Adobe Director Alternatives

Adobe Director is described as 'Allows the creation of short animations playable on Adobe Shockwave and standalone executables on both Windows and Mac OS X making it an option for creating small 2D games and autorun programs' and is an app. There are eight alternatives to Adobe Director for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Flathub apps. The best Adobe Director alternative is Synfig Studio, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Adobe Director are Adobe Animate, TVPaint Animation, Xara 3D Maker and Rubber Hose 2.

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

    59 Synfig Studio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
    • Synfig Studio is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Adobe Director.

    • Synfig Studio is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Adobe Director.

    • Synfig Studio is Free and Open SourceAdobe Director is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Adobe Animate icon
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    Versatile multimedia tool, Adobe Animate offers 4K video export, HTML5 support, creative illustration tools, colored onion skinning, and seamless Creative Cloud integration. Formerly Flash Professional, it includes a rotatable canvas and vector brushes.

    59 Adobe Animate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
    • Adobe Animate is the most popular commercial alternative to Adobe Director.

    • Adobe Animate is Paid and ProprietaryAdobe Director is also Paid and Proprietary
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    TVP Animation is the leading paperless drawing and animation tool, able to imitate traditional techniques such as Pen Brush, Gouache, Watercolour, Pencil, Felt-tip and Airbrush, and animate them over frames.

    38 TVPaint Animation alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
     
    • TVPaint Animation is the most popular Android alternative to Adobe Director.

    • TVPaint Animation is Paid and ProprietaryAdobe Director is also Paid and Proprietary
  4. Xara 3D Maker icon
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    Xara 3D Maker is solely designed to create the highest quality 3D text and graphics, such as headings, logos, titles and buttons. It's the perfect way to add impact to your web pages, mailshots, movies and presentations (all images are fully anti-aliased for that smooth...

    3 Xara 3D Maker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Rubber Hose 2 icon
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    Rubber Hose is an After Effects tool for animation rigging. Connect layers from Illustrator and Photoshop into two new stretchy rigs – RubberPin and RubberRig. Style hoses unlike ever before. Major speed updates and key-frame baking let you work faster.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe After Effects
     
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    Visual tool for creating interactive SVG animations: HTML5 banners, svg icons, interactive web infographics etc.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Artist Code icon
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    Artist Code is an intuitive software for creating animation ( Movie, Animated Gif, Images) only by coding, it allows you to add image, text and pixels and place them with simple script offering you a fun and unlimited way to create whatever you want.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. libavg icon
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    libavg is a high-level development platform for media-centric applications.

    libavg allows programmers, media artists and designers to quickly develop media applications. It uses python as scripting language, is written in high-speed C++ and uses modern OpenGL for display output.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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