Create motion animations and add special effects to your videos.
Animate text and graphics in your video
Apply digital effects to your animations and videos
Use keyframes to create smooth motion transitions
Export finished projects as video, flash or animated gifs
Express Animate is animation software that gives you the ability to animate shapes, text and imported images. You are also able to enhance your movie projects in post-production using key-frame stop motion animation, masking, dummy objects and more.
Get it Free. A free version of Express Animate is available for non-commercial use. If you will be using Express Animate at home you can download the free version here.
Create Stunning Animations
Express Animate helps you create stunning animations using objects, images, illustrations and videos. Choose from a wide array of effects and animation tools to add your creative flare to your project.
Get creative with applying transformations and effects to image objects.
Quickly convert a color object to black and white or sepia. Enhance an object by adjusting color temperature or saturation. Use key frames with the object properties to motion tween, zoom, rotate and more.
Character Animation
Add life to your characters. Animate separate body parts or group multiple objects together to optimize the animation process.
Use the timeline to move your character and create animations. Use multiple layers and keyframes to add special effects, audio and more.
Advanced Features
Express Animate has advanced tools for experienced animators and graphic designers, including vector masks, onion skins, blending modes and a graph editor for precise animation.
Export as Video, GIF or HTML5
Save active composition to any video file format or as HTML5 web content. Use Express Animate as a GIF animator to export looping gif animation videos. Export animations in multiple video file formats including: MP4, FLV, GIF, 3GP, ASF, AVI, DV, APNG, MOV, MPG, OGV, RM, SWF, WEBM, WMV
Easy-to-Use Drawing Tools
Customize colors, gradients and fills for your objects. Easily add lines or draw objects with the vector-based pencil tool.
Pure Digital Audio Tools
Add audio effects such as chorus, echo, distortion and more. Record your own narrations with the click of a button or use sound effects from the free Sound Library.
Detailed Composition Panel
Each object has a unique set of properties that can be edited or animated. Easily animate an object's position, scale, rotation, color and more. Adding keyframes to the timeline is intuitive and fast.