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STUDIO GHIBLI JUST HANDED YOU THEIR ANIMATION SOFTWARE.
The studio behind Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and Princess Mononoke built their films on a tool called Toonz. In 2016 they open-sourced it. It now sits on GitHub, completely free, and most animators have no idea.
It's called OpenToonz.
This is not a stripped-down "community edition." It's the actual production software, with Ghibli's own custom modifications folded directly into the public release. The same toolset that drew some of the most beloved films in cinema history is a free download on your machine right now.
→ Hand-drawn frame-by-frame animation with onion skinning
→ Vector and raster drawing in the same workflow
→ The GTS scanning tool Ghibli built for digitizing hand-drawn art
→ Node-based effects, compositing, and color tools
→ Skeleton rigging for cut-out and puppet animation
→ Frame-by-frame motion tracking
→ A scripting console for automating repetitive tasks
→ Runs on Windows and macOS
Toon Boom Harmony, the industry-standard alternative, costs up to $1,575 per year. Adobe Animate is $263 a year, forever, and you never own it. Both stop opening the day you stop paying.
OpenToonz costs $0. You own it. It works offline. It never expires. And it has a feature set built by a studio that won an Academy Award.
Every aspiring animator believes the barrier to entry is expensive software. That belief is the only thing the paid tools are actually selling.
Ghibli quietly removed that barrier nine years ago.
The whole thing is open source. Clone it, build it, or download the installer and start drawing today.
100% free. 100% open source. BSD-3 License.

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