What is Poly Edit Lite?
Poly Edit Lite is a free 2D animation software designed for beginners to create simple 2D animations and sprite sheets. It comes with basic drawing and animation tools that allow users to draw vectors and bitmaps, create frame-by-frame animations, customize onion skinning, use bone rigging, and export animations as sprite sheets or animated GIFs.
As a lightweight software focused on 2D animation, Poly Edit Lite has an intuitive and minimalistic interface. The tools are easy to use for animators to quickly draw characters and objects, pose them, and animate frame-by-frame. Onion skinning helps users visualize previous and next frames for smooth transitions.
While powerful paid alternatives like Toon Boom or Adobe Animate have advanced features for professionals, Poly Edit Lite offers a basic free alternative for hobbyists and beginners to get started with 2D animation. Its simple interface and useful basic tools make it a good starting point to understand principles of 2D animation.
Poly Edit Lite works on Windows XP or higher. As it's optimized for 2D animation, it lacks advanced illustration or painting tools. But its focus on fast and easy 2D animation makes it an alternative worth considering for simple 2D projects.