Pencil2D

Pencil2D is an animation/drawing application for OSX, Windows and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animations (cartoons) using both bitmap and vector graphics.

Features

Bitmap & Vector Drawing
Camera Motion Tool
Move, Select & Transform Tools
Onion Skinning w/ Color Tint
Sound Import (MP3, WAV)
Still & Image Sequence Import / Export (BMP, JPG, PNG)
Video Export (MP4, AVI, WEBM) w/ Sound!
WEB Animation Image Export (GIF, APNG)
Desktop Cross-Platform (WIN, MAC, LINUX)
... and more!

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License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

FreeBSD, Linux, Mac, Windows

Languages

Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, Danish, English, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovene, Spanish, Vietnamese

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop, Other Audience

User Interface

Programming Language

C++

Related Categories

C++ Animation Software, C++ Drawing Software

Registered

2013-01-17

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