Creature Alternatives

Creature is described as 'This software is used to create fluid and natural animation to 2D graphics, easily allowing the user to use secondary animation to make it look more natural' and is a game development tool in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Creature for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Chrome OS apps. The best Creature alternative is OpenToonz, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Creature are Synfig Studio, enve, Expressive Animator and Spine.

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

    43 OpenToonz alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • OpenToonz is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Creature.

    • OpenToonz is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Creature.

    • OpenToonz is Free and Open SourceCreature is Paid and Proprietary
    • OpenToonz is Privacy focusedCreature is not according to our users
  2. enve icon
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    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.

    56 enve alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    The premier editor for SVG animations. Create interactive SVG animations that run anywhere without plugins, players, or JavaScript code embedded.

    77 Expressive Animator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
    • Expressive Animator is the most popular commercial alternative to Creature.

    • Expressive Animator is Paid and ProprietaryCreature is also Paid and Proprietary
    • Expressive Animator is LightweightCreature is not according to our users
  4. Spine icon
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    Spine is 2D animation software designed specifically for software and game development. Animators, artists and programmers unite to bring your games alive.

    16 Spine alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. AnimeEffects icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Live2D Cubism icon
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    Live2D is the world's first drawing technology to enable 3D rendering of 2D images. This technology supports a variety of portable consoles and smartphones, and Live2D is already being utilized for games that take advantage of the unique characteristics of hand drawn artwork.

    12 Live2D Cubism alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Unity
     
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    Marionette Studio is a great software, powerful, easy and very intuitive to create 2D animations, characters for video games and more.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
     
    • Marionette Studio is the most popular Web-based alternative to Creature.

    • Marionette Studio is Paid and ProprietaryCreature is also Paid and Proprietary
  8. Spriter icon
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    Spriter : an intuitive 2D animation tool for video game makers.

    Spriter enables the “modular” method of animating where, instead of each frame being a single complete image, it is constructed from many small, re- useable images (such as body parts). Each of these images that ar.

    18 Spriter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Kenney Studio icon
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    Kenney Studio is an easy to use tool to create game sprites using various pre-made objects. Each object has unique options and without any artistic skill you can create a wide range of sprites.

    12 Kenney Studio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Sprite Something is a drawing, animation and tilemap application for pixel artists and game developers. Draw multiple frames individually, then quickly drag and drop frames into an animation, or use your frames to draw tilemaps for your game levels.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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