Pencil2D is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.
Nightly builds are the bleedig edge (most up to date) versions of Pencil2D, which contains the most recent fixes and features.
| Windows 32 bit | Windows 64 bit | Mac | Linux |
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| Download | Download | Download | Download |
Old, unstable and no longer supported! Download it at your own risk. These versions WILL NOT work for Windows 8+ or MAC OSX releases below 10.9 (Mavericks)
| Windows 32 bit | Mac | Linux |
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| Download | Download | Download |
Command line:
sudo apt-get install pencil2d
- Pencil2D HomePage: http://pencil2d.github.io/
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- Github: https://github.com/pencil2d/pencil
- Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/chchwy/pencil2d
2013-07-26
- ScribbleArea code refactoring.
- Custom keyboard shortcuts (Preferences->Shoftcuts)
- Interactive brush resizing. SHIFT + Mouse Drag to change brush size, CTRL + Mouse Drag for FEATHER, CTRL+SHIFT applies brush size to the eraser and temporarily selects it.
- Smoother brush stroke on Mac OS X.
- Saving/loading project is more stable now.
- Misc bug fixes.
2013-06-28
- Upgrade to Qt 4.8.4
- ToolSet code refactoring.
- Menubar code refactoring.
- Color Palette code refactoring.
- Bug fixed: brush cannot change color in 0.5.2
Changes by Konstantin Dmitriev:
- Support for some command-line options. Now it's possible to specify file to open: $ Pencil file.pcl Export to image sequence using command-line: $ Pencil file.pcl --export-sequence file.png
- Load dialog: Allow to choose "Any file" filter - that allows to load files without extension (old Pencil files).
- Fix transparency issue when exporting to png sequence
- Desktop integration (linux)
- Other minor fixes
Changes by davidefa:
- Export movie exports audio and video. Audio layers are mixed. To select video format use an 'appropriate' filename extension ( ex: .avi, .mov, .mpg, .mp4 ... ), movie framerate is selectable ( but output codecs don't support all framerates, a safe and usual choice should be 24, 25 or 30 fps )
- Minor fixes in audio layers ( corrupted audio passed end of 'audio frame' ).
- Improved undo/redo functionality
- Fixed saving animation ( removed 'optimization', now saving is slower but safer )
- Added fps parameter in saved animations
- 3 'layers' of onion skinning ( configurable trough edit->preferences->tools, to remove a layer set its opacity to 0 )
- Added import movie ( frames are imported at the current fps, there is no check to limit the imported frames )
- Compiles fine with min 0.4.x on linux
- Other minor fixes ( moving selection on bitmap layers, moving layers... )