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Krita – Fast, Flexible, and Free Photoshop Alternative Built by Artists

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Krita (formerly called KImageShop, Krayon) is a free, open-source and cross-platform digital painting software developed by Krita Foundation (part of the KDE Community) from Sweden. It is fully functional, capable of the entire painting process from drafting, lining, coloring to post-adjustment; can draw concept sketch, illustration, cartoon, animation, scene and 3D mapping; supports digital board, pressure sensing, anti-shake, layers, filters, color management, and other functions.

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Industry & Professional

[v3.72] Creature – Automated and revolutionary 2D skeletal animation tool

Creature (AKA: Creature Animation) is a powerful and advanced animation creation software for 2D biological characters, developed by Kestrel Moon Studios (Jiayi Chong) from China. It has an excellent workflow, which enables users to make amazing, complex and smooth professional animations in a very simple way within a few minutes. Therefore, it is very suitable for game developers, animation designers, and animation enthusiasts of any levels.

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Industry & Professional

Pivot Animator – 2D stickfigure animation maker

You may know nothing about what the match/stick man animation is, but I guess you probably have seen that someone used a very interesting dynamic GIF image or video starring a stick man while chatting or in some forum posts, or ever played some stick man type of online flash games or even PC games such like Ragdoll Masters and Rubber Ninjas series. If you are interested in creating a stick figure based 2D animation, then Pivot Animator this foolproof tool can cover your needs.

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Industry & Professional

[v7.0] Spriter – Ultimate sprite character creator for 2D game animation

Spriter is a popular sprite character creating tool for 2D game animation, which comes with powerful functions, friendly UI and simple operation. By means of the modular animation technology (to complete the integration of animation modules through assembly), it enables everybody (whether he or she has the experience of making animation or not) to be able to quickly and easily create exquisite, professional and well-worked sprite characters for 2D game animation.

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[v8.1] Toon Boom Studio – Retired but outstanding 2D vector animation creator

You’ve probably already known that, Toon Boom Studio (TBS for short) has been discontinued and replaced by Harmony Essentials. Here, AppNee only provides its simple introduction and related resources.

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