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Friction is a motion graphics application for creating vector and raster animations for web and video. It offers multiple scenes and timelines, a powerful expression editor, text and path effects, and experimental support for user-customizable shader effects. Builds are offered for Windows, Linux and macOS, including portable and snapshot versions.
OpenToonz is open-source 2D animation production software based on Toonz, developed by Digital Video S.p.A. in Italy and customized by Studio Ghibli. Dwango launched the OpenToonz project with Digital Video and Studio Ghibli. It can be used free of charge for commercial and non-commercial projects.
Wigglypaint is a free online drawing tool for creating animated sketches and doodles. It offers eight unique brushes, an eraser, a clear button and undo options, and drawings can be exported as animated GIFs. From the end of 2025, an advanced toolbar adds fullscreen mode, additional palettes and markers.
JPixel is a downloadable editor for Windows for making pixel art animations and tilesets. Animations can be exported as spritesheets or animated GIFs, and tilesets can be mocked up and exported as .png images. It is distributed on itch.io on a name-your-own-price basis.
SpriteSheep is a browser-based pixel art and sprite animation editor. It provides layers, frames, palettes and dithering tools, plus a tileset workflow, for building sprites and frame-by-frame animations without installation. The site labels it an alpha build in active development and free to use.
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