Expressive Animator v1.7.0 is now available for download. This update focuses on improving usability, touch interaction, and creative workflow, bringing new features that make the animation process smoother and faster than ever.

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🎨 Elastic and bounce effects are motion design favorites, but also some of the most time-consuming to create. Luckily, new tools make it easier. Meet Expressive Animator: lively animations in seconds, no tedious work of manual keyframe editing required: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/09/crea...

Expressive Animator v1.6.0 is now available for download. This version brings support for negative letter spacing, splitting text into lines and words (in addition to chars), and other fixes and improvements.

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Expressive Animator v1.5.1 is out, and it brings support for importing SVG filters. Currently, we support all CSS filters and a small subset of the filter primitives, with more to be added in future releases.

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Expressive Animator v1.5.0 comes with new features like SVG text import, enhanced capabilities for the Gradient and Text tools, position tooltip for guides, and many bug fixes and improvements. Also, the trials have been reset, so you can try all the new additions.

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The first tests with vector brushes in Expressive Canvas are highly encouraging. We added support for creating custom brushes from vectors (see at 01:00), and it works wonderfully. Of course, the UI is just for testing purposes; the final work will be much more advanced and appealing. 😁

Yo! If y'all have been looking for a good alternative to After Effects for puppet animation, I discovered a software called Expressive Animator!

Been practicing making emotes in it, and it's been amazing so far! Can't recommend it enough, if you're looking for a good simple 2D puppet animator!