Thought this was neat, and I didn't see anything about it on stickpage after searching for a bit.

While it's not available yet, apparently the animation software that Studio Ghibli uses is going open-source within a week, on March 26th.

EDIT: Here's a better article I found

This is kind of a big deal, as it means their software will basically be free, and directly helps the fellows who, for whatever reason, would be unable to buy it. (hint hint, this entire community.)

It's ALSO a big deal because other software such as TvPaint, Toonboom, Anime studio etc etc now have a pretty serious competitor. (Assuming of course, it actually is the full-fledged software or at least is relatively close to that level.)

For those who want to know a bit about how it works:



And the github page. (The english version) The software can be downloaded here.

So, how does this make you all feel? Thoughts?

EDIT: I'm blind. The software has been used in a couple of english animations, so there's no reason for it to not be translated already.

What are the other open source animation softwares on this level?

Windows movie maker

Quote from Not_Nish

What are the other open source animation softwares on this level?

The closest that comes to mind is Toon Boom, but I'm not sure if that's completely Open Source. Maybe Cinema 4D and TVPaint, but I've never used those and I only really know them by name.

But i'm totally gonna try out this stuff. Never hurts to know how it works.

So as of yesterday the software is out. It can be picked up on their github page.

Currently it seems to have issues with plentiful crashes, and while the manual was not in english, it seems the community is working to rectify that.

That's sort of the thing with open source. They can just release whatever version and just leave it to the community to fix it for them.

I downloaded this yesterday, and after using it for a while, the lack of keyboard shortcuts is bugging me. Is there any easy way to set those up?

Well this is interesting... That kind of history behind the software is sure to get it heap loads of attention (Which is a great scenario for open-source software). If the only issue is frequent crashing, I might try it out. Flash is pretty bad in that aspect anyways :P

Quote from Turquoise#2

I downloaded this yesterday, and after using it for a while, the lack of keyboard shortcuts is bugging me. Is there any easy way to set those up?

https://github.com/opentoonz/opentoonz/issues/56

If you scroll down a bit someone started making default shortcuts that you can download.

I've downloaded this. It has very amazing features .-. Can't believe it, srsly. But the plugins are really confusing, since the manual is in Japanese language.

So I did some research on Opentoonz, to me it looks buggy and illogical as shit. I think i'd rather start trying Animate CC rather then Opentoonz.. Maybe later when some stuff get fixed.