Open Source Linux Animation Software
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View 13 business solutionsBrowse free open source Animation software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Animation software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Aseprite
Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool
Aseprite is a program to create animated sprites. Sprites are composed of layers & frames as separated concepts. Support for color profiles and different color modes: RGBA, Indexed (palettes up to 256 colors), Grayscale. Animation facilities, with real-time preview and onion skinning. Copy & paste. Drag & drop. Resize palette. Palette entries with alpha value. Select color harmonies. Create light and shadows with the shading ink. Create perfect strokes for pixel-art. Avoid extreme pixel distortions when rotating tiny sprites. Create patterns repeating the image in a 3x3 grid. Create custom brushes for dithering. Composite layers to create color effects. Open or save a sequence of images. Create animations and save them as .gif files. Export your work to sprite sheets in .png and .json files. Recovery your sprites in case of crash. Integrate Aseprite in your assets pipeline with the command-line interface (CLI). Store several animations in one texture atlas. -
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three.js
JavaScript 3D library
three.js is a lightweight and easy-to-use JavaScript 3D library with its own default WebGL renderer. It works by creating a scene with a camera and a geometric cube, the latter of which is added to the scene. This will become the animated object within the scene. A WebGL renderer is created for the scene and the camera, with an added viewport to the document.body element. Finally, the cube is animated within the scene for the camera. A plethora of examples can be found in the project’s website (https://threejs.org/) which use Canvas 2D, SVG and CSS3D renderers that the library also provides. -
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Pencil2D Animation
Pencil2D is an easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations
An easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations. Lightweight and easy to use so you can focus on animating and not on what button to hit next. Seamlessly switch between raster and vector workflows, allowing you to sketch, ink & paint on the go. Pencil2D is cross-platform and runs on Windows, macOS, Linux & FreeBSD. Pencil2D is completely open source and free to use, even commercially. -
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APNG Assembler
Creates APNG animation from PNG/TGA image sequence.
Creates highly optimized Animated PNG files from PNG/TGA image sequences. CLI versions available for all major OSes. GUI versions for Windows and macOS. Also, APNG Disassembler can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/apngdis -
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LVGL
Powerful and easy-to-use embedded GUI library with many widgets
Powerful and easy-to-use embedded GUI library with many widgets, advanced visual effects (opacity, antialiasing, animations), and low memory requirements (16K RAM, 64K Flash). LVGL provides everything you need to create an embedded GUI with easy-to-use graphical elements, beautiful visual effects, and a low memory footprint. LVGL is an open-source graphics library providing everything you need to create an embedded GUI with easy-to-use graphical elements, beautiful visual effects, and a low memory footprint. Create stunning user interfaces with LVGL! Take advantage of its platform-independent nature and use one library with small microcontrollers or high-end processors. The LVGL is a lightweight embedded library for displays and touchscreens providing everything required to build fully featured-embedded GUIs. Do you like Python? Create your UI in MicroPython with LVGL. -
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OpenToonz
An open-source full-featured 2D animation creation software
OpenToonz is an open-source 2D animation production application published by DWANGO and based on the Toonz software customized by Studio Ghibli. It is designed for full animation workflows, including drawing, scanning, cleanup, coloring, compositing, effects, and final output. The project is especially notable because it connects professional animation heritage with an open-source development model. Artists can use it for traditional frame-by-frame animation, digital production pipelines, and experimental visual workflows. It supports desktop use across major operating systems and continues to be maintained by a public contributor community. OpenToonz is best suited for animators, studios, students, and independent creators who need a powerful 2D animation tool without a proprietary license barrier. -
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Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality 2D animation with fewer people and resources.
