Friction is a powerful and versatile motion graphics application that allows you to create stunning vector and raster animations for web and video platforms. Friction provides a scalable, high-performance GPU/CPU vector and raster pipeline developed in C++, using Skia and the Qt framework.
This is a fork of enve.
Friction is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Create smooth and responsive animations for the web with Friction! Using Friction, you can create animated scalable vector graphics (SVG) using the synchronized multimedia integration language (SMIL).
- Work on multiple scenes at once, with multiple viewers, timelines, and graphs. Adjust it to fit your needs and screen real estate.
- Powerful expression editor – support for expressions with ECMAScript in parameters and effects. Additionally, it includes a complete code editor with autocompletion, syntax highlighting, custom functions, and more.
- Diverse range of effects for enhancing your vector graphics and text.
- Experimental support for user-customizable shader effects. A limited set of effects are included.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux and Windows.
Website: friction.graphics
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Ole-André Rodlie, Maurycy Liebner, sanjuchopracool, Alex Kiryanov, Poren Chiang, goyalyashpal, eszlari, Alexandre Prokoudine, nabbisen, luzpaz
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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| Animation Tools | |
|---|---|
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| LibreSprite | Create 2D animations for videogames |
| Pencil2D | Easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations |
| Tahoma2D | Full-featured 2D and Stop Motion animation creation based on Toonz Studio |
| Drawpile | Draw, paint and animate together with others on the same canvas |
| Glaxnimate | Simple and fast vector graphics animation program |
| OpenToonz | Based on Toonz Studio Ghibli Version |
| Friction | Motion graphics software for vector and raster animations |
| Inochi Creator | Tool to create and edit Inochi2D puppets |
| EagleAnimation | Stop-motion animation application |
| K-3D | 3D modeling and animation software |
| enve | Create vector animations, raster animations, with sound and video files |
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