OpenToonz

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About OpenToonz

OpenToonz is a 2D animation software published by DWANGO, built on Toonz Studio Ghibli Version, originally developed by Digital Video, Inc. in Italy and later customized by Studio Ghibli for use in its own productions. The software provides a full animation production pipeline, including drawing, inking, painting, compositing, and scanning tools suited to both traditional hand-drawn and digital animation workflows. It is cross-platform, with builds available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and BSD, and supports custom stylesheets and plugin-style extensions. Development is community-driven on GitHub, with continuous integration across all supported platforms, active translation support through Weblate, and a public issue tracker and user forum for troubleshooting and collaboration. Most of the codebase is released under a Modified BSD License, with separate licensing terms for third-party components and bundled MyPaint brushes.

Key Features

• Full 2D animation production pipeline
• Drawing, inking, painting, and compositing tools
• Support for traditional and digital animation workflows
• Cross-platform builds for Windows, macOS, Linux, and BSD
• Customizable stylesheets
• Nightly and unstable builds available for testing
• Active GitHub development with CI across all platforms
• Community translation support via Weblate
• Public issue tracker and user forum
• Pull request testing program for non-developers
• Based on Toonz, used historically in Studio Ghibli productions
• Modified BSD License for most of the codebase
• Separate documentation repository
• Available in multiple languages (English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese)

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