Open Source Mac Animation Software
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View 46 business solutionsBrowse free open source Animation software and projects for Mac 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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css3-
CSS3 implements various 3D && 3D planetary animation effects
css3- is an extensive collection of CSS3 demonstrations and visual experiments that highlight modern styling capabilities through practical, hands-on examples. The repository focuses on helping front-end developers understand how to implement sophisticated UI effects using native browser features rather than heavy external libraries. It covers a wide range of topics including animations, layout tricks, transitions, and creative visual compositions. The project is structured as a reference-style showcase where each example isolates a specific technique, making it easy to study and adapt into real projects. Its educational value lies in revealing non-obvious CSS behaviors and encouraging deeper mastery of the styling layer. Overall, css3- serves as a comprehensive learning and inspiration resource for developers seeking to master advanced CSS3 techniques. -
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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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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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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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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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Jahshaka Studio
virtual reality authoring toolkit created by artists, for artists
Welcome to Jahshaka, the virtual reality authoring toolkit that was created by artists, for artists. The only way to build and publish virtual worlds. -
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SpinKit
A collection of loading indicators animated with CSS
Simple loading spinners animated with CSS. SpinKit only uses (transform and opacity) CSS animations to create smooth and easily customizable animations. Add spinkit.css or spinkit.min.css to your project (or copy-paste the CSS that you need for your spinner—there are no dependencies between spinners, no shared classes, and no shared animations, etc, so it should be fairly straight-forward to extract only the code that you need). Add a spinner to your project by copy-pasting HTML from spinkit.css or examples.html. Add the sk-center utility class to the spinner to center it (it sets margin to auto). By default, the width and height of all spinners are set to 40px. background-color is set to #333. Configure the spinner by overwriting the CSS variables, primarily --sk-size (spinner width & height) and --sk-color (spinner color). If you need broader browser support, remove the CSS variables. -
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APNG Disassembler
Deconstruct APNG file into a sequence of PNG frames.
This program converts APNG file into a sequence of individual PNG frames. Command-line interface and GUI viersions. Also, APNG Assembler can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/apngasm -
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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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Lottie
Render After Effects animations natively on Mobile, Web & React Native
Lottie is a wonderful library for Android, iOS, Web, and Windows that works by parsing Adobe After Effects animations that have been exported as json with Bodymovin, and then rendering these natively on mobile and on the web! Now you can have beautiful animations without engineers having to recreate everything by hand. Building animations by hand is time consuming, and other animation alternatives like Gifs and Png sequences don’t offer the same flexibility and varied features that Lottie offers. With Lottie, you can achieve exquisite animations exactly how you want, with no additional engineering effort whatsoever. Take a look at the many beautiful animation possibilities available to you on http://airbnb.io/lottie/ -
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Oil Motion
Create smooth, responsive interactive web animations
Oil Motion is an agent-agnostic skill for creating smooth interactive animations for websites and digital interfaces. Users describe the desired movement, available assets, and the interaction that should control it while the agent manages the production workflow. The system defines key states, generates continuous motion between them, reviews frames, removes artifacts, and prepares optimized assets. Animation progress can then be mapped to scrolling, mouse movement, dragging, touch input, device orientation, clicks, or component states. Reverse movement naturally follows the same frame sequence when the user reverses an interaction. The workflow also considers motion continuity, visual clarity, loading size, and mobile performance. It is suitable for product reveals, character interactions, demonstrations, data transitions, and narrative page sequences. -
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React Transition Group
Perform animations when a React component enters or leaves the DOM
Exposes simple components useful for defining entering and exiting transitions. React Transition Group is not an animation library like React-Motion, it does not animate styles by itself. Instead it exposes transition stages, manages classes and group elements and manipulates the DOM in useful ways, making the implementation of actual visual transitions much easier. Since react-transition-group is fairly small, the overhead of including the library in your application is negligible. However, in situations where it may be useful to benefit from an external CDN when bundling. A set of components for managing component states (including mounting and unmounting) over time, specifically designed with animation in mind. The Transition component lets you describe a transition from one component state to another over time with a simple declarative API. Most commonly it's used to animate the mounting and unmounting of a component.
