The Pencil2D team announced a new release of its 2D animation software with new feature and various bug-fixes.
Pencil2D is a free and open-source software to make 2D hand-drawn animations. It’s lightweight, easy to use, and works on Linux, Windows, Mac OS, and FreeBSD. It supports both bitmap and vector graphics, and allows to seamlessly switch between the two workflows.
By releasing version 0.6.6, Pencil2D gets crash recovery support. On app startup, it now opens the last edited project automatically. And the timeline now using the system palette colors.
Other changes in the release include:
- Improved user interface overlapping issue at low screen resolutions by adding scrollbars
- “Reset Windows” now resets all sub panels to their initial positions
- Fixed that Check for updates not working on Windows.
- Fixed a couple of issues regarding frame cache invalidation
- Fixed misc tablet/mouse stroke issues
- Fixed memory leaks
- Fixed new layer naming
- Fixed broken polyline tool
Download / Install Pencil2D:
The project offers official Linux binary through Appimage packge, which is available to download at the link below:
Download Pencil2D (.appimage)
Grab the package, and give executable permission in file Properties -> Permissions tab. Finally double click to run it to launch the software.
For choice, you can install Pencil2D via universal Flatpak package. See this tutorial for details.