purpleelephant

Purple Elephant is a free and open source cross-platform 2D traditional animation editor, tester, player and compositor.

Part of Purple Animation Tools by O. Bahri Gordebak

See Wiki for details.

Note that Sourceforge project page doesn't always show the latest download. Please click Files above and browse files before download.

Latest version is 1.4 right now.

Features

Add layers above or below current one
Playback up to 30 fps
Add a sound track (wav)
Render a png sequence
Open Purple Owl files
Add, delete, insert, replace, duplicate frames (png, jpg)
Add or insert empty frames
Export current frame
Browse through frames easily
Loop playback
Save/open documents
Open last document
Work without a mouse if you want
Render a video if ffmpeg is avaiilable (Win32 binaries include ffmpeg)
Draw, paint or erase with your tablet or mouse
Undo Drawing/Erasing (Limited)
Go to frame
Rename layers
Change brush color and size
Onionskin for 2 Frames Back and 2 Frames Forward
Hide/Show Layers
Lock/Unlock Layers
Currently pressure sensitivity doesn't work because of QTBUG-33788

Project Samples

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License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

BSD, Linux, MinGW/MSYS2, Windows, WINE

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Programming Language

C++

Related Categories

C++ Animation Software

Registered

2015-01-07

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