What's a good 2D animation program (an alternative for e.g. Flash CS)?
Some alternatives for Flash are:
- Pencil (available in the Software Centre)
- Synfig (available in the Software Centre on 16.04)
Both may not be as powerful as Flash, but they may get your work done.
Synfig is probably what you are looking for.
The software's main focus is vector animation but it's able to do animated gif's as well. I'm reasonably certain it's the closest thing to Flash you're going to find on Linux (as of this typing).
In addition to Pencil (which has notoriously slow development) and Synfig, Ktoon was recently resurrected as Tupi and is being actively developed as of writing this.
It has a more familiar interface for animation and only uses a single window, unlike Synfig