Best Animation Software for Mac of 2024

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    Synfig Studio Reviews
    Synfig Studio is an open-source, free 2D animation software. It's designed to be a powerful industrial-strength tool for creating film-quality animations using vector and bitmap artwork. It eliminates the need for creating frame-by-frame animations, allowing you create 2D animation with lower resources and people. Transform any vector shape to another! Synfig gives you powerful tools to control your vector artwork. Simply set the key positions, and the intermediate frames are automatically calculated. Synfig has more than 50 layers that can be used to create animations and illustrations of any complexity. You can choose from a variety of layers, including geometry, gradients filters, distortions and transformations as well as filters. You can create cutout animations with bitmap images using the full-featured bone program or manage your vector artwork.
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    OpenToonz Reviews
    OpenToonz is a customized version of the software "Toonz" developed by Digital Video S.p.A.A. in Italy. It has been used for many years for the creation and maintenance of its works. In collaboration with Digital Video and Studio Ghibli, Dwango launched the OpenToonz Project. OpenToonz is available for free in both commercial and non-commercial projects. Open-source, so anyone can modify the source code. We are developing a new platform to connect academic research and cutting-edge animation production.
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    Unity Reviews
    Top Pick

    Unity

    Unity Technologies

    $35.00/month
    14 Ratings
    The best platform to create interactive, real-time content. You can quickly create 2D, 3D, and VR apps. Everything you need to bring your vision into reality, from artist tools to live-ops. Professionals can create and manage complete solutions. A complete solution for professionals in all industries to create and manage amazing applications and immersive experiences. Your splash screen can be changed. You can also remove it completely. Real-time data on crashes and exceptions, as well as user feedback, will give you a better understanding of what's going on in your game. Access to technical support from experts when you have issues will help minimize downtime. This product can be purchased separately through a Unity sales representative. Access and modify source code to meet your complex requirements. This is available as an additional purchase through a Unity representative.
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    Adobe After Effects Reviews
    Top Pick
    Cinematic movie titles, intros, transitions and transitions can be created. Take an object out of a clip. Make it rain or start a fire. You can animated a logo or character. After Effects is the industry-standard motion graphics software and visual effects software. You can make any idea move with After Effects. You can animated titles, credits, or lower thirds. You can start from scratch or use presets that are available directly from the app. Your text is always in motion, from swipe to slide to spin -- you can move it all. Combining images and videos can create anything you want. You can choose from hundreds of effects, remove unwanted people or objects, and create VR videos that will take your audience into the action. Keyframes and expressions can set anything in motion. Or use presets to kick-off your designs for unique results. Premiere Pro allows you to create compositions. Dynamic Link can be used to eliminate intermediate renderings between applications. Import from Photoshop and Illustrator, Character Animator and Adobe XD.
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    Moovly Reviews

    Moovly

    Moovly

    $25.00/month/user
    4 Ratings
    Moovly allows you to create animated videos, presentations, and other multimedia content online. You can create your company videos, animated tutorials and content marketing videos with a simple drag-and-drop interface. You can combine Moovly library objects and your own uploaded media (pictures sounds videos). You can animatedly time all objects using a user-friendly timeline. Export your content to any video format for projection or television, smartphone, tablet, or tablet.
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    Blender Reviews
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    Blender

    Blender Foundation

    8 Ratings
    Blender is a free and open-source 3D creation tool. It supports all aspects of the 3D pipeline: modeling, animation, simulations, rendering, motion tracking, compositing, rigging, rendering, compositing, composing, rigging, and video editing. Blender's powerful, unbiased path-tracer engine Cycles delivers stunning ultra-realistic rendering. Blender's extensive range of modeling tools makes it easy to create, transform, and edit your models. Blender is a top-rated tracker according to VFX professionals. Blender allows you to import raw footage and track objects. Blender allows you to import raw footage and track it, mask areas, and see the camera movements in real time in your 3D scene. It eliminates the need to switch between programs. Blender's high-quality rigging tools and animation tools are being used in many short films, commercials, and feature films.
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    Adobe Animate Reviews
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    Adobe Animate

