# Looking for animation software

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-animation-software/804438>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 13, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-animation-software/804438 "2017-12-13T21:13:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-animation-software/804438/1 "2017-12-13T21:13:24Z")

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I’m looking to make a few math animations and I want the look and feel and feel of 3blue1brown ([example here SFW](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJYmyhnaaek)). He uses python which I could certainly do but I need a primer on the animation libraries and how to do graphics in python first.

What animation software would I be looking at to get me animations in this style?

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-animation-software/804438/2 "2017-12-14T21:39:42Z")

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Giving this one a bump, because I would like to know too.

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**Author:** ![Doubticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@Doubticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doubticus)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-animation-software/804438/3 "2017-12-14T22:17:29Z")

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No direct experience, but I would start here:

> **[Top 11 Best Animation Software free to download for windows 11 / 10](https://thegeekpage.com/top-10-best-animation-softwares-free-download-windows/)**
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> Whether you are a beginner or an expert in the field of animation, a great animation software is what you need apart from the other programs and tools. Making

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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-animation-software/804438/4 "2017-12-14T23:27:06Z")

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I looked at those a while ago. They are either geared for professionals (and cost it) or too simplistic.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-animation-software/804438/5 "2017-12-15T08:05:35Z")

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> [@Saint\_Cad](#):
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> I looked at those a while ago. They are either geared for professionals (and cost it) or too simplistic.

I’ve a feeling that the animations of the type you linked above probably aren’t a simple as we might wish. I keep hoping there would be a solution for amateurs that produces good-looking results, but is still simple to use, but I suspect this is really the Dunning-Kruger effect in action - these guys make it look easy (because they are good at it), so I want to believe it would be simple for me to do it.

BTW, Microsoft Powerpoint does animations, nearly to the point of being timeline-based, but it’s just painful to get any kind of sequenced complexity out of it.