Adobe Animate CC Alternatives

Animation Desk

Animation Desk is a perfect tool for animating, storyboarding, and sketching. It’s an app Loved by professional and amateur animators, Youtubers, and many art lovers. Draw you frame-to-frame animation from scratch, or create animations upon videos, images, PSD layers. Share your animations on social media or export your own story-board (PDF/animatic) for further use.

Features:

• Onion skining
• Frame by frame animation
• Live screen recording
• Mobile apps
• Animated Videos
• Background image in animation
• Painting Tools
• Sketch to PSD
• Stamps
• Symmetry brush
• Video import
• Animation
• Animation maker
• Animations
• Apple Pencil support
• Built-in PDF converter
• Drawing
• Support for Layers
• Rotoscoping
• Convert Videos to Animated GIFs

Synfig Studio

Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork. It eliminates the need to create animation frame-by frame, allowing you to produce 2D animation of a higher quality with fewer people and resources. Synfig Studio is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS X.

Features:

• Animation
• Bones and Layers
• Cutout animation tools
• Frame by frame animation
• Timeline-based
• Tweening

OpenToonz

This is software for producing a 2D animation. It is based on the software "Toonz", which was developed by Digital Video S.p.A. in Italy, customized by Studio Ghibli, and has been used for creating its works for many years. Dwango launches this OpenToonz project, in cooperation with Digital Video and Studio Ghibli. This software can be used by anyone free of charge, no matter whether the purpose of use is commercial or not.

Features:

• 3d camera
• Color correction
• Complex hierarchies
• Cutout animation tools
• Expressions system
• Feature tracking system
• Keyframe animation
• Particle Engine
• Plugin API
• Powerful nodal effects system
• Remote camera control
• Scanned drawings cleanup
• Scripting
• Stop Motion
• Vector Drawing
• Vectorize raster images
• Version Control Integration
• Animation
• Anime
• Frame by frame
• Schema editor
• Tweening

TupiTube

Tupi is a design and authoring tool for digital artists interested in 2D Animation, fork of the KToon project, offering an interface experience focused on 8-100 years old kids.

Features:

• Beginner friendly
• Flash-Like
• Support for Layers
• Rotoscoping

Wick Editor

The Wick Editor is a free and open-source tool for creating games, animations, and everything in-between. It's designed to be the most accessible tool for creating multimedia projects on the web. Your creations can run on any device with a web browser - that means mobile too. And since the Wick Editor lives in the browser, you don't have to download any extra software to use it!

Features:

• HTML5 Support
• Support for Layers
• Movie clips
• Tweening
• Vector Drawing
• Frame by frame
• Frame by frame animation
• Support for Javascript
• Keyframe animation
• Saving a copy of every URL you visit

Hype

Create stunning animated and interactive web content with Hype. Hype’s HTML5 output works on all modern browsers and mobile devices like iPhones and iPads. No coding required. Hype is used by leading designers to create animations which add a “wow” factor to web pages, infographics, presentations, digital magazines, ads, iBooks, educational content, app prototypes, portfolios, animated GIFs, videos, entire websites, and much more. Hype won the 2011 Macworld Editors’ Choice Award.

Features:

• Animation
• Export to MP4
• Multiple timelines
• Responsive design
• Web Development

Verge3D

Verge3D is a powerful and intuitive toolkit that allows Blender, 3ds Max or Maya users to create immersive web-based experiences. Verge3D can be used to build interactive animations, product configurators, engaging presentations of any kind, online stores, explainers, e-learning content, portfolios, ads, and browser games.

Features:

• WebGL
• Export to WebGL
• 3ds Max Integration
• Blender Integration
• Visual Programming
• Armature animation
• No coding required
• 3D modelling
• Augmented Reality
• Ecommerce integration
• Interactive Visualization
• JavaScript Rendering
• Keyframe animation
• Physically-Based Rendering
• Real time rendering
• Virtual Reality
• Web-Based
• 3d animation
• GlTF Support
• Web Development
• Web hosting
• Webrender
• WebVR

ENIGMA - LateralGM

ENIGMA, the Extensible Non-Interpreted Game Maker Augmentation, is an open source cross-platform game development environment derived from that of the popular software GameMaker. Its intention is to provide you with a quality game creation tool and a bridge between high- and low-level programming languages. It can be used either through an IDE, namely, its sister project, LateralGM, or through a Command line interface.

TVPaint Animation

TVP Animation is the leading paperless drawing and animation tool, able to imitate traditional techniques such as Pen Brush, Gouache, Watercolour, Pencil, Felt-tip and Airbrush, and animate them over frames. Using only TVP Animation, you can create an animated movie from start to finish, including storyboarding and all the steps (rough, clean-up, keyframes and in-betweening) through to final compositing.

Features:

• Animation
• Drawing
• Frame by frame

Toon Boom Harmony

Toon Boom Harmony Network is the industrial animation software for studios worldwide. BRUSH ENGINE Brushes in Harmony are now better than ever for creative drawing. Draw with your own personal style. PALETTES AND PAINTING See how Harmony provides total control over texture and colour on every frame. Colour your world. TRADITIONAL PAPERLESS ANIMATION Harmony is built from the ground up for animation. See why it’s the go-to tool for animators working in any style.

Features:

• Tweening
• 3d animation
• Animation
• Frame by frame animation
• Keyframe animation
• Vector strokes