    Adobe

    $20.99 per month
    9 Ratings
    Interactive animations can be created for TV, games, and the internet. Animations can bring cartoons and banner ads alive. Make animated doodles or avatars. Add action to eLearning content or infographics. Animate allows you to quickly publish to multiple platforms in almost any format and reach viewers on any screen. Powerful animation and illustrations can be used to create interactive web and mobile content. Create game environments, design start screens and integrate audio. Your animations can be shared as augmented reality experiences. Animate allows you to do all your asset design, coding and programming right within the app. Adobe Fresco Live Brushes allow you to draw and sketch more expressive characters. They blend and bloom exactly like the real thing. Simple frame-by-frame animations allow your characters to blink, talk, and move. Create interactive banners that respond to user interaction such as mouse movement, touch, clicks, and clicks.
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    Maya Reviews
    You can create vast worlds, complex characters, or dazzling effects. Engaging animation tools can bring life to believable characters. Maya®, a Maya®, software, allows you to create 3D objects and scenes. You can create realistic effects, from explosions to cloth simulation. You can quickly create blockbuster-worthy effects with a new visual programming environment that uses dynamic solvers. Bifrost Graph Editor allows you to create custom graphs. With ready-to-use graphs, you can create stunning effects such as snow and sand, dust storms, and explosions. Arnold can render your most complicated projects. Arnold is designed to handle complex characters, lighting, and scenery. Arnold integrates with Maya so you can quickly see high-quality previews of Arnold and make changes. Arnold's intuitive, artist-friendly interface and simple controls will help you save time.
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    Doodly Reviews

    Doodly

    Etison

    $39 per month
    3 Ratings
    Doodly is the only doodle video creator software that allows anyone, regardless how technical or creative, to create professional, realistic doodle videos within minutes. You won't have to pay exorbitant fees or wait for professional videographers and designers to create doodle videos. With little to no design or technical knowledge, you can create professional doodle sketches videos. Not only that, but your videos will be created in minutes and not weeks. The end result can be even more impressive than what professionals deliver. You can use it for sales, social media videos, special occasions or just for fun. Your imagination is the only limit! You can create unlimited whiteboard, greenboard, or blackboard doodle videos. Select a doodle image. Drag the image to the canvas by clicking and dragging it. Doodly will automatically draw it for you.
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    VidToon Reviews

    VidToon

    Atlas Web Solutions

    $49/Month
    3 Ratings
    Vidtoon 2.0 is a desktop-based 2D animation program that can be used in drag and dropped. This tool is compatible with both Mac and Windows. We have outdone ourselves. The All-New Editor works faster than ever before. We make it easy to create animated explainer videos in 2D. There are more ready-to-go animated characters for just about any scenario or niche that you want to dominate. You can create videos for your social media platforms using any resolution that best suits your platform. Our Microsoft and Google Dynamic text to speech options will give your animated explainer video a touch of reality. You can now create animated explainer videos that are up to 25 minutes long, as opposed to just 3 minutes earlier. You can make longer explainer videos to make more money.
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    Easy Sketch Pro Reviews
    Upload any video, and the software will draw the opening scene. Then it will create the amazing effect from Sketch to LIVE Video. The user can adjust the time it takes to draw the sketch before it goes live. You can add your music or voice to sketch and/or live videos. Drag 'N Drop Interface allows you to add your own text. You can add your own background music, voiceovers, or choose from our extensive library of pre-made tracks. You can upload your own images or you can use our vast collection of royalty-free images. Everything can be customized in any way you like. This is a powerful tool that can be used to sell your product to local businesses such as restaurants and fitness clients. The sketch will do the rest. You can create the exact style of video that you desire. Do you prefer a brush, hard pen or crayon? For kids teaching?
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    Raw Shorts Reviews

    Raw Shorts

    Raw Shorts

    $49.00/month
    3 Ratings
    Our text to animated video technology uses AI and creates a video draft in seconds. This saves you many hours of video creation. Here's how it works. Upload your video script first. Our machine learning algorithms scan the text to identify key concepts for your storyboard. Our AI finds media assets that match your script, places them on the timeline, and generates voice narration. You can simply review the instant draft or use our drag-and-drop editor to make any necessary adjustments and then publish! Drag and drop animation video maker makes it easy to customize your AI-generated video rough cut in just minutes. Raw Shorts can create amazing videos from Powerpoint slides. You can access the platform from any browser. It has powerful features such as text to speech and animated charts.
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    Animation:Master Reviews
    Hash Animation Master is the 3D software that you need to create amazing animations and imagery from the comfort of your own kitchen table. It is one of the most powerful, easy-to-use, and affordable 3D programs. A:M is both advanced and easy to learn. The tutorials and text will help you to become an A.M professional as well as jump-start your career as an animator in the 3D industry. A:M experts around the globe are always available for beginners to assist with tutorials and answers via the A:M Forums. Our community is among the most responsive, knowledgeable, and helpful anywhere. We are here to help, even if our users don't know how!
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    Toon Boom Harmony Reviews

