Compare the Top Animation Software for Mac as of December 2025 - Page 2

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    Realsoft 3D

    Realsoft 3D

    Realsoft Graphics

    Open design combined with a rich set of features has been the main strength of Realsoft 3D. Feature wise, Realsoft 3D challenges the most famous competitors and offers a better price/performance ratio. In some areas (e.g. SDS modelling, ray tracing), the product is the best on the market. Another major advantage is that the intelligent, context sensitive user interface is suitable for both novice users and skilled professionals. The program grows with and adapts to the skill level of the user. The program is used in different applications, for example by artists working in the advertising industry, architects, product designers, educational institutions, game industry and hobby users. As a versatile yet affordable product ($700), Realsoft 3D has quite a large group of potential users. Realsoft 3D is a powerful tool for making best quality photorealistic images, and there is a huge number of people who need images every day.
    Starting Price: $700
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    AvatarBuilder

    AvatarBuilder

    AvatarBuilder

    3D Avatars are simple, elegant and astonishingly captivating. They command attention and hold it till the end of the video! Produce superior and impressive videos in minutes and stand out from the crowd. Put your video marketing on steroids with futuristic 3D avatars and next-generation animated videos. Evoke emotions, elevate your storytelling, engage and convert audiences like never before with super unique 3D talking avatars. Boost authority, build credibility and magnify trust to skyrocket your results. Save money and replace expensive human spokespersons and voiceover artists. Attract more customers, sales and leads without any experience, fancy equipment or being on camera. Capture and keep attention to get up to 10X more engagement and slash your advertising costs in half. Create videos in any language for true global reach to multiply your profits. AvatarBuilder is your shortcut to create attention grabbing, mesmerizing and studio-quality videos within minutes.
    Starting Price: $49 one-time payment
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    Poser

    Poser

    Poser

    Poser is a 3D computer graphics program optimized for 3D modeling of human figures. It is known for enabling digital artists to easily produce 3D animations and digital images, as well as the extensive availability of third-party digital content. Since 1995, Poser has been the go-to software tool for 3D characters in illustration and animation for over 500,000 digital artists. Poser is a digital stage that gives you full creative control. Work with 3D figures for any project requiring rendered images or animated video. Drag 3D content right from Poser’s own library of over 5 GB of content onto the stage and into your scene. Upgrade to Poser 12 from any Poser 11 license. Enjoy GPU rendering and import/export support for major 3D software packages. Poser 12 is a 3D universe that allows users to easily illustrate and animate using its new features including a new SuperFly render engine, expanded graphic card support, a new post effects palette, Python 3 support, and more.
    Starting Price: $249.95 one-time payment
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    Live2D

    Live2D

    Live2D

    This technology is often compared to 3D animation. However with 3D animation, an entirely new model is constructed based on the original illustration, while Live2D utilizes the original illustration directly. This allows you to provide dynamic expressions while directly harnessing the charm of the drawn character. The use of Live2D software technology breathes life into your drawn character and generates a much greater effect from the static art. This will help your audience develop a stronger emotional attachment to the character. Many of the works created using Live2D have their origins in traditional 2D, whether a visual novel or famous illustration. This demonstrates that 2D artists and fans value Live2D’s advantage in preserving the authenticity and rich graphics of the original 2D art rendered in modern applications.
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    RoughAnimator

    RoughAnimator

    RoughAnimator

    Fully featured hand-drawn animation application runs on iPad, Android, Mac, and Windows. Powerful enough for professional animators, and simple enough for beginners. Everything you need to create traditional hand-drawn animation, anywhere you go. Timeline with unlimited layers and easily adjustable exposure length of individual drawings, for pose-to-pose or straight-ahead, animating. Onion skinning, preview playback, scrub along the timeline. Import audio for lip-syncing. Import video for rotoscoping animation. Custom brushes, and support for Samsung S-Pen and other pressure-sensitive Android devices. Supports Apple Pencil, Logitech Crayon, Adonit & Wacom styluses for iPad. Control framerate and resolution. Export animation to Quicktime video, GIF, or image sequence. RoughAnimator projects can be imported to Adobe Flash/Animate, After Effects, and Toon Boom Harmony. RoughAnimator is the most powerful hand-drawn animation program in this price range.
    Starting Price: $5.99 one-time payment
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    VIMAGE

