Free Open-Source 2D & 3D Animation Programs for Windows, Linux, Mac, Free Download





Pencil2D
An easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations.

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OpenToonz
Software for the production of 2D animation.
Based on the software "Toonz", developed by Digital Video S.p.A. in Italy, 
OpenToonz has been customized by Studio Ghibli, and used for the creation 
of its works for many years. Dwango has launched the OpenToonz project in 
cooperation with Digital Video and Studio Ghibli.

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Our Mission
We build a free and open source complete 3D creation pipeline for artists and 
small teams, by publicly managed projects on blender.org. Blender is your own 3D software.

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Get Scribus
Scribus is an open-source desktop publishing program
Scribus is available for many operatings systems and comes in basically two flavors, stable and development. 
For almost all production work, we recommend that you use the stable version. In our development version lots of 
things may be regularly changing as we fix issues and introduce new features.
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The origin of Krita can be traced to Matthias Ettrich’s at the 1998 Linux Kongress. Matthias wanted to show the 
ease with which it was possible to hack a Qt GUI around an existing application, and the application he chose to 
demo it with was GIMP. His patch was never published, but did cause problems with the GIMP community at the time.
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Sozi 20.03 is available for testers and translators
2020-03-28
Since Sozi 19.04, a lot of internal changes have been made to Sozi: code clean-up and refactoring, 
upgrade of Electron and JavaScript libraries, build process. Ideally, these changes should be transparent 
for users, but further tests are needed before considering this release as stable.
If you are already using Sozi 20.02, this release is the same software with an updated Brazilian translation.
Sozi 20.03 can be downloaded from the release page of Sozi at GitHub. It introduces the following visible changes:
Presentation editor
About Sozi
Translations: Deutsch, Português do Brasil, Français
Sozi is a zooming presentation editor and player.
Unlike in most presentation applications, a Sozi document is not organised as a slideshow, but rather 
as a poster where the content of your 
presentation can be freely laid out. Playing such a presentation consists in a series of translations, 
zooms and rotations that allow to focus on the elements you want to show.

Sozi is based on open standards. It is free software distributed according to the terms of the 
Mozilla Public License 2.0.

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  Current Stable Version
The current stable release of GIMP is 2.10.18 (2020-02-23).
We think your OS is Microsoft Windows.
Show downloads for GNU/Linux | OS X | Microsoft Windows | All
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What is Inkscape?

Inkscape is a Free and open source vector graphics editor for GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS X. It offers a rich set of features and is widely used for both artistic and technical illustrations such as cartoons, clip art, logos, typography, diagramming and flowcharting. It uses vector graphics to allow for sharp printouts and renderings at unlimited resolution and is not bound to a fixed number of pixels like raster graphics. Inkscape uses the standardized SVG file format as its main format, which is supported by many other applications including web browsers.
It can import and export various file formats, including SVG, AI, EPS, PDF, PS and PNG. It has a comprehensive feature set, a simple interface, multi-lingual support and is designed to be extensible; users can customize Inkscape's functionality with add-ons.
The Inkscape project has a growing international user community, and many learning materials exist to help get you started with your creations. Help and support is provided by the community, and there are lots of ways for you to get involved if you want to help improve the Inkscape project.
Inkscape is a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy, a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Contributions to Inkscape are tax deductible in the United States.
Who makes Inkscape?
Inkscape has many authors, every author retains their own copyright and authors are likewise involved in setting Inkscape's technical and project goals. There are also many other non-coding contributors who are considered important parts of the Inkscape project.
If you wish to refer to Inkscape's creators or organisation you can use the terms "Inkscape's Contributors" and "The Inkscape Project" respectively to differentiate from Inkscape the software package.

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Animation paper



Animation paper Main Feature List
Super fast responsiveness – while drawing, while flipping, while everything
High quality lines – no degradation when transformed or resolution is changed
Small to large format frames
Realtime smooth rotation and zooming of the view
Light table (onion skinning – advanced and customizable)
X-Sheet – easy, yet powerful timing and reuse (also scribbled notes and sound wave display)
Layers (each layer colorcoded black, blue, red, green or custom)
Lasso (easily reposition/rotate/scale drawings or parts of drawings)
Clean up (stabilised lines)
Paint (efficient coloring and post paint changes)
Many alternative ways of flipping (keys, wheel, return flip, etc)
Customizable Tool Bar and Speed Dial for reaching favorite functions with a flick
Realtime full frame reference on 2nd monitor
Import video or frame-stacks for rotoscoping etc
Export mp4, mov or frame-stacks as png, svg, etc – including alpha and X-Sheet timing data
For Windows PC, Mac OS X and Linux (Android & iPad Pro with Pencil planned)

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Synfig Studio
Open-source 2D Animation Software
for Windows, Linux and OSX



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Sweet Home 3D
Sweet Home 3D is an open-source program for architectural design.
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