    Toon Boom Harmony

    Toon Boom

    $24 per month
    Harmony 20, the industry's most popular 2D animation software, offers the latest in digital drawing sensibility to its brushes. Every marking, every style, and every texture that you want to leave for the audience are felt. Your animation is enhanced by innovative deformers, rules, guides, colour control & features, as well as colour control & feature guidelines. Artists express themselves through their art, creating unique markings on a surface that are as individual as their creators. The right tool can capture the essence of an image as well as the creative spirit behind it. One powerful, end-to-end animation program can create art and emotion in any style. Harmony 20 is setting the standard for award-winning animation. You can give your series and features more life with the latest lighting, shading, and special effects.
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    Cartoon Animator Reviews

    Cartoon Animator

    Reallusion

    $29.95 one-time payment
    Cartoon Animator 4 (formerly CrazyTalk Animator), is a 2D animation program that allows for both entry and productivity. You can create animated characters from images, control their expressions, create lip-sync animations from audio, access content resources, and use a comprehensive photoshop pipeline for quick customization and creation of content. Facial animation can be difficult, especially if you want to rotate the face. Reallusion is a 2D animation tool that breaks down the limitations of 2D art. It offers a simple and effective way for 2D animators to create realistic images. Cartoon Animator makes character animation easy and quick. After Effects gives you a professional look. You can export CTA projects and create AE layers using the AE script.
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    Corel MotionStudio 3D Reviews
    Create a movie that is truly epic with 3D titles, amazing effects, and 3D animation. Corel MotionStudio 3D comes with a variety of tools to create 3D graphics, animated texts, particle effects, motion blur, and other useful effects. It has everything you need to create big-budget effects without spending a lot of money. You can tell your story your way with creative titles and text. Dynamic 3D titles can add excitement and impact to your movie using hundreds of presets. Anyone can now create 3D graphics, animations, and visual effects in real-time! In the Preview Panel, you can build and play back your 3D creations. You can add drama to your titles with realistic particle systems. These systems allow you to simulate natural elements such as fire, smoke, bubbles, snow, and other natural elements. It is easy to incorporate your 3D titles, visual effects, and 3D graphics into other video or web productions. You can export your projects in a variety formats compatible with VideoStudio®, Pro X4 or other top video-editing programs.
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    Cinema 4D Reviews

    Cinema 4D

    Maxon

    $16.58 per month
    3D computer animation, modeling and simulation. Cinema 4D Subscription Release 24(S24) allows users to browse and retrieve models, materials, and other assets and place them in a scene. This release also contains key workflow enhancements as well as a sneak peak at the ongoing progress on the Scene Nodes interfaces to the new core. Cinema 4D is a professional 3D animation, simulation, and rendering software. Its powerful, flexible, flexible, and stable toolset makes 3D workflows easier and more efficient for designers, motion graphics, AR/MR/VR and game developers, as well as all other visualization professionals. Cinema 4D delivers stunning results whether you are working alone or in a group. Cinema 4D is widely regarded as one of the most intuitive and accessible 3D programs to learn and use. Maxon offers hundreds of Quick Tips and thousands of tutorials on Cineversity to help ease the learning curve.
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    LightWave 3D Reviews
    NewTek LightWave 3D®, is for independent artists who want to have complete control over their vision from beginning to end. LightWave 3D® is a well-known 3D system that is affordable, complete, simple to use, and easy to learn. LightWave lets you create new worlds, build your brand, and exceed expectations. LightWave 2020 has been refined and retooled. LightWave 2020 is now unrestricted. Don't believe us? Register now to get a full-featured trial version of LightWave 2020 on Windows & Mac. LightWave 2020 provides you with the tools to complete any project on schedule and within budget. LightWave 2020 can be added to your project pipeline. Start creating with a stable, efficient, and effective workflow. Fresh. Quick. Simple. Proven.
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    RADiCAL Reviews

    RADiCAL

    RADiCAL

    $8 per month
    RADiCAL was established to create the most powerful computer vision technology in the world. Its goal is to detect and reconstruct 3D human movement from 2D content. AI-powered 3D motion capture -- in cloud and on all devices. We use multiple scientific bodies in a proprietary configuration. This includes computer vision, deep learning, and anthropometry. Our system is constantly learning and improving. We know that we can never be done. Our goal is to see this technology seamlessly integrated across mobile, web, and enterprise environments, enabling 3D animation in film and TV, art, gaming and AR/VR as well as industrial, health and industrial applications.
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    AnimeEffects Reviews

