20 Useful HTML5 Animation Tools

Heard about HTML5 yet? It's the new standard for the web. Apple loves it. Microsoft fully supports it. Google says it rocks. And Several debate have been made, whether the latest HTML5 innovation (HTML5 animation) is likely to replace flash in animating web content. But i think, it's now becoming the favorite of most developers.

Recently, tons of Html5 animation tools were released, which allows you to design and create stunning animations that work particularly well with websites. Here's a roundup of 20 useful HTML5 animation tools you can start using. I'm confident this list will assist a novice, intermediate or experienced developer.

See also: CSS Animation Tools and Tutorials

HTML5Maker

HTML5Maker is an online animation tool created by OnlyMega LLC. It allows to produce cross-browser animated content such as JavaScript and HTML5 animation, Slideshows, Presentations and Sliders. The Animation can be easily integrated into existing website adding a fun or professional look to it.

Adobe Edge Animate

Adobe has always been the path creator in the animation industry. Creating interactive, animated web content just got a whole lot easier with the launch of Adobe Edge Animate.
Design with confidence using an intuitive timeline that offers amazing precision. Edit property-based keyframes and use the innovative Pin to quicken the animation process. Edge Animate works natively in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, eliminating the need for plug-ins.

NodeFire

NodeFire is a responsive focused HTML5 animator for your website. Emulate desktop, tablet, and mobile devices while in design mode. Create one animation that automatically responds to fit any environment. It's only 18K (Gzip) script library with no dependencies.

Purple Animator

With Purple, you will create beautiful HTML5 animations with ease. Purple animations can be viewed on mobile devices and on your Desktop.
Import assets directly from graphics applications like Adobe® Photoshop® or Pixelmator and start creating at once!

MotionComposer

MotionComposer is a perfect tool for the prosumer and professionals, MotionComposer bridges the gap between enthusiast and professional web designer, giving everyone the ability to create their own HTML5 or Flash® animations easily.

Mixeek

Mixeek is a free software tool for designing and executing web animations and interactive animated web applications. It is purely based on JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5. It's been developed to bring lightweight, easy to use alternative to well known paid animation software tools.

Mugeda

Mugeda is an online HTML5-based technology to create professional HTML5 rich media creatives, which can be deployed to smart devices such as PCs, smart phones, tablets, and smart TVs.

Tumult Hype

Tumult Hype is a keyframe-based animation system. With Tumult Hype, you can create beautiful HTML5 web content. Interactive content and animations made with Tumult Hype work on desktops, smartphones and iPads. No coding required.

TweenJS

TweenJS is a simple tweening library for use in Javascript. It was developed to integrate well with the EaselJS library, but is not dependent on or specific to it. It supports tweening of both numeric object properties and CSS style properties. The API is simple but very powerful, making it easy to create complex tweens by chaining commands.

Google Web Designer

Google Web Designer makes is easy for designers and developers to create engaging, interactive HTML5-based designs and motion graphics that can run on any device.

HTML Kickstart

A project by 99Lime. HTML Kickstart is an advanced canvas framework designed to work for most advanced HTML5 and CSS3 projects. It has been tested and working in IE 8+, Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari IOS, Browser and Chrome Android.

GSAP

GSAP is a suite of tools for scripted, high-performance HTML5 animations that work in all major browsers. It’s built to scale from simple fades to rich, immersive experiences packed with all sorts of animation. It’s built to give you a rock-solid animation workflow across all of your projects that require animation.

Radi

HTML5 is the new standard for the web. And Radi lets you enjoy it without learning to code. Radi is designed from the ground up to help you create content that will take full advantage of HTML5 features. Radi can be embedded into anything that uses web technology: web apps, mobile apps with web content, and even HTML5-compatible electronic books like Apple iBooks, Amazon's Kindle Format 8 and the EPub 3 standard.

KineticJS

KineticJS is an HTML5 Canvas JavaScript framework that enables high performance animations, transitions, node nesting, layering, filtering, caching, event handling for desktop and mobile applications, and much more.

Hippo Animator

Hippo Animator is a powerful yet easy to learn editor. It's simple to create great looking animation quickly. The HTML animation is cross browser, search friendly, doesn't require any browser plugins and supports old web browsers (even 1E6).

BLYSK

Combined power of HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript gives the possibility to create animations just like in old animation tools you are already familiar with, but without any plugins. No installation needed, just use your in-cloud image library or use built-in tools to draw anything you want. Skew, scale, rotate, animate using open web technologies.

Motion Canvas

Motion Canvas is a complete HTML5 Canvas animation system. It features an easy to use editor and powerful javascript based animation engine. It enables designers to create vivid drawings. It gives designers the power of shapes, bezier curves (pen tool) and text rendering to create interactive masterpieces.

Modernizr

Modernizr is a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the user’s browser. Modernizr makes it easy for you to write conditional JavaScript and CSS to handle each situation, whether a browser supports a feature or not. It’s perfect for doing progressive enhancement easily. It supports dozens of tests, and optionally includes YepNope.js for conditional loading of external .js and .css resources.

DisaPainted

DisaPainted is Web 2.0 based website for creating, sharing, watching hand-drawn frame-by-frame animations using modern HTML5 techniques for the fastest and the most enjoying drawing.

Animatron

Animatron is a simple and powerful online tool that allows you to create stunning HTML5 animations and interactive content.

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