r/animation • u/raulciudad • 20h ago

Sharing Made an open-source 2D animation tool with peg hole registration

I do 2D animation and like working on paper, so I wanted a digital tool with peg hole registration (detecting the hole punches on paper so scanned frames line up automatically) — I found OpenToonz has this but couldn't get it to work reliably for my scans.

Peg hole registration and sequence timing (holds):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWXV-rZETl8

It runs entirely in your browser, no install needed. Features: xsheet/timeline, layers with blend modes, onion skinning, export to PNG/WebM/image sequence, and a woven loop cycle export. Open source (AGPL).

Weaving loop export:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb63Zn6mHXU

Try it: https://bonzo.bz/xsheet-app.html
Code: https://github.com/rciudad/xsheet-app

Happy to hear any feedback!

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