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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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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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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XR Animator
AI-based Full Body Motion Capture and Extended Reality (XR) solution
XR Animator is a free, open-source motion capture application designed for VTubing, avatar animation, and extended reality experiences. It uses Google MediaPipe to track body movements through a webcam or recorded media. Users can animate VRM and MMD avatars using facial expressions, hand movements, and full-body poses. The software supports ARKit-compatible facial blendshapes for detailed expression tracking. Motion capture recordings can be exported in formats such as VMD, BVH, and glTF. Users can customize virtual scenes with images, videos, panoramas, and 3D objects. Desktop versions provide transparent backgrounds and VMC protocol integration. Available through browsers and desktop applications, XR Animator supports flexible virtual character production. -
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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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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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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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cables Standalone
Cables.gl standalone version
cables.gl Standalone is a cross-platform visual programming environment for creating interactive graphics, animations, and real-time visual experiences. It packages the cables.gl editor into an Electron desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Users can build projects by connecting visual operators called ops instead of writing extensive code. Its node-based workflow supports generative art, interactive installations, and shader-driven graphics. The desktop edition brings the editor and its operators into a standalone environment with additional access to local system capabilities. Developers can create custom operators and experiment with JavaScript-based interactions. Command-line options allow launching the editor in fullscreen mode or maximizing its renderer. The application remains under active development, with experimental capabilities and evolving desktop integration. -
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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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srt-whiteboard-animation
Make SRT into a streaming handwriting whiteboard hand-drawn animation
srt-whiteboard-animation is an AI skill for turning SRT subtitle files into hand-drawn whiteboard videos that follow the narrative order of the captions. It parses subtitles and recommends scene divisions, typically targeting segments of about 25 to 35 seconds. Each scene is planned around one core idea before artwork and annotations are prepared. Semantic drawing order connects visual elements to specific subtitle events rather than relying only on coordinates. A streaming renderer first reveals ink strokes and then progressively adds color. Users can adjust regions, timing, sequence, and subtitle associations in a browser preview before rendering scenes and merging them into a final MP4. -
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RyzomBlend
Blender port of Ryzom art data
Blender port of ryzom (http://ryzom.com/) data by Brian Ashcroft Original art (3ds max) and open source server available at http://ryzomcore.org/ All art is covered by the CC-BY-SA licence If you use the art, please make sure to include a link as explained here http://ryzomcore.org/about-ryzom-core/ Things that are working: 1. Conversion of 1200 animations, ~200 monsters, 5 races, and lots of vegetation. 2. Removal of weird textures/materials/supports, correction of bad paths 3. Cleanup of translations and rotations of all the items 4. Proper parenting 5. Collection of animations into separate files: walking, crafts, fighting ... -
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astrofox
Motion graphics program that lets you turn audio into stunning visuals
Astrofox is a free, open-source motion graphics application that transforms audio into animated visual content. It allows musicians, video creators, and artists to produce audio-reactive graphics for music videos and visual presentations. Users can combine visual elements, text, and audio-driven effects to create compositions that respond to sound. Projects can be saved locally in the native AFX format and reopened for further editing. The application runs in a browser or as an Electron desktop program. Its desktop edition supports offline operation and can use fonts installed on the computer. Video rendering uses browser recording capabilities or FFmpeg, depending on the platform. An optional MCP server allows compatible external tools to automate supported editing operations. -
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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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UniMate
UniMate: One Unified Model to Animate Diverse Skeletons
UniMate is a generative motion model that animates rigged 3D assets with different skeletal structures from natural-language prompts. It is designed to handle bipeds, quadrupeds, birds, marine creatures, insects, serpentine rigs, and articulated rigid objects with one unified model. Its topology-aware diffusion transformer conditions generation on skeleton structure rather than requiring a fixed character template. The accompanying UniML3D dataset contains 13,006 text-paired motion sequences with unified skeletal canonicalization. Inference can generate motion for unseen skeleton topologies without per-skeleton retraining or test-time optimization. The same model supports text-guided motion editing, in-betweening, and longer motion expansion. Training, inference, data processing, and preview checkpoints are provided for research use. -
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
