Synfig Studio Alternatives

The top-rated alternative to Synfig Studio is Krita, which is free and open source. People also recommend Animation Desk, OpenToonz, Glaxnimate and Candlestick. Animation Makers like Synfig Studio are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, the web and Android.

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  1. 2D animation software. Turn images to animated characters, control characters with your expressions, generate lip-sync animation from audio, accomplish 3D parallax scenes, produce 2D visual effects & quickly customize characters.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  2. Cacani icon
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    Now, artists will be able to draw and paint their animations in a shorter time with CACANi’s unique auto inbetweening and auto painting workflow.

    21 Cacani alternatives

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    • Paid
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    • Windows
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  3. Kage Studio icon
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    Kage Studio is a vector-based 2D Animation cross-platform Software that can export animation to HTML5, PNG sequence, Spritesheet, and video (via FFmpeg) as well as static images to PNG and SVG.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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  4. Animates 2D characters in real time by tracking facial expressions and movements, integrates with Creative Cloud, supports layered artwork import, enables live streaming, lip-sync, drag-and-drop actions, timeline editing, and export to video.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe Creative Cloud
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  5. Create animated presentations and export them to a video file, animated gif or HTML based on SVG and GSAP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  6. Trangram icon
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    Trangram is a free one-stop platform to create, animate and share motion graphics.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  7. 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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe After Effects
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  8. Whether you do 2D, 3D or stop motion Animation, DigiCel FlipBook makes animation easier!

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  9. Limber is an IK system for After Effects that uses shape layers to make customizable limbs for character animation. Limber has controls for styling the shape and colors, dynamically preventing animation ‘pops’, smoothly blending between IK and FK, foreshortening one half of a...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe After Effects
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  10. Celas Studio icon
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    Draw, rig, animate. All in one program. Celas Studio, your 2.5D animation studio. Smoothly control powerful vector lines with Action Bones, bring them to life with a dynamic skeleton system and wind physics. 3D camera system, traditional raster animation, and more...

    26 Celas Studio alternatives

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    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  11. Express Animate is free animation software that gives you the ability to animate shapes, text and imported images. You are also able to enhance your movie projects in post-production using key-frame motion animation, masking, dummy objects and more.

    39 Express Animate alternatives

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    • Free
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    • Windows
    • Mac
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