Best free 2d animation software in 2022
Introduction With the rise of video content Two-dimensional or 2D animation or traditional animation style, become a great part of animated movies, cartoons, advertisements and video games, and of course a hobby for some awesome peoples i think you and me are part of them.
Which Software is free for 2D Animation?
There is a bunch of high quality software that definitely deserve to wast huge amount of money on them but what if you're a student or the leader of a small animation company that is on its way to the top
open source software are the solution
and this is a list of free and open source software that definitely deserve to try :
Pencil2d
An easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations and traditional animation
Pencil2D is a free and open-source 2D animation software for Windows, macOS and Unix-like operating systems.
It is used for making cartoons using traditional techniques (tracing drawings, onion skinning etc), managing vector and bitmap drawings.It allows saving the animations in its own native file format, as well exporting it as a sequence of images in PNG, JPEG, BMP or TIFF format, and also in a video file in AVI, MP4, WebM, GIF or APNG format.
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TupiTube
TupiTube is a free and open-source 2D animation software that is focused on usability for children, teenagers and amateur artists. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Unix-like operating systems and Android. This project is developed and maintained by the Colombian startup MaeFloresta.
krita
Krita is a free and open-source raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital painting and 2D animation. The software runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and Chrome OS, and features an OpenGL-accelerated canvas, colour management support, an advanced brush engine, non-destructive layers and masks, group-based layer management and vector artwork support.
blender grease pencil
Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software tool set used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D-printed models, motion graphics, interactive 3D applications, so grease pencil is a bunch of tools in blender to use with traditional 2D animation, cut-out animation, motion graphics or use it as storyboard tool among other things.
Synfig studio
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.
Probably the best professional software in this list.
is a highly advanced open-source modeling and animation suite that is completely focused on 2D animation and enabling 2D artists to take full advantage of their drawing and animation skills. Originally developed as a proprietary modeling and animation suite Digital Video S.p.A. in Italy, this application gained worldwide recognition when it was accepted and customized in the offices of Studio Ghibli, a famous Japanese animation film studio based in Koganei, Tokyo, Japan.
In March of 2016, open-source of this entire application was released to the public, enabling talented 2D artists and animators to embrace the same tools that Studio Ghibli used in the creation of many of their popular feature films.
