Vendors
CrazyTalk Animator
CrazyTalk Animator provides an exciting new approach to traditional 2D animation with innovative new tools that allow users to apply 3D motions to 2D characters. New powerful tools have opened new possibilities for freely editing 2D motions and viewing them from any angle with a single click. Combined with functional features like facial puppet and auto lip-sync, it has become the most creative tool for 2D character animation.
Aseprite
Aseprite is an open source program to create animated sprites & pixel-art. Sprites are little images that can be used in your website or a video game. You can draw characters with movement, intros, textures, patterns, backgrounds, logos, color palettes, isometric levels, etc.
SynFig Studio
Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork. It eliminates the need to create animation frame-by frame, allowing you to produce 2D animation of a higher quality with fewer people and resources. Synfig Studio is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS X.
TV Paint
The TVPaint software is born in 1991, at the beginning of digital painting and 2D bitmap animations made with graphic tablets. Nowadays, TVPaint Développement is one of the last companies onthe market to be always active in this domain. This section is especially addressed to producers, film and studio directors, in order to give a better idea of what TVPaint can bring to you concretely
TexturePacker
Texture Packer is hands down the best sprite sheet generation tool on the market. It has more features than any of the competition and is ready for production-level games