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CLUSTER AVATARS-STREAMING-ANIMATED · 12 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2022-12-18

2D VTuber puppet editors

These products are desktop tools for rigging and animating 2D puppet avatars used in VTubing and live streaming, often supporting PSD import and real-time performance. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from, with only 4 dated entries before the index start, so it predates the index or its members are undated. PuppetLoom leads traction with 6 stars, while nijigenerate-bin and inochi-creator-bin have 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

DEC 2022: 1SEP 2023: 1MAY 2024: 1AUG 2025: 1AUG 2026: 2SEP 2026: 2OCT 2026: 4
DEC 2022OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 ai-built · 2 hand-coded · 8 unlabelled

Operator · 6 hobby · 1 indie · 5 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 12 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01mesh-avatar-studio597★5 days—hobbyLocal editor that turns a single illustration into an animated 2D avatar that blinks, talks, and moves in real time.
  2. 02PuppetLoom237★25 days—ai-builthobbyDesktop app that enables 2D character animation and puppet rigging, supports Live2D and PSD asset import, and is designed for VTuber content creators.
  3. 03fio-motion1★10 daysliveindieOffline 2D character animation editor that rigs layered artwork with puppet pins and bones to create keyframe animations.
  4. 04ChibiRigKit0★22 daysliveai-builthobbyBrowser tool that turns a single character image into a 2D animated avatar with blinking, gaze, head motion, and exportable video for streaming.
  5. 05houdini-dna-rig-mac0★5 days—hobbyPlugin that enables importing, posing, and animating digital human character rigs in Houdini on Apple Silicon Macs.
  6. 06CosMMD0★23 dayslivehobbyDesktop tool that converts a single cosplay photo into a rigged 3D character that performs dance animations.
  7. 07virtual-delulu0★5 dayslivehobbyBrowser-based puppet theater that tracks hand gestures and animates an AI character reacting to the user's speech in real time.
  8. 08nijigenerate-bin0★4 moliveopen sourceOpen-source editor for rigging puppets, derived from Inochi2D.
  9. 09OpenToonz0★unknownlivehand-codedopen sourceTwo-dimensional animation software for creating hand-drawn and digital animated films, used professionally in feature film and television production.
  10. 10inochi-creator-bin0★1 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop editor for rigging two-dimensional character puppets used to create animated avatars for live streaming and content creation.
  11. 11Inochi Creator0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop application for creating and editing 2D animated puppet avatars used for VTubing and digital animation.
  12. 12Inochi Session0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceStreaming application that animates 2D puppet avatars in real time for live-streaming and VTubing performances.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.