# Godot - Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine

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**Created:** [10 March 2022 14:50 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/godot-free-and-open-source-2d-and-3d-game-engine/44260 "2022-03-10T14:50:23Z")\
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Godot has a full 2d animation system inside of it (skeletons and all, it’s surprisingly powerful).

Here are some of its docs:

General Sprite keyframe animations:

> **[2D Sprite animation](https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/2d/2d_sprite_animation.html)**
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> Introduction: In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create 2D animated characters with the AnimatedSprite class and the AnimationPlayer. Typically, when you create or download an animated character...

General 2D animation:

> **[Introduction to the 2D animation features — Godot Engine (3.0) documentation...](https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/tutorials/animation/introduction_2d.html)**
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> The AnimationPlayer node allows you to create anything from simple to complex animations. In this guide you learn to: Work with the Animation Panel Animate any property of any node Create a simple animation Call funct...

2D sprite animations:

> **[2D Sprite animation](https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/tutorials/2d/2d_sprite_animation.html)**
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> Introduction: In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create 2D animated characters with the AnimatedSprite class and the AnimationPlayer. Typically, when you create or download an animated character...

Advanced and powerful 2D skeletal animations (including some software suggestions on helping to make them, but it can be done all within Godot as well):

> **[2D skeletons](https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/animation/2d_skeletons.html)**
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> Introduction: When working with 3D, skeletal deforms are common for characters and creatures and most 3D modelling applications support it. For 2D, as this function is not used as often, it's diffi...

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