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Friction
Friction is a powerful and versatile motion graphics application that allows you to create vector and raster animations for web and video.·friction.graphics
Friction is a motion graphics application for creating vector and raster animations for web and video. It uses a GPU/CPU pipeline built in C++ with Skia and the Qt framework, supports animated SVG via SMIL, multiple scenes/timelines/viewers, and an ECMAScript-based expression editor with a full code editor. It also includes text, path, and experimental shader effects.
What it's for
Television and film title sequences, commercials, and visual effectsWeb design: animated logos, banners, and interactive elementsSocial media: animated posts and storiesPresentations: animated infographics and slideshows
Features 10
- Animated SVG creation using SMIL (W3C-recommended)
- Complete code editor with autocompletion, syntax highlighting, and custom functions
- Development/nightly builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS
- Experimental user-customizable shader/raster effects
- Expression editor supporting ECMAScript in parameters and effects
- GPU/CPU vector and raster rendering pipeline built in C++ with Skia and Qt
- Multiple scenes and timelines with multiple viewers and graphs
- Open source GPL-3.0 licensed source code available for download
- Portable versions for Windows and Linux
- Text and path effects for vector graphics