Make Synfig faster!

Hello, my name is Konstantin Dmitriev. I am running this campaign to fund the development of Synfig - the free and opensource animation software for Windows, Linux and OSX.

I am mentoring a full-time developer Ivan Mahonin, who is working on Synfig code. Ivan is a hired developer. Since 2013 his work is funded through the series of fundraising campaigns. You can read the full story here.

The success of the past campaigns allowed us to release Synfig Studio 1.0 with a lot of  major improvements and features. You can read about them on this page.

Now we would like to take Synfig one step further. Our goal is to make Synfig as fast as possible by creating new rendering engine. This work is already started - you can track our progress in this development branch. But the optimization is the hard task and there are still a lot of work ahead.

Here we need your help.  Your donations to this campaign will allow us to to run the intensive development on this feature and deliver it as soon as possible.

How much do we need? With the initial amount of $1000, which was collected from the previous crowdfunding, we plan to collect additional $1000  for each month of full-time development. With the full time development you can expect the intensive progress and regular updates.

UPDATE: By March 1st we have the amount of $3231. Our next goal is $4231 to accommodate the full-time development in April 2016.

What happens if we fail to reach the goal by the exact date? We still going to continue the development, but Ivan Mahonin will be working in part-time mode, depending on the collected amount. Of course, in this case the progress would be much slower.

That's how it is! With your help we can bring better animation software, which is freely available for everyone.

Thank you!