11 Best Animation Tools You Should Definitely Try

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11 Best Animation Tools You Should Definitely Try
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• For a digital artist, game developer, or
  character designer, animation tools are an
  essential component of the process. Its quite
  cool to see your illustrations animated. Whether
  your animation is brief and straightforward or a
  full-length cartoon, giving your illustrations
  movement gives them a fresh, intriguing
  dimension.
• It can be intimidating to venture outside of your
  comfort zone of static images and into the world
  of digital animation. It can be difficult to know
  where to start when there is so much to learn
  (including the 12 principles of animation) and a
  sea of tools to choose from.
• You can find some of the greatest tools for 2D
  animation creation in this list. With the use of
  vector-based graphics and pixel art, gaming is
  the main focus.
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• See our roundup of the finest animation software
  if youre looking for something a little more
  challenging.

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Cartoon Animator

• Cartoon Animator (opens in new tab) is the
  program you need if you need assistance with 2D
  facial and body puppeteering or audio lip-syncing
  for characters created using sprites or morphs.
• It comes in two varieties, Pro and Pipeline, and
  was once known as CrazyTalk Animator. The Pro
  edition will get you started with basic timeline
  editing and G3 character templates, but youll
  need the Pipeline version to fully enjoy the
  advantages of building your characters directly
  from PSDs. Both versions offer the import of
  photos and movies in a number of different
  formats.

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Toon Boom Harmony

• There are three versions of Toon Booms Harmony
  (opens in new tab), which some people believe to
  be the industry standard for animation software
  Essentials, Advanced, and Premium. Three license
  types are also available perpetual, monthly
  (beginning at 25/20 month), or annual (starting
  at 17/14 month).
• You can doodle, sketch, and paint in bitmap and
  vector formats with Harmonys drawing and
  animation capabilities. Additionally, you may use
  deformers, frame-by-frame animation, special
  effects, and advanced color palettes.

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TVPaint Animation

• A more professional collection of tools is
  TVPaint (opens in new tab), which enables you to
  render completely animated scenes from beginning
  to end. Because it employs bitmap technology, you
  may traditionally animate natural representations
  like gouache, watercolour, oil painting, crayon,
  and pen.
• One of the more expensive options in this
  comparison is TVPaint Animation, but it does
  include a trial version, and based on what weve
  seen thus far, its quite capable and well worth
  the money. Dont trust us? View its photo gallery
  (opens in new tab).

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Moho Debut and Moho Pro

• A vector-based 2D animation application for both
  beginners (Debut) and experts is called Moho
  (opens in new tab) (Pro). Both are jam-packed
  with pre-made characters and content to help you
  get started or inspire your ideas.
• With the Debut edition, you can adjust features
  like body proportions and premade 2D components
  using a character wizard. Alternately, you can
  utilize the autotrace feature and input your own
  photos. Motion blurs, frame-by-frame
  capabilities, FBX support, and more features are
  available to Pro users.

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Synfig Studio

• Synfig Studio is yet another powerful,
  cross-platform, open source 2D animation
  application (opens in new tab). Synfig allows you
  control over practically every part of your
  animation while being more complex than the
  majority of other graphics program. It also gives
  you access to tools you are likely already
  familiar with, such as brushes, fills, masks,
  layers, and more.

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FlipBook

• FlipBook (opens in new tab) is another option if
  youre seeking for a graphics program to produce
  conventional 2D animation, much like Pencil2D.
  You can import backdrops, cels, overlays, and
  even movies using FlipBook. You can even sketch
  and scan these items. You can also include audio.
  When finished, you can export either static
  photos or the entire animated film.

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Pencil2D

• Bring your hand-drawn animations to life with the
  help of this cross-platform 2D drawing and
  animation tool. Pencil2D (opens in new tab
  minimalist)s design enables you to concentrate
  on the animation and art rather than the user
  interface. It includes capabilities for importing
  and exporting data in many formats and supports
  both raster and vector.

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Spine

• Beyond pixel art, Spine enables you to animate
  your previously created artwork. Yes, Spine does
  not come with any illustration tools. But its
  definitely worth a look because its such a
  potent animation tool.
• Spine provides you with a dope sheet and a
  Free-Form Deformation (FFD) tool, as well as all
  the other tools required to animate your
  characters. You can adjust the timings of the
  animation by taking a close look at the timeline
  in the dope sheet. Additionally, you can deform
  your image and change specific mesh vertices with
  the FFD tool.

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Aseprite

• Aseprite is another excellent tool for pixel art
  and animation (opens in new tab). This program
  includes layer support, onion skins, playback
  modes, alpha channel control, shading options,
  and custom brusheseverything youd expect from a
  bigger publisher. You may import and export a
  wide range of formats, including animated GIFs,
  spritesheets, and PNGs, just like Piskel.

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Piskel

• An online program for making animated sprites and
  pixel art is called Piskel (opens in new tab). It
  is simple to use and requires no registration.
  However, you can create a gallery using your
  Google account by logging in, whether the gallery
  is public or private.
• You may get a live preview of your image while
  you create it using Piskel. Additionally, you
  have the choice of importing animated GIFs, PNGs,
  JPGs, and BMPs. Alternatively, you can import
  files in Piskels exclusive.piskel format. You
  can choose from animated GIFs, PNG spritesheets,
  or a zip file that contains every frame rendered
  as a PNG when it comes to exporting.
• Although this is an online application, Windows,
  Mac, and Linux users can download a version of
  it.

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OpenToonz

• As per a website designing institute in Delhi,
  the most recent version, 1.4, was launched for
  Mac and Windows last year. It included a number
  of new features, including a stop-motion panel
  that supported Canon DSLR cameras. Additionally,
  there is another open-source version of OpenToonz
  called the Morevna Edition (opens in new tab),
  which is also compatible with Linux and has extra
  features like assistant guides to make it simpler
  to add perspective to your environments,
  integration with the MyPaint brush engine, a
  horizontal timeline, and a sophisticated color
  selector.

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