Nodebox

Nodebox: Nodebox is a nice tool that lets you design 2D Visuals using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie. It is free and well documented. Create static, animated or interactive compositions using simple primitives such as rectangles and ovals, import images and vector files from Photoshop and Illustrator or play around with text paths. NodeBox supports Core Image so you can create layered images using transformations, blend modes, alpha masks and filters and all hardware-accelerated. You can apply all of these transformations to text as well. NodeBox uses Python programming code which is easy to understand even for non-programmers.