save the file in .tup format

Export and publishing files

we can export this into many formats and save it in our local system
1.video format
2.open video formats
3.image arrays