Question

what is required to be done to layer and shape for doing masking in Synfig ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Sometimes you want your characters to go behind objects, a building in the background for instance. If you create your background in Synfig you can probably just place the character behind the object in your layer stack but if your background is an image you need to do this by masking.

This tutorial will show you two basic ways of masking; hiding and revealing using differents blend methods