Animation Software

Adobe Animate (or Animate CC) supports but replaces the former Adobe Flash, and allows users to design interactive animations for games, TV shows, and the web. With it, the vendor states users can bring cartoons and banner ads to life, create animated doodles and avatars, and add…

Adobe After Effects allows users to create cinematic movie titles, intros, and transitions, remove an object from a clip, start a fire or make it rain, or animate a logo or character. The vendor states that with After Effects, users can apply motion-graphics and animation to any…

Autodesk offers Maya, a 3D animation, modeling, simulation and rendering tool available to artists, animators, and educators.

Autodesk offers 3ds Max, 3D modeling and rendering software for design visualization, games, and animation. The vendor states that users can produce professional-quality 3D animations, renders, and models with an efficient and flexible toolset to help create better 3D content in…

Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite available in under the GNU General Public License. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline. Blender…

Pixologic in Los Angeles offers ZBrush, a digital sculpting and painting program for the 3D industry. Built within its interface, ZBrush offers tools for digital artists with an arsenal of features that have been developed with usability in mind, to create a user experience designed…

Maxon, headquartered in Germany, offers Cinema 4D, an animaton suite for 3D artists, which the vendor states is suitable for beginners and seasoned professionals alike, who can take advantage of Cinema 4D’s wide range of tools and features to achieve stunning results for demanding,…

TVPaint Animation is a bitmap animation software from French company TVPaint Développement.

Moho (formerly Anime Studio) is Complete Animation Software for Professionals and Digital Artists, which vendor Smith Micro Software headquartered in Pittsburgh states has been used in the Oscar nominated films, The Breadwinner and Song of the Sea, for Best Animated Feature Film.

Boinx Software headquartered in Puchheim offers iStopMotion, a stop motion animation software.

Toon Boom in Montreal offers Harmony, an animation toolset that allows users to create artwork, animate, add special effects and sound, composite and do final production all in the same tool. It is presented by the vendor as a one-stop-shop for everything animation — the consolidation…

Spine is an animation tool that focuses specifically on 2D animation for games, from Esoteric Software in Tacoma. Spine aims to have an efficient, streamlined workflow, both for creating animations using the editor and for making use of those animations in games using the Spine Runtimes.…

Dragonframe is a stop motion animation software from DZED Systems in California.