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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

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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

At a glance

free tieropen source
TypeDesktop app
DeploymentInstalled (local)
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux

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Last checked 24 days ago·