FOSS Tools - Pencil2D Animation

Today I’ll introduce you to Pencil 2D Animation - https://www.pencil2d.org/ - An easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations.

 - Take a look at the “Complete Tutorial Video at https://www.youtube.com/embed/nCX55XLx1F0 - which is a free simple and easy to use 2D animation software, aimed at beginners, from the “Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Movement”.

Pencil 2D Animation has a very small learning curve, so it is ideal for any beginner. Where the user only focuses on the design part, rather than worrying about implementation.

Pencil 2D Animation’s interface is broken down into 5 main areas. ..

1. Menu contains the usual options
2. Canvas is the part that is going to be focused by the camera. And entire area surrounding the canvas is the stage.
3. Tools & Properties is where we select the tools and set its properties, like when we select brush, we get to set its property of brush size to be higher or lower using the property section.
4. Colour Selector in this section, there is the colour wheel, along with manual colour setting option and a colour palette. Which will aid in selecting and blending colours.
5. Animation section is where we bring instruct when the object in the canvas area be articulating. Remember Pencil 2D is used for only simple Timeline or Key-Frame Animation.

For a short and simple tutorial where only the basics are covered visit https://www.youtube.com/embed/nCX55XLx1F0 and/or for Pencil2D User Showcase watch https://www.youtube.com/embed/aa9PCu_UZpg

If you give Pencil 2D Animation a try or have already used Pencil 2D Animation, do share your feedback, positive and/or negative, in the comments.

Thank you

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