purpleowl

Purple Owl is a free and open source cross-platform frame-by-frame cut-out animation software.

Part of Purple Animation Tools by O. Bahri Gordebak (purplehuman).

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 1.2.1 right now.

Features

Move, rotate, scale images of edit their pivot points (png, jpg)
Set parent and child objects for rigging
Lock/Unlock objects
Add a sound track (wav)
Playback your animation up to 30 fps
Add background images (png, jpg)
Send objects above or below other objects
Set background transparent or opaque
Render a png sequence
Restore rotation, scaling or pivot points
Save/open documents
Open last document
Work frame by frame like the old masters
Loop playback
Onionskinning for 1, 3, or 5 frames
Change images of objects
Flip objects horizontally or vertically
Rotate objects for 15 degrees
Work without a mouse if you want
Render a video if ffmpeg is available (Win32 binaries include ffmpeg)

Project Samples

Project Activity

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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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