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thx for the quick intro to the world of 2D animations. Most of us on HN are not familiar with this but we're creative people and I'm sure many others just lik

thx for the quick intro to the world of 2D animations. Most of us on HN are not familiar with this but we're creative people and I'm sure many others just like me, would love to use these tools someday.... someday...

alexvoda 11y ago
If you are interested in 2D animation software there are a few others that are worth mentioning. These packages are usually either vector based or raster based. Of the vector based I recall: - Anime Studio - Toon Boom Studio/Harmony/Animate - Macromedia/Adobe Flash/Animate - Synfig Studio (Open Source) Of the raster based: - Celsys Retas - Toonz Harlequin/Bravo - TVPaint Animation There are some others in both categories but I don't remember them right now. Feel free to add to the list.
- wesleyhill 11y ago
  There's also Pencil2D[0] which open source. [0] https://github.com/pencil2d/pencil https://github.com/pencil2d/pencil
- chestnut-tree 11y ago
  There's also VPaint, an open source animation program (currently in beta) for Windows and Mac. The description on their site: "VPaint is an experimental vector graphics editor based on the Vector Animation Complex (VAC), a technology developed by a collaboration of researchers at Inria and the University of British Columbia, featured at SIGGRAPH 2015. It allows you to create resolution-independent illustrations and animations using innovative techniques." http://www.vpaint.org/ http://www.vpaint.org/
- brachi 11y ago
  Blender, recently improved its grease pencil tool, which was used for only quick 2d sketches in a 3d scene: http://aligorith.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/grease-pencil-news-roundup-november.html http://aligorith.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/grease-pencil-news-...
- kinow 11y ago
  Krita has a beta Animation tool too https://krita.org/item/second-animation-beta/ https://krita.org/item/second-animation-beta/
- buovjaga 11y ago
  Tupí is an open source alternative: http://www.maefloresta.com/portal/ http://www.maefloresta.com/portal/ It is now under the KDE umbrella.
- kestrelm 11y ago
  Hello, I develop a 2D procedural mesh and skeletal animation tool called Creature: http://creature.kestrelmoon.com/ http://creature.kestrelmoon.com/ Check it out here.
- skavish 11y ago
  https://www.animatron.com https://www.animatron.com - online, vector based, exports to video, svg, svg+smil, js+dom (html5), gif disclaimer: I work there
  - justinclift 11y ago
    Negative points: a) Not Open Source. Still, tried signing up on the free account to see if it's any good, as there's some old PostgreSQL training things in Flash that would be useful updated... b) Account sign-up doesn't work. Typing in email address, then clicking the "CREATE" button... goes forever. The little circle thing just spins and spins. Waited several minutes, then gave up. Oh well. :(

alexvoda 11y ago

If you are interested in 2D animation software there are a few others that are worth mentioning. These packages are usually either vector based or raster based. Of the vector based I recall: - Anime Studio - Toon Boom Studio/Harmony/Animate - Macromedia/Adobe Flash/Animate - Synfig Studio (Open Source) Of the raster based: - Celsys Retas - Toonz Harlequin/Bravo - TVPaint Animation There are some others in both categories but I don't remember them right now. Feel free to add to the list.

wesleyhill 11y ago
There's also Pencil2D[0] which open source. [0] https://github.com/pencil2d/pencil https://github.com/pencil2d/pencil
chestnut-tree 11y ago
There's also VPaint, an open source animation program (currently in beta) for Windows and Mac. The description on their site: "VPaint is an experimental vector graphics editor based on the Vector Animation Complex (VAC), a technology developed by a collaboration of researchers at Inria and the University of British Columbia, featured at SIGGRAPH 2015. It allows you to create resolution-independent illustrations and animations using innovative techniques." http://www.vpaint.org/ http://www.vpaint.org/
brachi 11y ago
Blender, recently improved its grease pencil tool, which was used for only quick 2d sketches in a 3d scene: http://aligorith.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/grease-pencil-news-roundup-november.html http://aligorith.blogspot.com.ar/2015/12/grease-pencil-news-...
kinow 11y ago
Krita has a beta Animation tool too https://krita.org/item/second-animation-beta/ https://krita.org/item/second-animation-beta/
buovjaga 11y ago
Tupí is an open source alternative: http://www.maefloresta.com/portal/ http://www.maefloresta.com/portal/ It is now under the KDE umbrella.
kestrelm 11y ago
Hello, I develop a 2D procedural mesh and skeletal animation tool called Creature: http://creature.kestrelmoon.com/ http://creature.kestrelmoon.com/ Check it out here.
skavish 11y ago
https://www.animatron.com https://www.animatron.com - online, vector based, exports to video, svg, svg+smil, js+dom (html5), gif disclaimer: I work there
- justinclift 11y ago
  Negative points: a) Not Open Source. Still, tried signing up on the free account to see if it's any good, as there's some old PostgreSQL training things in Flash that would be useful updated... b) Account sign-up doesn't work. Typing in email address, then clicking the "CREATE" button... goes forever. The little circle thing just spins and spins. Waited several minutes, then gave up. Oh well. :(