Synfig Studio

Everybody knows famous projects like GIMP and Inkscape, but what about the smaller ones? Synfig Studio deserves more attention for providing all major platforms with a pretty impressive free animation editor (imho the gallery on the website does not really communicate that). I have recently had the chance to work with it on a little status.net intro and am surprised by its features. It still is far from being a professional and full fledged animation package like adobe after effects, but you can do some decent work with it already. There is lots of room for improvement concerning video-import and audio-import - which puts a big focus on animation itself. But all hope is not lost, there are PiTiVi Openshot Audacity and Ardour!

The Synfig Studio team will soon release a fresh version. Watch out for it!