pencil - Pencil2D is an easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations

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Pencil2D is an animation/drawing software for Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil2D is free and open source. Nightly builds are the bleeding edge versions of Pencil2D, which contains the most recent fixes and features. The link will direct you to Google Drive, please right-click on a file and select Download. The filename is pencil2d-OS-year-month-date. We currently do not offer legacy mac or 32-bit linux nightly builds. If you have one of these systems, you will have to wait for official releases or build the program from source.

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Synfig Studio - 2D animation software

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Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork. It eliminates the need to create animation frame-by frame, allowing you to produce 2D animation of a higher quality with fewer people and resources.

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Pencil

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Pencil is a cross-platform open-source 2D animation software. Its first aim is to make traditional animations (cel, cartoons, etc). It features bitmap and vector drawing tools, layers, cameras. Animations made with Pencil can be exported as QuickTime.

Synfig Studio - 2D animation software

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Synfig Studio is a 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork. It eliminates the need to create animation frame-by frame, allowing you to produce 2D animation of a higher quality with fewer people and resources.

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Macaw - Powerful and easy-to-use vector graphics Swift library with SVG support

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Macaw is a powerful and easy-to-use vector graphics library written in Swift. Modern designs contain tons of illustrations and complex animations. Mobile developers have to spend a lot of time on converting designs into native views that will be resizable for different screens. With Macaw you can reduce development time to a minimum and describe all graphics in high level scene elements. Or even render SVG graphics right from your design tool with Macaw events and animation support.

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Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program, A photoshop alternative

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GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple Paint program, with full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc. It supports Photo Enhancement, Digital Retouching, Image format converter, Animation etc.

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spritejs - A cross-platform lightweight 2D render object model.

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SpriteJS is a cross-platform lightweight 2D render object model. Manipulate the sprites in canvas as you do with the DOM elements.

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coa_tools - COA Tools is a 2D Animation Suite for blender

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This is the Documentation for the Blender/Godot Addon Cutout Animation Tools. The Cutout Animation Tools (COA Tools) Addon for blender is a 2D rigging and animation suite. It offers you similar tools as for example programs like Spine or Spriter. COA Tools offer you a rapid workflow to create 2D Cutout Character/Animations in blender. Thanks to blenders great animation system and and this addon you get a powerfull solution to create 2D animations. It is parted into 3 different components. Photoshop sprite exporter, Blender Addon, Godot importer.

ADN - Animate.NET

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Animate.net is an application for creating 2D animations using vector graphics. It has a vector drawing interface similar to Inkscape and animation tools similar to Flash.

OpenToonz - 2D animation creation software

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OpenToonz is a 2D animation software published by DWANGO. It is based on Toonz Studio Ghibli Version, originally developed in Italy by Digital Video, Inc., and customized by Studio Ghibli over many years of production.

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macSVG - macSVG - An open-source macOS app for designing HTML5 SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) art and animation with a WebKit web view ---

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May 8, 2018 – macSVG v1.1.4 is released, with minor user interface improvements, and various bug fixes. See the Release Notes for details. macSVG is a MIT-licensed open-source macOS app for designing HTML5 SVG 1.1 (Scalable Vector Graphics) art and animation.

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libShiva

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Shiva is a C++ library for drawing and animation of vector graphics through an OpenGL context. It can also import SVG graphics and includes a set of quot;skinnablequot; standard GUI classes like Button, InputBox and ListBox to give functionality to drawing.

eXeNAy

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Exenay is a 2D engine, based on XNA, allowing you to easily create games without having to worry about rolling your own engine. No need to worry about implementing your own sprite objects, position vectors, sprite sheet animation manager, drawing methods, and much more. Exe...

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AutoManga Cel Animation Engine

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AutoManga will provide authoring tools (integrated with the Skencil vector graphics program) and PyGame (SDL) based display tools for parametric character animation, with tools and helpers optimized for quot;manga-stylequot; characters. Uses 2D SVG quot;celsquot;.

DragonBone Animation

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DragonBone Software allows developers to create 2D skeletal animations that can be exported via XML and added into your project. Empowering the user to quickly and effortlessly create 2D animations for use in the development of a variety of programs.

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spine-runtimes - 2D skeletal animation runtimes for Spine.

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This GitHub project hosts the Spine Runtimes which are needed to use Spine 2D skeletal animation data with various game toolkits. The Spine Runtimes may only be used for personal or internal use, typically to evaluate Spine before purchasing. If you would like to incorporate the Spine Runtimes into your applications, distribute software containing the Spine Runtimes, or modify the Spine Runtimes, then you will need a valid Spine license. Please see the Spine Runtimes Software License for detailed information.

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LibreOffice - The Document foundation

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LibreOffice is the free power-packed Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. LibreOffice is the perfect choice for home users, businesses, government and other organizations. It's native file format is the ISO standardized ODF (Open Document Format), but LibreOffice can open and save Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel files, as well as many other formats, bringing you the widest-available compatibility with other products.

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KOffice - office suite for KDE

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KOffice consists of several applications that offer a specialized interface for a certain task to a generic set of content components. Its office suite includes word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases, project planning.

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Codeum Scalable Vector Graphics

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Codeum Scalable Vector Graphics is a tool that will run on BeOS. Its purpose to is to deliver 2D animation via SVG.

EaselJS - The Easel Javascript library provides a full, hierarchical display list, a core interaction model, and helper classes to make working with the HTML5 Canvas element much easier

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EaselJS is a library for building high-performance interactive 2D content in HTML5. It provides a feature-rich display list to allow you to manipulate and animate graphics. It also provides a robust interactive model for mouse and touch interactions.It is excellent for building games, generative art, ads, data visualization, and other highly graphical experiences. It works well alone, or with the rest of the CreateJS suite: SoundJS, PreloadJS, and TweenJS.

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