Interactive Media: Tools for Animators

Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline.

Free and open-source 2D animation software for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork.

Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Developed by a group of volunteers as open source.

Adobe has released official tutorials to teach users the ins and outs of Adobe Animate and other Adobe software.

Adobe has released official tutorials to teach users the ins and outs of Adobe After Effects and other Adobe software.