TupiTube (previously KTooN and Tupi 2D) is a

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software developed and maintained by the Colombian startup, Mae Floresta. It is available for

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under the terms of the GNU GPL-2.0 or later license.

Application editions

TupiTube App -

version of the software for mobile devices TupiTube Desk -

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version of the software for

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History

The ''KtooN'' software project was started by two Colombian animators in 2002 and was under continuous development until 2006. In 2009 the project was put on hold, but later redesigned and a new stable release was made available in 2010. Since then the project is no longer under active development. ''Tupi'' (later rebranded as ''TupiTube'') was started in 2010 as a

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of ''KTooN'' by its former co-developer. Later, Mae Floresta took over development of the project.

Features

* Support for basic tools for

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illustration that includes rectangles, ellipses, lines, and polygons. Paths can also be created using the pen or pencil tool. The paint bucket tool can be used to fill bounded areas of vector objects. *

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images (sometimes called Bitmap) can be imported and used as either static backgrounds or animated assets. * Finished animations can be exported to various file formats that include:

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, SWF. They may also be exported as a sequence of images in

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format. * Basic support for tweaking of positions, colors, rotation, scale, shear, and opacity has been added to recent releases.

References

External links

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TupiTube on Google Play
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History

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