Good animation software?

[Yukon0009]

Anyone know any good free animation software for making, well, animations or video intros?

[Oxo]

Toonz just went free, as "OpenToonz". It's the tool that was being used by the Ghibli Studios and Matt Groening's team. Actually not that overwhelming, highly customizable, and there's a lot of online tutorials available already. So, you're asking this at the right time.

[Nikolai]

I like Blender (for 3D) and Synfig (for 2D -- you'll need to get a dev build for sound integration).  Good to hear about OpenToonz, though -- I'll have to check that out.

[Camacha]

On 21/05/2016 at 3:59 PM, Yukon0009 said:

Anyone know any good free animation software for making, well, animations or video intros?

What kind of animations do you want to do? 2D, 3D, simple graphics, more comprehensive scenes - what exactly?

[Yukon0009]

I'm thinking 2D mostly.

Thanks for the suggestions by the way.

Edited May 24, 2016 by Yukon0009

[Waxing_Kibbous]

Blender can do 2D stuff as well. Actually, Blender can do just about anything. If you look at the Blender Open movies the credits are done with Blender (see: Big Buck Bunny). Blender doesn't have a lot of built-in pre-made effects, but you can build things from scratch and will have a lot more control over things.

Edit: Specifically, you can do multi-plane animation using the orthogonal camera mode, which will flatten everything nicely- perspective mode can work if that's the visual style you want.

 

Edited May 25, 2016 by Waxing_Kibbous