Open Source Animation Makers

Graphite is a free, open source vector graphics editor and animation engine, available now in alpha. Get creative with a fully nondestructive editing workflow that combines layer-based compositing with node-based generative design.

OpenToonz is an animation program that is a free software version of Toonz, the animation software used by Studio Ghibli, amongst others.

Friction is a powerful and versatile motion graphics application that allows you to create vector and raster animations for web and video platforms with ease.

Pixelorama is a free and open source sprite editor, ideal for pixel art. In this page you'll be learning about the latest added features, as well as its features in general. It's made with Godot Engine, using GDScript.

Glaxnimate is a vector graphics animation program which focuses on being quick and easy to use.

The Wick Editor is a free and open-source tool for creating games, animations, and everything in-between. It's designed to be the most accessible tool for creating multimedia projects on the web. Your creations can run on any device with a web browser - that means mobile too.

Synfig is a free and open-source, industrial-strength, vector-based 2D animation app designed for producing feature-film animations.

Pencil2D is an opensource animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, based on old Pencil software. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics.

Inochi creator is a framework for realtime 2D puppet animation. On this site you can find the reference implementation as well as the official tooling for creating and using Inochi2D puppets for VTubing.

Enve is a free and open-source 2D animation app. It can create both vector and raster animations and even use sound and video files. It has been created with flexibility and expandability in mind.

Remember the good old 2D games and their beautiful sprites? With Piskel you can create your own in a few clicks.

Non-destructive, node-based VFX compositor for pixel art enabling animation of parameters, batch importing, modular workflow, and layered image editing.

Tahoma2D is a powerful program for 2D and stop motion animation. Tahoma 2D is based on OpenToonz.

OpenToonz is based on software "Toonz" which was developed by Digital Video S.p.A. in Italy,

AnimeEffects is a 2D keyframe animation tool based on deformation of polygon meshes. You can easily operate, quickly shape your idea, and remake at any time if you have changed your mind.

Tupi is a design and authoring tool for digital artists interested in 2D Animation, fork of the KToon project, offering an interface experience focused on 8-100 years olds.

Render After Effects animations natively on Web, Android and iOS, and React Native.

Animator by Haiku is a creative environment for crafting codebase-ready animations. Carefully built around modern workflows, Animator integrates with your favorite design and code tools, and it's all backed by git version

SVG Flipbook runs next to your SVG editor and lets you animate your creation. Each layer in your SVG becomes one frame. You can use whatever SVG editor you like. Inkscape and Illustrator both work great.

Create animated presentations and export them to a video file, animated gif or HTML based on SVG and GSAP.

SpookyGhost is a procedural animation tool for sprites made with the nCine. You can animate many different properties like the size, rotation, position, and color of your sprites, as well as deform their shape.

Easytoon is a program that can create small animated gif friendly, a simple sequence of images giving the illusion of movement. It sounds simple written like that but it is quite complicated to implement, finally brief.

Ella (an acronym for Elegant Light Linux Animator) is a light animation software intended to achieve a aim of the Linux world : a functionnal and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) 2D animation sofware.

This is a simple animation line testing software written in C++ with Qt toolkit.

Simple stick animation using javascript.