

Anime Studio, formerly known as Moho ( ) a non-free example.Macromedia Director prior to version MX had a different interface ( ) which I prefer(ed) over Flash.Ikivo Animator is a good non-Free example producing SVG Tiny animations ( ).Adobe Flash (Formerly Macromedia Flash) is a good non-Free example.PD1.2 Free program for digital painting and limited animation.A powerful onionskin management, and notions of clip/storyboard, but could be slow in complex cases and slow computers.

Gimp-GAP (Gimp Animation Plugin) is a gimp plugin has some good interfaces for managing movements of objects (menu video=>movepath), layer management and apply effects along animation.Gimp the bitmap editor and it's included animation script for gif is really minimalistic and frame based.vector) animation program featuring key frame, motion curve, path animation using interpolation (IPO) curve editing combining with shape keys and deforming by a lattice (GPL) It uses blender like time line with multiple layers and Author plan to export SVG. Simple but already powerful basic animation. Pencil ( ) vector and bitmap free animation package using Qt toolkit run on Ubuntu ( reference), Win32 (XP and works fine on wine), and MacOSX.It features image morphing between drawings and output animation that is resolution independent both visually and temporally. Synfig ( link) is a film-quality 2D vector animation editor and renderer.Ktoon ( ) is a 2D Animation Toolkit designed by animators for animators, focused to the Cartoon Industry.Jahshaka ( ) multi-platform QT animation program powered mostly by OpenGL (GPL).Spalah Flash ( ) (not to be confused with Spalah CMS) "is a GTK2/GNOME2 based application for generating Macromedia SWF and W3C SVG animations." The GUI is today minimalist but the author is trying to integrate it with inkscape.LimSee2 ( ) is an excellent almost-free basis.F4l is a non-functional free-software mock-up of the Flash 4 interface.( ).QFlash is a FUNCTIONAL free-software mock-up of the Flash 4 interface, which can import SVG files but not edit them.Ajax Animator is a FUNCTIONAL web-based (ajax) free-software clone of the flash interface, and uses a SVG based format for saving and compiling animations ( ).


User interface for timeline-based animation Existing animation programs (Free & non-Free)
