Topic: Good or best alternative to Adobe Animate CC

[Arcangel]

IN good or best..... Important FREE...
OS: Windows.

Any pls comment. THX

[Babar]

Here

[Arcangel]

Babar  here

Thx see a lot of alternatives to Animate CC, but any here use any of them, need some feedback from user here, any use from the list, If not I need do a trial and error for best five.

Thx for that list ty.

[Ali]

Of the free ones on that list:

Opentoonz is for traditional 2D cel animation. Apparently it can do split-pin animation, but I've never tried it or seen it. It's very idiosyncratic and can be unstable, but it's got some great features. I'm using it for this WIP: https://twitter.com/MisterABK/status/1057956817404379136

I used Synfig briefly a few years ago, and it messed up my save (or did some other unforgivable thing) and so I uninstalled it.

I have my eye on Dragonbones, but I'm not sure whether it's oriented towards games or standalone animation: http://dragonbones.com/en/index.html

[Blondbraid]

Of the free ones on that list:

Opentoonz is for traditional 2D cel animation. Apparently it can do split-pin animation, but I've never tried it or seen it. It's very idiosyncratic and can be unstable, but it's got some great features. I'm using it for this WIP: https://twitter.com/MisterABK/status/1057956817404379136

That is an awesome animation! I've wanted to try Opentoonz myself, but I never managed to learn it due to the overwhelming interface,
and I haven't managed to find any good tutorials for beginners.

I've been using Macromedia Flash MX 2004 so far, because it's about the only free animation software that I felt was intuitively designed that I could learn the basics without having to sit through a dozen video tutorials.
I don't know if it's just me, but I've always found video tutorials the most frustrating method of learning anything computer based, I've always preferred text I can read at my own pace and skip right to the important bits to always having to pause and rewind videos.

[Layabout]

You may wish to check out the Blender 2.8 beta. The new 2D tools look super cool. I haven't tried them yet, but for hand drawn, it looks better than Animate (which still has some awful quirks)