Animation

If you are looking for open source software for animation, look no further. Here is a list of free software for animation. This software is completely free with no watermarks and is available on multiple platforms such as Windows, Mac, and Linux.

1. OpenToonz

OpenToonz is free 2D animation editing software for both personal and professional use. It’s designed to be quick, intuitive, and compatible with a wide range of media formats. Perfect for animating 2 dimensional animations.

Features

  • 2D Animation
  • Onion Skin
  • Layers and Keys
  • Bone Tools
  • Cross Platform

2. Enve

Enve is free 2D animation editing software for both personal and professional use. It’s designed to be quick, intuitive, and compatible with a wide range of media formats. Perfect for animating 2 dimensional animations.

Features

  • 2D Animation
  • Supports SVG
  • Layers
  • Keying
  • Open Source

3. Pencil2D

Pencil2D is free 2D animation editing software for both personal and professional use. It’s designed to be quick, intuitive, and compatible with a wide range of media formats. Perfect for animating 2 dimensional animations.

Features

  • 2D Animation
  • Simple Design
  • Onion Skin
  • Layers and Keys
  • Cross Platform

4. Piskel

Piskel is free pixel art software for both personal and professional use. It’s designed to be quick, intuitive, and compatible with a wide range of media formats. Perfect for animating and creating pixel art.

Features

  • Import Pixel Art
  • Layers
  • Animate
  • Color Palettes
  • Cross Platform

4. Blender

Even though Blender is mainly used for 3D animation. Unlike other 2D animation programs you can edit and create 2D animations in 3D space. This allows you to do and create effects that can’t be done in other 2D animation programs such as parallax effects. Create animated motion graphics by adding key framing to any effect, image, or video clip. You can have multiple views of you project so you can see where everything is placed and exactly what the camera sees.

Features

  • Multiple Camera Views
  • Animate In 3D Space
  • Key Framing
  • Adding 3D Objects
  • Cross Platform