Pencil2D is a free and open-source animation tool, which makes it ideal for all types of users, especially creatives who want to create basic animations without the overhead of software costs.

Last year, French software company Praxinos announced the beginning of a beta-test program for Odyssey, an ambitious 2d animation program powered by Unreal Engine. After five years of development ...

While some tools excel at 2D animation, others are designed to be the best 3D modeling software for professionals. So choose a tool that helps you bring your visions to life - and one that's at ...

Pencil is a very realistic sketching program and good 2D animation tool for the cost (free). Think of Pencil (free) as an animator’s digital sketchbook. It’s 2D; you can sketch things very ...

A new piece of software just released from animation startup Midas Touch Interactive called Midas Creature is designed to add secondary animation to 2d characters – automatically.

Adobe Animate offers simple tools to create smooth animation over a 2D canvas. The new features help improve the fluidity of the animation while giving you greater control over the end result. It ...

Apple’s latest prototype AI tool can animate images using text descriptions. It’s early days for Keyframer, which joins Apple’s expanding list of generative AI projects.

In the first-time director’s mind, Klaus was a film that called for its own singular aesthetic.Leaning into the look and feel of traditional 2D animation, Pablos developed tools and techniques ...

The 2D animation of today isn’t quite like cartoons of the past. With new techniques at their disposal, filmmakers are expanding the visuals they can create to tell rich, compelling stories.