Best Animation Software in the USA

Create cinematic movie titles, intros, and transitions. Remove an object from a clip. Start a fire or make it rain. Animate a logo or character. With After Effects, the industry-standard motion graphics and visual effects software, you can take any idea and make it move. Animate titles, credits, and lower thirds. Start from scratch or with presets available right from the app. From spin to swipe to slide — your text is on the move. Combine videos and images to create anything you can imagine. Choose exciting effects from hundreds of options, remove unwanted objects or people, and create VR videos to drop your audience right into the action. Set anything in motion with keyframes or expressions. Or use presets to kick-off your designs for unique results. Create compositions in Premiere Pro. Use Dynamic Link to eliminate intermediate rendering between applications. Import from Photoshop, Illustrator, Character Animator, Adobe XD, and Animate.

Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline. Cycles is Blender’s built-in powerful unbiased path-tracer engine that offers stunning ultra-realistic rendering. Blender’s comprehensive array of modeling tools make creating, transforming and editing your models a breeze. VFX professionals say: “Probably the best tracker in the market”. Blender includes production ready camera and object tracking. Allowing you to import raw footage, track the footage, mask areas and see the camera movements live in your 3D scene. Eliminating the need to switch between programs. Thanks to the high quality rigging and animation tools, Blender is being used for numerous short films, advertisements, TV series and feature films now.

Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation software, designed as a powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork. It eliminates the need to create frame-by-frame animation, allowing you to produce 2D animation of a higher quality with fewer people and resources. Transform any vector shape into another! Synfig gives you powerful tools for full control of your vector artwork. Just set the key positions and the intermediate frames will be calculated automatically. Synfig provides more than 50 layers to create illustrations and animations of any complexity. Choose from several types of layers: geometry, gradients, filters, distortions, transformations, fractals and others. The full-featured bone system allows you to create cutout animations using bitmap images or control your vector artwork.

Character Animator uses your expressions and movements to animate characters in real time. It’s so fast, you can livestream while you work to wow audiences every step of the way. Put your best face forward. Your performance can bring a character to life. Using your webcam and microphone, Character Animator matches your expressions — from syncing lips to tracking eyes — to animate in real time. Create a character in seconds. Turn any art into an animated character with your webcam, powered by Adobe Sensei AI. Import art from Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, or start with built-in character templates. Animations with legs — and arms and heads. Control gestures like waving with your keyboard or MIDI device. Movements can be saved as triggers, so they’re easier to remember than key commands. Hollywood studios and online content creators use Character Animator to bring their characters to life in real time. It integrates seamlessly with other Adobe apps like Premiere Pro and After Effects.

People and crowd animation software was developed specifically for architects and designers to add 3D animated characters to their projects quickly and easily. With anima®, 3D people become human beings. The new 4D Digital Humans are able to preserve every detail of the clothing and offer impressive facial animations. In addition, with the Ambient 3D characters you can populate the middle and front planes of a scene increasing the realism. anima® uses the same high-quality 3D people found in our metropoly® collections, so there’s no need to compromise on quality. Our actors are driven by real mocap data and a sophisticated AI engine with an automatic procedural motion to achieve super-realistic crowd animations. Add life to your Archviz or any other visualization project! anima® brings up a toolset to easily populate your still renderings and animation videos using our 3D Scanned Metropoly® Ready-Posed and Metropoly® Rigged 3D Human models.

Say hello to a revolutionary solution for capturing and reconstructing full body motion. Animate 3D lets you turn videos into 3D animations for use in games, augmented/virtual reality, and other applications. Simply upload a video clip, select output formats and job settings, and RUN! It's that simple. Animate 3D lets you create animations from video clips in seconds, drastically reducing development time and costs. And with pioneering features such as Physics Simulation, Foot Locking, Slow Motion handling and now full body motion combined with Face Tracking you have more control and flexibility to create high-fidelity 3D animations. Upload custom FBX or GLB characters, or create new models directly through Animate 3D, and our AI will automatically retarget animations onto your custom characters. Plus with an interactive animation previewer you can verify your 3D animation results immediately before downloading and copying into your solution.

RADiCAL was founded to develop the world’s most powerful computer vision technology focused on detecting and reconstructing 3D human motion from 2D content. AI-powered 3D motion capture — in the cloud and on every device. To achieve this, we are using multiple bodies of science in a proprietary configuration, including computer vision, deep learning and anthropometry. Our system continually learns and perpetually improves. In our minds, we will never truly be done. Our goal is to see the technology implemented across mobile, web and enterprise environments, seamlessly powering 3D animation in film, TV, art, gaming, AR/VR, as well as industrial and health applications.

Academy Award winning Massive Prime™ is the complete solution for authoring, directing and rendering custom autonomous agents for animation and visual effects. Massive is the world’s most sophisticated crowd simulation software for rapidly creating realistic crowd scenes. In many cases, our Ready To Run Agents™ together with Massive for Maya or Massive for Max is the ideal solution for creating crowds. But when a shot calls for agents to perform custom motion or behaviors, then choose Massive Prime. Massive Prime's intuitive node based interface allows artists to interactively create AI enabled agents without any programming. Whether your custom agents number in the few to thousands, professional artists rely on Massive Prime to deliver realistic and natural crowd performances that are without equal. Each agent can have any number of actions. Actions can be motion captured clips or keyframe animations.

Capture, edit, and play back complex animations with MotionBuilder® 3D character animation software. Work in an interactive environment optimized to help you work faster and more efficiently without compromising creativity. Produce high-quality 3D character animations with prebuilt moves. Create realistic character movements using one of the industry's fastest animation tools. Fine-tune character animations with production-proven tools used to manipulate motion capture data. Included software development kit and FBX data exchange enable easy interoperability with other 3D applications. MotionBuilder software is available with a subscription only. We no longer sell perpetual licenses. Your MotionBuilder subscription gives you access to install and use the 3 previous versions. With a subscription to MotionBuilder software, you can install it on up to 3 computers or other devices.