Open-source 2D software for creating animations with vector and bitmap artwork, advanced bone rigging, tweening, timeline editing, onion skinning, multi-layer effects, audio sync, and multi-format rendering on Windows, Linux, and macOS.




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 seven 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 TVPaint Animation, Xara 3D Maker, Rubber Hose 2 and Artist Code.
Open-source 2D software for creating animations with vector and bitmap artwork, advanced bone rigging, tweening, timeline editing, onion skinning, multi-layer effects, audio sync, and multi-format rendering on Windows, Linux, and macOS.




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.



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...




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.

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.



Visual tool for creating interactive SVG animations: HTML5 banners, svg icons, interactive web infographics etc.

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.