Muvizu vs Pencil2D

Muvizu is Windows software for creating 3D animations and rendering them as videos. Both Muvizu:Play and Muvizu:Play+ include automatic lip sync. Play renders in SD with a watermark; Play+ offers 1920 x 1080 output and unlimited watermark-free video. Play+ also supports importing user-created.set,.fbx and.ase content. The listed export formats are AVI and Targa sequence.

The plans differ in their character and scene libraries. Play lists 2 customizable character types, 75 character attachments, 79 objects, 1 special effect and 1 scene. Play+ lists 17 character types, 990 attachments, 570 objects, 22 special effects and 77 scenes. The Play+ price is $69.99 a month, billed as a one-off payment; the pricing note says from $69.99. A free plan and free trial are listed. The maker says watermarked Play output is for educational, non-commercial or personal projects, and that Play+ has no commercial restrictions. Muvizu requires Windows; listed minimum requirements include Windows 7 or newer, a 2.4 GHz processor, a Shader Model 3 graphics card and 2.3 GB of free disk space.

Pencil2D is free, open-source software for creating hand-drawn 2D animations. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux and, according to the homepage, FreeBSD. The project provides stable builds for Windows 7 or later, macOS 10.14 or later on Intel, and both 32-bit and 64-bit Linux. Artists can switch between raster and vector workflows for sketching, inking and painting. A timeline manages keyframes, while dockable tool and color windows accompany an unlimited canvas with a camera field. Onion skin displays drawings before and after the current keyframe, with controls for drawing count and transparency. Sound can be imported through a sound layer, although waveform display is still pending. Exports include MP4, WEBM, AVI, GIF, APNG and PNG image sequences. Video importing, text tools and shape tools are not implemented. Pencil2D is free for commercial use. Help is available through its forum, Discord, tutorials, FAQ and user manual.