Show HN: Cartoon Studio – an open-source desktop app for making 2D cartoon shows

Category: devtools

Tags: animation, desktop-app, text-to-speech, video-generation, electron

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 8, Technical: 7, Documentation: 9, Utility: 6)

Cartoon Studio is an open-source desktop application for creating 2D animated shows from scripts, integrating text-to-speech with lip-sync, scene composition, and video rendering. It's interesting because it combines multiple AI services (LLMs for scripting, vision models for SVG rigging) with deterministic animation pipelines and supports 13 different TTS providers while maintaining local control and privacy.

Target audience: content creators, animators, indie developers, educators

Repository: https://github.com/Jellypod-Inc/cartoon-studio · TypeScript · Apache-2.0 · 41 stars

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