Cartoon Animator
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Plans and prices
From Cartoon Animator's own pricing page, checked 21 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Trial | — | 30 days · 5 project saves |
| Full | $149 a month | Commercial use · No usage-time limitation · No watermark · billed annually |
| Cartoon Animator 5 Full | $149, paid once | Commercial use · no usage-time limit listed · 1700+ embedded content · One-time purchase; billing interval not stated |
The facts
Each one read from Cartoon Animator's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- 2D animation tools
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- 3D motion
- Cartoon Animator can project 3D motion onto 2D characters, and Motion Link connects it to iClone for real-time motion preview and editing.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Animation
- Listed features include puppet animation, motion paths, spring dynamics, free-form deformation, body and facial animation, and 2D talking heads.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Assets
- The product page describes over 30 included scenes and image backgrounds and custom scenes with up to 500 embedded props.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Character rigging
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Content management
- Smart Content Manager downloads free or purchased assets inside Cartoon Animator and supports searching, tagging, and organizing assets across drives.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Export
- It supports transparent MOV video and PNG image-sequence export, including export of selected items for compositing.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Export formats
- MOV,WMV,AVI,MP4,MPG,MPEG,popVideo,JPG,PNG,BMP,TGA,GIF,SWF,ProRes 4444checked 21 Sep 2026
- Privacy
- Reallusion's privacy policy says it collects information provided by users and information gathered through its website, including anonymous site statistics, domain names, and IP addresses.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Cartoon Animator creates animatable 2D characters from images, photos, paintings, layered Photoshop PSD files, and vector graphics.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Rigging
- Its 2D Bone Editor lets users build bone rigs and constrain areas with pins.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Support
- The online manual directs users to product FAQs and further assistance, and the FAQ page says users can submit a Reallusion support ticket under the Cartoon Animator 5 category.checked 7 Oct 2026
- System requirements
- The download page lists Windows 11, 10, 8, and 7 SP1 and requires a 64-bit operating system.checked 7 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Creative apps
- The product supports PSD and SVG workflows and lists an After Effects script; its page names Photoshop, Illustrator, CorelDraw, Affinity Designer, Inkscape, and Krita among supported editors.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- windowschecked 21 Sep 2026
The company
- Founded
- 1993checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Silicon Valley, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 21 Sep 2026
- Trial limits
- The 30-day trial has a 30-day usage limit, permits five project saves, adds a watermark, and does not include commercial use according to the comparison table.checked 7 Oct 2026
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