I'm wanting to get into 2D animation. What are the best tools on linux?

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  • io_import_lipSync-blender2.8

    io_import_lipSync_Importer.py for Blender 2.8

  • Bforartists

    Bforartists is a fork of the popular 3D software Blender, with the goal to improve the UI.

    • https://www.bforartists.de/ -- this is more user friendly UI, but is not as up to date version

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  • BabylonJS

    Babylon.js is a powerful, beautiful, simple, and open game and rendering engine packed into a friendly JavaScript framework.

    • Other than that you could go more game engine that can export to web, these are very web centric engines, that have 2d and some 3d capabilities. These work with vectors among other things, but are a lot more complicated since they are a game engine. BabylonJS: https://www.babylonjs.com/ Phaser: https://phaser.io/ ThreeJS: https://threejs.org/

  • three.js

    JavaScript 3D Library.

    • Other than that you could go more game engine that can export to web, these are very web centric engines, that have 2d and some 3d capabilities. These work with vectors among other things, but are a lot more complicated since they are a game engine. BabylonJS: https://www.babylonjs.com/ Phaser: https://phaser.io/ ThreeJS: https://threejs.org/

  • Phaser

    Discontinued Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering. [Moved to: https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser] (by photonstorm)

    • Other than that you could go more game engine that can export to web, these are very web centric engines, that have 2d and some 3d capabilities. These work with vectors among other things, but are a lot more complicated since they are a game engine. BabylonJS: https://www.babylonjs.com/ Phaser: https://phaser.io/ ThreeJS: https://threejs.org/

  • Godot

    Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

    • Other than that there is also Godot which has a web export, and does have 2D elements, but does not really have vector graphics capabilities yet, but can do various raster and other game mechanics: Godot: https://godotengine.org/

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