awesome-2d-animation
github.com/markmohr/awesome-2d-animation ↗:books: A collection of tools, datasets and papers about inbetweening and 2D animation.
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1. Software
- Adobe Animate
Live2D
- Blender
OpenToonz
3. Raster-based Animation
- A Method for Animating Children’s Drawings of the Human Figure
TOG 2023
- As-Rigid-As-Possible Image Registration for Hand-drawn Cartoon Animations
NPAR 2009
- As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Interpolation
SIGGRAPH 2000
- As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation
TOG 2005
- Colorized
ToonCrafter: Generative Cartoon Interpolation
- Colorized
ToonComposer: Streamlining Cartoon Production with Generative Post-Keyframing
5. Differentiable Rendering + Optimization-based Animation
- AniClipart: Clipart Animation with Text-to-Video Priors
IJCV 2024
- Breathing Life Into Sketches Using Text-to-Video Priors
CVPR 2024
- Dynamic Typography: Bringing Text to Life via Video Diffusion Prior
ICCV 2025
- FlexiClip: Locality-Preserving Free-Form Character Animation
ICML 2025
- Generative Cutout Animation
EG 2026
- LiveSVG: Zero-Shot SVG Animation via Video Generation
arxiv 26.05
6. LLM/LMM-based Animation
- AniMaker: Multi-Agent Animated Storytelling with MCTS-Driven Clip Generation
SIGGRAPH Asia 2025
- Anim-Director: A Large Multimodal Model Powered Agent for Controllable Animation Video Generation
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
- Keyframer: Empowering Animation Design using Large Language Models
arxiv 24.02
- LogoMotion: Visually-Grounded Code Synthesis for Creating and Editing Animation
CHI 2025
- LottieGPT: Tokenizing Vector Animation for Autoregressive Generation
CVPR 2026
- MoVer: Motion Verification for Motion Graphics Animations
SIGGRAPH 2025
2. Dataset
- AnimeCeleb
AnimeCeleb: Large-Scale Animation CelebHeads Dataset for Head Reenactment
- AnimeRun
AnimeRun: 2D Animation Correspondence from Open Source 3D Movies
- Anita
Anita Dataset - An Industrial Animation Dataset
- CreativeFlow+
Creative Flow+ Dataset
- Sakuga-42M
Sakuga-42M Dataset: Scaling Up Cartoon Research
7. Interactive Animation Tools
- Autocomplete Hand-drawn Animations
SIGGRAPH Asia 2015
- Draco: bringing life to illustrations with kinetic textures
CHI 2014
- DrawTalking: Building Interactive Worlds by Sketching and Speaking
UIST 2024
- Energy-Brushes: Interactive Tools for Illustrating Stylized Elemental Dynamics
UIST 2016
- Kitty: sketching dynamic and interactive illustrations
UIST 2014
- Motion Amplifiers: Sketching Dynamic Illustrations Using the Principles of 2D Animation
CHI 2016
4. Vector-based Animation
- BetweenIT: An Interactive Tool for Tight Inbetweening
CGF 2010
- Computer Aided Inbetweening
NPAR 2002
- Context-Aware Computer Aided Inbetweening
TVCG 2017
- Deep Geometrized Cartoon Line Inbetweening
ICCV 2023
- DiLight: Digital light table – Inbetweening for 2D animations using guidelines
C&G 2017
- Efficient Interpolation of Rough Line Drawings
PG 2023
0. Survey
- Generative AI for Cel-Animation: A Survey
arxiv 25.01
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