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Pencil 2D create 2D animations
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Pencil 2D create 2D animations

Master Pencil 2D software to create 2D animations with drawings
Created byNicolas Forgue
Last updated 10/2026
English
English [Auto],

What you'll learn

  • Master dashboard
  • Master navigation
  • Create document
  • Export animation
  • Create shapes
  • Create selections
  • Master colors
  • Import images
  • Add guides
  • Start with animations
  • Play animation
  • Add keyframes
  • Animate drawings
  • Animate images
  • Animate caterpillar
  • Animate monster

Course content

18 sections • 41 lectures • 4h 57m total length
  • Introduction2:57

    Introduction

Requirements

  • You need to download Pencil 2D

Description

Pencil 2D software

Pencil 2D is a 2D animation software. It is free and available for use. Pencil 2D offers a wide range of features to create animations with drawings. It is an ergonomic software that allows you to produce animations with a variety of parameters with drawings. For this, you can draw with different tools and erase drawings. You can work with layers, you can create an animation on a layer and create an other animation on an other layer. You can draw landscapes and characters, and create selections to move the drawings. You can work with keyframes in the timeline,  you can duplicate keyframes, copy selections, or even make modifications on drawings.


Software advantages

- Ergonomic interface

- Drawing tools

- Selection tools

- Creation of animations with drawings

- Work with keyframes

- Work with layers

- Ergonomic timeline to manage keyframes

- Create simple and complex animations


Training Course

In this training course, you will learn how to use the Pencil 2D software to create 2D animations with drawings. With a course structure, you will learn the skills to produce animations with drawings. You will learn how to use the different tools to create your drawings, and you will learn how to work with layers. Also you will discover how to build animations using the timeline and how to manage keyframes. The principles of animations with keyframes will be explained in a logical process. At the end of the course, several practical exercises will allow you to apply the features you have seen in the course.

Who this course is for:

  • People who want to create 2D animations with drawings
  • People who want free software to create 2D animations with drawings