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Pencil2D is an animation/drawing application for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux that enables traditional hand-drawn animation creation using both bitmap and vector graphics. It is designed to operate functionally across multiple operating systems at no cost.

Version: 0.7.1

Size: 68.9 MB

Systems: Windows, Linux, MacOS

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