Pencil Alternatives

Synfig Studio

Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer...

Features:

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

OpenToonz

OpenToonz is an animation program that is a free software version of Toonz, the animation software used by Studio Ghibli, amongst others.

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

Karbon

Karbon, component of Calligra Suite , is the scalable vector drawing application in KDE. It allows artists to create complex drawings...

Features:

• High Availability
• SVG Editors
• Vector Drawing

TupiTube

Tupi is a design and authoring tool for digital artists interested in 2D Animation, fork of the KToon project, offering an interface...

Features:

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

Pencil2D

Pencil2D is an opensource animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, based on old Pencil software. It lets you...

Features:

• Frame by frame animation
• Drawing
• Symmetry brush

Wick Editor

A free and open-source tool for creating games, animations and everything in-between!.

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

sK1

sK1 is a powerful illustration program for the Linux platform that can substitute professional proprietary software like CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator.