What is Celluloid?
Celluloid is a free and open source 2D animation software for creating both bitmap and vector animations. It is designed to be simple, intuitive, and effective at making traditional animation.
Some key features of Celluloid include:
- Intuitive timeline for adding and organizing frames and layers
- Onion skinning for seeing frames before and after the current one
- Easy bitmap and vector drawing tools
- Frame linking for animating cutout and puppet-style characters
- Camera movement and parallax background animation
- Supports importing images, video clips, and audio
- Exports animations as video or image sequences
Celluloid runs on Linux, Windows, and macOS. The simple and responsive interface is optimized for pen tablet input. It keeps everything you need readily available to animate efficiently. Advanced features like bones and mesh deformation tools are coming soon.
If you want to make 2D animation with a smooth workflow and want to avoid the complexity of applications like Opentoonz or Synfig Studio, try out Celluloid. It's great for hobbyists, students, and indie animators looking for an intuitive tool.