Moving Picture Studio

What Moving Picture Studio is

Moving Picture Studio is a free, open-source program for creating stop-motion animation. Its project workflow includes opening and saving projects, adding and removing frames, duplicating frames, and undoing or redoing changes. Completed drawing tools include pencil, line, spray, bucket fill, pipette, eraser, and rectangle; resizing is still marked as work in progress. For previewing animation, the program lists ghosting visibility and a viewport that can be zoomed and rotated dynamically. GIF export is listed as complete. Linux x64 and Windows x64 are the supported and tested platforms. The project says the application also works on ARM processors, including Raspberry Pi, while macOS x64 works but is unstable. Some areas, including layers, toolbox, color selector, ghosting options, and menu, are only partially done. Planned work includes animation import and playback, PNG strip export, copy and paste, brush and selection tools, and configurable key bindings. Tablet pressure support is described as a distant-future item pending the SDL library. The project is written in C++ and uses OpenGL 2.1/ES 2.0 and SDL; its repository includes an MIT license.