OpenToonz is an open source app for creating 2D animations. It used to be a commercial application that was widely used in the animation industry, but went open source almost 3 years ago.
Herbert123 wrote on Blender Artists:
A huge list of bug fixes and improvements across the board. The GUI has been improved further, and even a touch screen gesture mode was added. MyPaint bitmap brushes now work on Toonz Raster levels (“layers”) which allows for colour changes based on a fixed palette. A new live Text generator effect finally allows for live text to be added to your animations (before it was destructive).
The difference is night and day compared to the first buggy and ugly release on March 2016! It now runs stable, and many new features have been added over the scope of (almost) three years. The GUI has been much improved since then.
OpenToonz was used in the production of Mary and the Witch’s Flower, a feature-length Japanese animation film.
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No Linux version! Useless software! Needs coomercial OS which cost 100 EUR to run.
It does have a Linux version.
Check the following link to learn from where to download it:
https://opentoonz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing_opentoonz.html
Useless for the grumpy "I want everything for free" generation?! You are completely misinformed. The OS doesn't cost 100 Euro. Installing is for free first and a legal key cost around 20-25 Euro (Pro or Home). Beside that millions of people work with this OS. So explain us again why it's useless? Maybe useless for you. What about the computer running Open Source? You want it for free, too?
I just installed 1.3 from the software manager in Mint, so yes, there is a Linux version, you grumpy old man! :)
I believe this was also used on the movie Spirited Away as well as subsequent Studio Ghibli productions. In case anyone cares :)
That question is not relevant to this article; I recommend you open a topic on Blender Artists to get help with this.
Bart you replied to the wrong comment ;)
(100% agree with you)
https://opentoonz.github.io/e/usecase.html#usecase
Here is a compilation of recent use cases of OpenToonz in commercial productions.