Pencil2D is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

• Pencil2D 0.5.4 beta for Windows
• Pencil2D 0.5.4 beta for Mac OS X
• Pencil2D 0.5.4 beta for Linux

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• Report Bugs, Request Features
• Pencil2D Open Source Community: http://www.pencil2d.org/
• User Forum

• Github: https://github.com/pencil2d/pencil
• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/chchwy/pencil2d

2013-07-26

• ScribbleArea code refactoring.
• Custom keyboard shortcuts (Preferences->Shoftcuts)
• Interactive brush resizing. SHIFT + Mouse Drag to change brush size, CTRL + Mouse Drag for FEATHER, CTRL+SHIFT applies brush size to the eraser and temporarily selects it.
• Smoother brush stroke on Mac OS X.
• Saving/loading project is more stable now.
• Misc bug fixes.

2013-06-28

• Upgrade to Qt 4.8.4
• ToolSet code refactoring.
• Menubar code refactoring.
• Color Palette code refactoring.
• Bug fixed: brush cannot change color in 0.5.2

Changes by Konstantin Dmitriev:

• Support for some command-line options. Now it's possible to specify file to open: $ Pencil file.pcl Export to image sequence using command-line: $ Pencil file.pcl --export-sequence file.png
• Load dialog: Allow to choose "Any file" filter - that allows to load files without extension (old Pencil files).
• Fix transparency issue when exporting to png sequence
• Desktop integration (linux)
• Other minor fixes

Changes by davidefa:

• Export movie exports audio and video. Audio layers are mixed. To select video format use an 'appropriate' filename extension ( ex: .avi, .mov, .mpg, .mp4 ... ), movie framerate is selectable ( but output codecs don't support all framerates, a safe and usual choice should be 24, 25 or 30 fps )
• Minor fixes in audio layers ( corrupted audio passed end of 'audio frame' ).
• Improved undo/redo functionality
• Fixed saving animation ( removed 'optimization', now saving is slower but safer )
• Added fps parameter in saved animations
• 3 'layers' of onion skinning ( configurable trough edit->preferences->tools, to remove a layer set its opacity to 0 )
• Added import movie ( frames are imported at the current fps, there is no check to limit the imported frames )
• Compiles fine with min 0.4.x on linux
• Other minor fixes ( moving selection on bitmap layers, moving layers... )