3. Pencil
2D animation software
Pencil has a well packed, clear user-friendly interface and it is a 2D animating software with a great number of features and tools. It offers using both vector and bitmap graphics in creating animations. Pencil’s website is also nicely and clearly organized, and tends to bring its users to communicate and share experiences and solving problems and ideas with each other. It can be supported by Windows, Mac, Linux and OS X operating systems.