I just recently learned about Cavalry, a 2D motion graphics app. I played around with it a little bit and I was thinking how I could use it with Blender. I rendered a little test animation in B&W as a PNG sequence and used it in Blender as a displacement map on a plane. It’s just a simple example, but I think this type of thing could be used in interesting ways.
I was also able to export an SVG sequence, which sounds interesting, but I don’t know how to use it. It’s like the PNG sequence, but it’s SVG files. Could this be used in Blender somehow? What is it generally used for? Is there an SVG animation program?
Thanks. I wasn’t very clear there. I know all about SVG files and importing them into Blender and making them into meshes, but what can be done with a sequence of them?
Certainly, you could import each one of them and create meshes, and you could probably render them in sequence.
Also, I tried importing them as a sequence in the image editor, and it imported them, but I couldn’t use the sequence as a texture in the shader editor.
Could they be imported as curves? I’ll take a look at it.
Thanks, I just thought someone might say, “Ah, yes, I use SVG sequences all the time…”
I’m a bit puzzled because for example Inkscape can load the given file but there is no hint about “sequence” (in fact i even do not know if Inkscpape can use sequences… nor did i heard about that… but that’s of course only me )
Okay, I just went down a rabbit hole of vector animation. Yes, I found out this is a very common thing used in all sorts of things, especially for the web. So many different applications. This is like the replacement for Flash. https://app.lottiefiles.com/
This guy is doing exactly what I was thinking.
I think it might be useful to convert things to Grease Pencil.
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