    VIMAGE

    VIMAGE

    Breathe life into your photos with our multiple award-winning tool! VIMAGE is a cinemagraph creator app that lets you animate your image and add hundreds of moving photo effects, presets, filters, and overlays onto your photos and turn them into creative living pictures, wallpapers and save them as videos or GIFs. Share your art and get instant exposure! Cinemagraphs are the latest trend for telling engaging animation stories about your life and sharing it with friends and loved ones. VIMAGE is an amazing tool to put creative, eye-catching overlays with blur, brightness, contrast on your pictures, slideshows and visual marketing content. Create moving photos and live pictures with ease, while having fun. Whether you are a photographer or just a casual storyteller taking pictures in nature, VIMAGE will up your photography skills in no time.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Expressive Animator

    Expressive Animator

    Expressive™

    Expressive Animator is an SVG vector animation software that helps users create and export animated icons, logos, and illustrations. It provides professional vector tools and keyframe-based timeline animation features for bringing motion to vector graphics. Users can import SVG, PDF, Adobe Illustrator files, and Figma designs, and animate them using easing controls, motion paths, masking, and other techniques. Expressive Animator also allow users to export their animations in other formats as Lottie, GIF, PNG, and video.
    Starting Price: €129.99 one-time payment
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    KeyShot

    KeyShot

    KeyShot

    KeyShot brings you real-time 3D rendering that displays results instantly and reduces the time to create realistic product visuals. KeyShot is trusted by brands around the world for its speed, ease of use, scientifically accurate materials, and advanced material editing capabilities. Communicate your ideas easier, explore concepts sooner, and deliver jaw-dropping visuals faster – Try KeyShot today. KeyShot includes native support for over 30 leading 3D file formats. Free plugins offer one-click loading, while LiveLinking keeps your design in sync across applications. Whether it’s a small gadget or a massive assembly, using KeyShot means less time loading and more time creating. KeyShot includes over 750 preset materials, with thousands more on the KeyShot Cloud, and advanced capabilities to create your own. Apply textures, labels, and variations with ease. KeyShot’s powerful lighting, studio, and image tools allow you to capture and style the perfect shot, every time.
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    Cheetah3D

    Cheetah3D

    Cheetah3D

    Cheetah3D is a powerful and easy to learn 3D modeling, rendering and animation software which was developed from the ground up for Mac. So jump right into the world of computer generated imaging, create 3D artwork for your next iPhone game or make your first animated character. With a full set of polygon, subdivision surface and spline modeling tools the artists can focus on creating, safe in the knowledge that Cheetah3D has a breadth of features for the task. Cheetah3D makes modeling in 3D a breeze for new and experienced users alike. Character rigging is part of the seamless animation system of Cheetah3D where just about every property of an object can be animated. Breathe life into a character for your next iPhone game or animate an architectural fly-through by the powerful animation system built into Cheetah3D. Cheetah3D smoothly integrates the industrial strength Bullet physics engine to simulate rigid body and soft body dynamics.
    Starting Price: $99
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    EQUINOX-3D

    EQUINOX-3D

    EQUINOX-3D

    The 3D modeler with the fastest, fully integrated ray-tracer. Because "rasterization is so 20th century™" 3D modeling, animation, photorealistic rendering, photorealistic VR content creation, CAD/CAM, 3D printing, laser-cutting and much more! Why is EQUINOX-3D better? As our artist said: "all engineers should be forced to use the software they write". I use EQX many hours a day and there is no need to force me! Super-fast photorealistic renderer, the first fully integrated interactive ray-tracer in a modeler. You can do full editing/modeling on ray-traced windows! Powerful subdivision surface modeling. Powerful CAD/CAM features, 3D printing and laser-cutting support. Universal rendering API that allows full modeling on any renderer and fully integrated Cg renderer with a quality that closely matches the ray-tracer. HDR texture support and HDR rendering output. Super fast importance-sampled HDR environment light support.
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    Mixamo

