anpanring/pencil

Pencil2D is an easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations. Pencil2D is open source and cross-platform.

Pencil2D Animation

Pencil2D is an animation/drawing software for Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil2D is free and open source.

Here is a video demonstrating the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma52j9B1kEM

Pencil2D Website: https://www.pencil2d.org/

User Showcase

User Showcase Reel 2022

Using Pencil2D

Note that the following guides and documentation are outdated.

• Quick Reference - Web version of the PDF guide included with Pencil2D
• User Manual - End user documentation how-to
• FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

Download

Pencil2D 0.6.6 (17 Feb 2021)

You can download Pencil2D from the Official Website or Github releases

For first time users refer to the User Manual

If you run into any issues, make sure to check out the FAQ

Nightly Builds

Nightly builds are the bleeding edge versions of Pencil2D, which contains the most recent fixes and features. We currently do not offer legacy mac or 32-bit linux nightly builds. If you have one of these systems, you will have to wait for official releases or build the program from source.

Download Nightly Buildls

Contributing

• Issue Tracker - Report bugs or request features.
• Developer Guide - Learn how to compile Pencil2D yourself.
• Transifex - You can help translate Pencil2D, too.

Source Code

• GitHub: https://github.com/pencil2d/pencil (Primary)
• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/chchwy/pencil2d (Mirror)
• GitLab: https://gitlab.com/chchwy/pencil2d (Mirror 2)