Synfig Studio

If you wish to create high-quality animations, Synfig Studio can help you. The software provides you with industry-standard vector and bitmap drawing tools, as well as other powerful features. Though it won't do your work for you, the application will definitely reduce your working time and expenses. What's more, Synfig Studio is cross platform and it is offered as a free and open source application.

Synfig Studio comes with a modular user interface, with well organized and easy to understand controls. It consists of a main editing area, where you can make your animations, a navigator for the editing space, a tool pane, layer selection pane, an information pane and more, located on separate windows, which you can spread and arrange on your screen however you want.

You can draw freely, insert shapes or import other graphical elements from your local folder. Unlike other animation software, Synfig Studio doesn't force you to animate your objects frame by frame. You can enable an animation mode and select different frames in the lower region of the editing area.

Spatial and temporal resolution independence are other features you can expect from Synfig Studio. Because most items are vector-based, they won't be pixelated even if you change the resolution for the entire project. Furthermore, the software interpolates animation keyframes automatically, which can result in smoother animations.