    Mixamo

    Adobe

    Animate 3D characters for games, film, and more. Empowering creativity with animated 3D characters. Bring your projects to life with 3D characters, skeletal rigs, and animations, ready for use in film, games, interactive experiences and illustration. Browse a collection of high-quality 3D characters. From realistic to cartoon, fantasy to sci-fi, there’s a character for every purpose. Each character comes fully textured and rigged so you can use immediately in your creative projects. Upload your custom character to Mixamo and get an automatically rigged full human skeleton, custom fit to your model and ready to animate. Customize your rigging options with optimizations for mobile performance. Explore a library of thousands of full-body character animations, captured from professional motion actors. Each animation is transferred to your own character and can be previewed and edited directly with Mixamo, so you can control the look and feel of each motion.
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    LottieFiles

    LottieFiles

    LottieFiles

    LottieFiles provides all the tools that you need to create, edit, test and display Lottie animations. Lottie is an open-source animation file format that’s tiny, high quality, interactive, and can be manipulated at runtime. The top 500 apps on the App store now use Lottie to engage users and enhance conversions. Welcome to the largest community of designers and developers using Lottie. An extensive, curated library of free assets awaits you. We have developed simple tools and integrations that require almost no learning curve and make shipping a Lottie fast and seamless. With our drag & drop online editor, you can customize any Lottie animation and download a ready-to-publish file. The LottieFiles plugin for Adobe After Effects lets you go with the flow without leaving the interface, so you can stay in the zone. No matter what platform you’re using, it’s easy to embed animations into your website with just a few clicks.
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    VTube Studio

    VTube Studio

    VTube Studio

    Thanks to webcam and iPhone face tracking, VTube Studio provides accurate control over your Live2D model, including eye-tracking and winking (might have to practice that one a bit though) VTube Studio now also supports hand tracking! VTube Studio can do everything you'll need and more! Hotkeys to control everything in your scene, microphone-lipsync, animated PNG props tracking your model and much more! People in our Community Discord server are there to help you! Got a cool pair or sunglasses you want your model to wear? Easy! Just import and attach props directly to your Live2D model. This supports images, animations and even highly-customizable Live2D props with their own tracking and hotkeys. Use your speech to control your model’s mouth movements or any other Live2D parameter of your model.
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    Rive

    Rive

    Rive

    Use Rive's familiar design and animation tools with our ground-breaking State Machine to create interactive content for your products, apps, sites, and games. No code or full code, you choose. Easily embed interactive animations or manipulate everything with code — Rive empowers you to work the way you want. The Rive Renderer can draw an unprecedented amount of vectors on screen. Everything on the screen animates at 120 fps with perfect quality. Rive files are a fraction of the size of videos, GIFs, image sequences, or JSON-based formats. Whether you bundle your animations or deliver them remotely, our optimized format helps keep your app small. Our runtimes are transparent, giving you the ability to evaluate, contribute, or modify them. Our runtimes give you the power to easily control your Rive files on any platform. Simply play the file as designed in the editor or manipulate everything with code.
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    Doodleoze

    Doodleoze

    Doodleoze

    Doodleoze Is One of The First And Best Doodle Video Creation Applications To Allow Anyone, Regardless Of Technical Or Visual Skills To Easily CreatePro Level, Realistic Doodle Videos. You will no longer need to pay outrageous fees and wait for weeks or sometimes even months for designers or videographers to create the perfect hand-sketched doodle video for you! Now you can create your own pro level videos in just a few minutes without previous experience or knowledge. Thanks to Doodleoze, the end result is often better than what the professionals deliver. Plus you get 100% better flexibility! It can be used for all kinds of purposes, ranging from sales or social videos, special occasions or just for fun! The sky's the absolute limit! Doodleoze is new and revolutionary doodle video creator that focuses on helping you create attention grabbing, professional looking, explainer, sales, and training videos in just minutes.
    Starting Price: $97
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    TVPaint Animation

    TVPaint Animation

    TVPaint Developpement

    TVPaint Animation is a raster-based software made for animation and drawing.