AnimeEffects vs synfig

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AnimeEffects		synfig
	Project
2	Mentions	4
103	Stars	1,697
-	Growth	2.3%
8.4	Activity	9.2
3 months ago	Latest Commit	about 16 hours ago
C++	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

AnimeEffects

Posts with mentions or reviews of AnimeEffects. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Anime Effects – an open-source 2D animation app
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2023
AnimeEffects 1.4.0
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2023

synfig

Posts with mentions or reviews of synfig. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-20.

Draw tool not working properly
1 project | /r/synfig | 19 Mar 2023

You can also open an issue here https://github.com/synfig/synfig/issues
Help me guys to fix it- i create a meteor image in inkscape and then i save file as "sif" so i can open it in synfig but this message is coming and the final image is colour less
1 project | /r/synfig | 19 Mar 2023

You can install several versions of Synfig at the same time on Windows using Portable versions (distributed as .zip archives) https://github.com/synfig/synfig/releases
Gramps not starting perfectly centered ?
1 project | /r/gramps | 10 May 2022

Synfig :Window position not remembered and default is in an odd place which mentions the following "This is due to a bug of implementation of shadows in GTK3 for Windows See 2. of Suboptimal window drawing on Windows" they do seem to solve the issue , but not sure if what will work with Gramps ( Linux only user here, sorry ).
Lottie – use After Effects animations in web and native apps
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing AnimeEffects and synfig you can also consider the following projects:

Skity - A light weight 2D Vector Graphic renderer library writing in c++ for OpenGL3.3+ / OpenGLES3.0+ / Vulkan 1.1+/ WebGL2 with WASM

Creature_Godot - 2D Skeletal Animation Creature Runtime for Godot Engine

Snoow - Snoow is a C++ Game Engine with a Level Editor

animator - Design tool for creating Lottie animations and interactive web components

urho3d - Game engine

jlottie - A small-footprint lottie player in Javascript

cpp-graphics - C++ 2D Graphics Tests and Examples using SDL2, SFML, GLFW and Dear ImGui

ObEngine - 2D Game Engine with Lua Scripting made on top of SFML !

canvas_ity - A tiny, single-header <canvas>-like 2D rasterizer for C++

Skia - Skia is a complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images.

Matrix - Easy-to-use Scientific Computing library in/for C++ available for Linux and Windows.

vec-mat-comp-quat - C++ 2d/3d/4d Vector, 2x2/3x3/4x4 Matrix, Complex Number, Quaternion, and 3d Transformation Classes / Functions (Header Only libraries)