    AnimeEffects

    AnimeEffects

    Free
    AnimeEffects, a 2D keyframe animation tool, is based on the deformation of polygonmeshes. It is easy to use, quickly shape your idea and then remake it at any time if your mind changes. For animation resources, you can import image files like JPEG, PNG and GIF. AnimeEffects supports PSD layer clipping and many blending options. PSD is Adobe Photoshop's multiple layer format. It is supported by many paint tools like Easy Paint Tool SAI and Clip Studio Paint. AnimeEffects supports canvas rotation and graphics tablet operation. It also allows intuitive deformation.
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    Spine Reviews

    Spine

    Esoteric Software

    $69 one-time payment
    Animation makes video games come alive. We believe that creating 2D animations of high quality requires more than just powerful software. Spine is dedicated 2D skeletal animation. It provides a simple workflow that allows you to create amazing animation and integrate it into your games. Spine is available in your browser window. View live demos to see what Spine can do. You can create layers of animations, manipulate skeletons dynamically and more. Spine Academy provides everything you need to learn Spine. We have everything you need to learn Spine, whether you prefer online learning or face-to-face courses and workshops. To see the latest Spine versions and the work being done, check our roadmap and changelog. Don't forget to join our community forum. Animating is an iterative process. Spine offers many tools to help you shape and refine 2D animations.
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    Pencil2D Reviews

    Pencil2D

    Pencil2D

    Free
    It is lightweight and easy to use, so you can concentrate on animating and not worrying about which button to press next. You can easily switch between vector and raster workflows. This allows you to draw, ink, and paint anywhere you are. Pencil2D is open-source and free to use commercially. We are happy to share Pencil2D's latest release with you. Our top priority was to fix the most urgent and pressing issues that not just broke the animation experience, but also to patch existing features. To stabilize and improve the software, more than 330+ commits have been made since the last release.
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    Animation Paper Reviews

    Animation Paper

    Animation Paper

    $79 one-time payment
    Animation Paper for Windows, Mac, or Linux is a great tool for animators, students and filmmakers. You can quickly test your ideas or learn new skills. Then, clean up. This app is easy to use, super efficient, powerful, and fun! This is a crucial part of your animation production process. Excellent interface, prompt, real-time workflow, and responsive interface. It gets you into the zone quickly. It is non-intrusive and well-constructed. This is how 'traditional animation should be done today. It's simple, intuitive, and exactly what the professional needs. Super responsiveness while drawing, flipping, and everything. High-quality lines that do not degrade when transformed or the resolution is changed. Frames in small to large formats. Smooth rotation and zooming in real-time. Light table (onion skinning advanced and customizable). Easy, yet powerful timing (also scribbled note display and sound wave display).
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    Pinreel Reviews

    Pinreel

    Pinreel

    $4 per month
    Pro animated video content can be created at the speed of light. Youtube shorts, TikTok stories, promo videos intros and reels maker. Over 1,000 professionally designed video templates, animated texts, and effects can be used to create social media content. The intuitive drag-and drop video editor makes it easy to create engaging social media content. In just a few clicks, you can combine animated text, images and stickers with stickers and effects. The reels maker app includes a variety of templates to help you get started. Influencers will find the perfect animated video content using music templates for TikTok and Youtube Shorts, Instagram Stories, and Instagram Reel. Our animated text, stickers music, graphics, and effects will help you unleash your creativity. Combine your images and videos to create stunning social media content that will amaze your followers.
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    Express Animate Reviews

    Express Animate

    NCH

    $24.99 one-time payment
    Express Animate allows you to create stunning animations by using objects, images and illustrations. You can add your own creative flair to your project by choosing from a variety of animation and effects tools. Apply transformations and effects on image objects to be creative. Convert a color image to black and white, sepia or sepia-toned. Adjust the color temperature or saturation to enhance an object. Use keyframes to zoom, rotate and more. Bring life to your animated cartoons and characters. Animate individual body parts or combine multiple objects to optimize the animation. Use the timeline to create animations and move your character. Use keyframes and multiple layers to add audio, special effects, and more. Express Animate offers advanced tools for graphic designers and animators. These include onion skins, vector masks, blending mode, and a graph editing tool for precise animation.
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