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GLMixer
Graphic Live Mixer
GLMixer performs real time graphical blending of several movie clips and of computer generated graphics. Drop video files in the mixing workspace and place them in a circular area to change their opacity ; if you selects two videos, moving them together performs a fading transition. This principle generalizes to a large number of videos. Direct interaction with the video allows to be fast and reactive, and to move and deform them on screen. The output of your operations is shown in the output window, typically displayed in full-screen on an external monitor or a projector. But the output can also be saved as a video file. Control GLMixer through network using OpenSoundControl, and generate graphics with ShaderToy GLSL code. Download : https://sourceforge.net/projects/glmixer/files/ Please note GLMixer is discontinued and superseded by vimix https://brunoherbelin.github.io/vimix/ -
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FastLED
The FastLED library for colored LED animation on Arduino
FastLED is a fast, efficient, easy-to-use Arduino library for programming addressable LED strips and pixels such as WS2810, WS2811, LPD8806, Neopixel and more. FastLED is used by thousands of developers, in countless art and hobby projects, and in numerous commercial products. We build FastLED to help you get started faster, develop your code faster, and make your code run faster. FastLED supports popular LEDs including Neopixel, WS2801, WS2811, WS2812B, LPD8806, TM1809, and more. The library runs on a wide range of Arduino and compatible boards, including both AVR- and ARM- based microcontrollers. In addition to fast, efficient, compatible LED driver code, FastLED also provides features that get your animations up and running fast. -
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Manim
A community-maintained Python framework for creating animations
A community-maintained Python library for creating mathematical animations. Manim is a free and open-source project originally written by Grant Sanderson. It is now maintained by the Manim Community and permissively released under the MIT license. Manim was originally created by Grant Sanderson as a personal project and for use in his YouTube channel, 3Blue1Brown. As his channel gained popularity, many grew to like the style of his animations and wanted to use manim for their own projects. However, as manim was only intended for personal use, it was very difficult for other users to install and use it. Manim, or ManimCE refers to the community-maintained version of the library. This is the version documented on this website; the package name on PyPI is manim. ManimGL is the latest released version of the library developed by Grant “3b1b” Sanderson. It has more experimental features and breaking changes between versions are not documented. -
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Friction
powerful and versatile motion graphics application
Friction is a powerful and versatile motion graphics application that allows you to create stunning vector and raster animations for web and video platforms with ease. -
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Monster Mash
New Sketch-Based Modeling and Animation Tool
Monster Mash is a playful, research-grade 2D-to-3D modeling and animation tool that turns quick pen strokes into lively, deformable characters in seconds. You sketch a silhouette and interior strokes to hint at limbs or structure, then “inflate” the drawing into a volumetric, puppet-like mesh that preserves the feel of the original art. The interface favors immediacy: draw, inflate, pose, and record motion directly in the canvas, without manual rigging, weight painting, or complicated asset pipelines. Under the hood it builds a lightweight surface and auto-assigns handles so you can grab and move parts intuitively, with smooth deformations propagating across the body. Because it runs interactively, artists iterate rapidly—blocking poses, trying alternate proportions, or recording short performances—before exporting results downstream. It’s equally useful for education, previs, and indie production where fast iteration trumps photorealism. -
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TupiTube Desk
2D Animation Tool for Children and Teenagers
TupiTube Desk is a 2D animation tool for desktop environments focused on usability for children and amateur artists. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems -
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anime.js
JavaScript animation engine
anime.js is a lightweight JavaScript animation library that allows you to create complex animations with a single, powerful API. It works with just about anything web-based: CSS properties, SVG, DOM attributes and JavaScript Objects. anime.js makes it easy to create layered and complex animations, and gives you full control of timing and triggering events so they move exactly how and when you want them. It supports some of the latest browsers, and offers plenty of examples and demonstrations to get you animating in no time. Animate everything you want simply and easily with anime.js. -
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APNG to GIF
Convert APNG animations into animated GIF format.
This program converts APNG animations into animated GIF format. Wu64 quantization is used for true-color files. Transparency is handled either using a threshold, or composed over chosen background color. CLI version is OS-independent, GUI version is available for Windows. Another converter: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gif2apng -
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qStopMotion is a application for creating stop-motion animation movies. The users will be able to create stop-motions from pictures imported from a camera or from the harddrive and export the animation to different video formats such as mpeg or avi.
