Animation tools, time-tracking tools, and utilities for practical creative and everyday workflows.
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A production-focused Maya toolkit that removes repetitive setup from blocking, polish, and shot handoff — so animators can spend their time animating.
A companion media player for animation reviews, designed to work alongside Animation Tool Kit and support integrated animation workflows.
A digital exposure sheet for traditional and hybrid animators — plan timing, layers, sound sync, and frame-by-frame breakdowns the way animators have always worked.
Turns photos or scans of pencil drawings into clean lines on a transparent background, ready to load into OpenToonz or any animation or compositing program.
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A web-based time clock for logging work sessions, tracking hours, and keeping a simple record of where your time goes.
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A Windows PowerShell GUI utility for quickly building, previewing, saving, and generating nested folder structures from reusable templates.
A lightweight Windows keystroke visualizer for showing keyboard shortcuts, modifier keys, and typed input during demos, recordings, and live teaching.
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An interactive workshop converter between fractions, decimal inches, and millimetres — built around a live rule graduated to 1/64″ that you can type into, step, or drag.
Community Picks
Free tools I rely on and recommend. These aren't my projects — they're built and maintained by the open-source community, and they deserve your support.
The leading multimedia framework — able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything. A great free way to encode and convert your animation renders and videos, from obscure legacy formats to the cutting edge.
Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, the BSDs and more.
A free, open-source 3D creation suite for modelling, sculpting, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and video editing. A powerful tool for bringing creative ideas to life, backed by a community worth supporting.
Runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.
A free, open-source 2D animation program with raster and vector drawing, digital painting, an xsheet and timeline, and node-based compositing. A great tool for bringing hand-drawn animation to life, free to use for personal and commercial projects and worth supporting.
Available for Windows and macOS.