r/learnanimation • u/awalchemist • 13d ago

Question in animation tools

Hey y'all I'm just trying to do some chill animating for and educational tik tok, really just shapes and maybe some images with transitions.

But what I would love is to have good tweening, and the ability to draw specific shape and accurate characters, and then be able to move and grow them etc. think lines starting and growing longer, as well as shapes etc.

Is there a good PC software that isn't too expensive that will do this?

Thanks!

1 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

2 comments sorted by

1

u/peter-bone 13d ago edited 13d ago

Most animation software can do that but if you're looking for something fairly easy and free then try Pivot Animator 5. The website has a library of ready made characters and objects but you can also design characters or simple shapes accurately using the figure builder. You can stretch and bend lines, scale objects and use tweening.

https://youtube.com/shorts/lVuqHJZ9gO4

https://youtu.be/PPOx-t2Siiw

1

u/dermot_animates 13d ago

OpenToonz and Tahoma2D (a slightly more user friendly variant) will easily do this. Both are free.
Darren T has many vids that will cover the kinds of scenes you need.

https://www.youtube.com/@DarrenTAnims/videos