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Animated Drawings
Code to accompany "A Method for Animating Children's Drawings"
AnimatedDrawings is a framework that converts user sketches or line drawings into fully animated 2D motion sequences using learned motion priors. The idea is that you draw a simple static figure (stick figure, silhouette, or contour lines), and the system produces plausible skeletal motion (walking, jumping, dancing) that adheres to the drawn shape constraints. The architecture separates shape embedding (to understand user-drawn geometry) from motion embedding / generation (to produce temporally coherent movement). Users can provide rough keyframes or control constraints (pose anchors), and the system fills intermediate frames with fluid animation. The repository includes demonstration apps and notebooks where you can upload or draw shapes and watch animations play. Because the approach is data-driven, it generalizes to new drawings even with varying proportions or stylizations. -
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Animate.css
Just-add-water CSS animations
Animate.css is a cross-browser library of cool and fun CSS animations. When you need to add some oomph and awesomeness to your projects, simply slide in one of these just-add-water animations and watch your visuals significantly improve! Using Animate.css animations is incredibly simple and easy. It takes just a couple of steps to get an awesome CSS animated element. Choose from a wide array of animations, and control their speeds. Use these animations to make a statement, for emphasis, to grab attention, or simply to liven up the look of your project. -
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DragonBonesAS
DragonBones ActionScript Runtime
DragonBonesAS is a skeletal animation framework for ActionScript 3 and Flash, designed to simplify the implementation of complex 2D animations. It separates the animation data from display logic, allowing developers to reuse assets, blend animations, and reduce draw calls. DragonBones supports the creation of character rigs, timelines, and inverse kinematics, making it popular in Flash-based game development. -
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CountUp.js
Animates a numerical value by counting to it
CountUp.js is a dependency-free, lightweight JavaScript class that can be used to quickly create animations that display numerical data in a more interesting way. Install via npm/yarn using the package name countup.js. Despite its name, CountUp can count in either direction, depending on the start and end values that you pass. CountUp.js supports all browsers. MIT license. CountUp v2 is distributed as an ES6 module because it is the most standardized and most widely compatible module for browsers, though a UMD module is also included. To run module-enabled scripts locally, you'll need a simple local server setup, because otherwise you may see a CORS error when your browser tries to load the script as a module. CountUp is also wrapped as a UMD module in ./dist/countUp.umd.js and it exposes CountUp as a global variable on the window scope. -
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Juggling Lab
Juggling Lab juggling animator
Juggling Lab is an open-source juggling simulation and animation software designed to visualize juggling patterns. It allows users to create, simulate, and analyze various juggling sequences, offering both 2D and 3D visualizations. Juggling Lab is highly customizable, supporting complex patterns and siteswap notation, making it a valuable tool for jugglers, performers, and enthusiasts looking to practice or study new routines. -
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GIF to APNG
Convert GIF animations into APNG format.
This program converts GIF animations into animated PNG format. Usually it makes the files smaller. CLI version is OS-independent, GUI version is available for Windows. Another converter: http://sourceforge.net/projects/apng2gif -
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Animatable
One property, two values, endless possiblities
Animatable is an interactive web gallery that demonstrates which CSS properties can transition between two values. Each tile represents one property and continuously alternates between a defined starting and ending state. Visitors can animate every example at once or trigger individual demonstrations by hovering. Selecting a tile reveals the property name, both values, authorship information, and controls for moving to adjacent examples. Keyboard navigation supports Escape and the arrow keys for faster exploration. The page generates its keyframes dynamically with JavaScript and applies compatibility fixes through StyleFix. It serves as a visual reference and experimental showcase rather than a general-purpose animation library. -
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Flint
Actionscript 3 Particle Engine for Flash and Flex
Flint is an ActionScript 3 particle engine designed for creating rich particle effects in Flash and Flex applications, providing tools for animations like fire, smoke, and explosions. This first tutorial will introduce the basics of Flint through a project to create a snow effect. Our effect will be snow flakes drifting down the screen. Each snow flake will be a particle in our particle system. If you want to see the final effect, scroll to the bottom of the page. This tutorial works with version 4.0.0 of the Flint library. This example creates a 2D particle effect. For 3D particle effects the principles are the same but you use a 3D emitter and 3D behaviours. First create a new Flash file (Actionscript 3). Set the stage size to 500 pixels wide and 400 pixels high, set the frame rate to 30 fps and set the background color to black. -
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PersonaLive
Expressive Portrait Image Animation for Live Streaming
PersonaLive is an open-source diffusion-based portrait animation framework focused on generating expressive, long-duration animated sequences in real time, primarily for live streaming or interactive applications. It leverages deep generative models that condition on a static reference image and a driving input (such as motion or expression cues) to produce a seamless animated portrait sequence that can run indefinitely without segmentation artifacts. The framework prioritizes low-latency and streamable output, making it suitable for real-time creative workflows, broadcast overlays, or interactive avatars on consumer-grade GPUs. PersonaLive’s architecture balances visual quality and efficiency by combining motion encoding, temporal modules, and hybrid implicit control signals to preserve identity and stable expression through long sequences.
