Purple Elephant is a free and open source cross-platform 2D traditional animation editor, tester, player and compositor.

Part of Purple Animation Tools by O. Bahri Gordebak

See Wiki for details.

Note that Sourceforge project page doesn't always show the latest download. Please click Files above and browse files before download.

Latest version is 1.4 right now.

Features

  • Add layers above or below current one
  • Playback up to 30 fps
  • Add a sound track (wav)
  • Render a png sequence
  • Open Purple Owl files
  • Add, delete, insert, replace, duplicate frames (png, jpg)
  • Add or insert empty frames
  • Export current frame
  • Browse through frames easily
  • Loop playback
  • Save/open documents
  • Open last document
  • Work without a mouse if you want
  • Render a video if ffmpeg is avaiilable (Win32 binaries include ffmpeg)
  • Draw, paint or erase with your tablet or mouse
  • Undo Drawing/Erasing (Limited)
  • Go to frame
  • Rename layers
  • Change brush color and size
  • Onionskin for 2 Frames Back and 2 Frames Forward
  • Hide/Show Layers
  • Lock/Unlock Layers
  • Currently pressure sensitivity doesn't work because of QTBUG-33788

Project Samples

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Categories

Animation

License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

WINE, MinGW/MSYS2, Linux, BSD, Windows

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Qt

Programming Language

C++

Related Categories

C++ Animation Software

Registered

2015-01-07