ManimCommunity/manim

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A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations.

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Open beginner issues: 2
Indexed issues: 396
Avg merge: 3d 12h
Merged PRs (30d): 25

Dominant language: Python
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue help wanted

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396 open issues indexed

Arrow3D: expose the cone's resolution (currently unconfigurable, 95% of the arrow's submobjects) Open

new feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

ManimCommunity/manim#5020 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Use overrides of children in family operations Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

ManimCommunity/manim#5018 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2026
`CurvesAsSubmobjects` error messages contain hardcoded class names Open

good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4983 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Add stack trace to warnings Open

easy good first issue new feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4981 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Changing cap style of Mobject to ROUND is influencing Write animations behavior Open

issue:bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4979 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 31, 2026
manim.cfg reading not working as expected Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4963 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 25, 2026
No zoom for opengl Camera Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4949 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Line object bending in unexpected ways during animation Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4945 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Parallel Scene builds Open

new feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4942 · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Support classless construct Open

new feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4933 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Mobject.split() behaves differently between Cairo and OpenGL Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4932 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 11, 2026
The docs are confusing Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4909 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 2, 2026
VGroup using OpenGL renderer incorrectly layers fills and strokes (macOS) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4890 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 17, 2026
Combining a parent-group .animate with a child .animate in the same self.play() silently drops whichever comes first Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4865 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 4, 2026
Experimental: Manimation Freezes Consistently, but Randomly Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4863 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 3, 2026
Why do self.set_camera_orientation() and self.move_camera() produce different results? Open

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ManimCommunity/manim#4862 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 2, 2026
"Exception: Not sure how you reached here" when `ParametricFunction` takes invalid values Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4838 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 28, 2026
Unexpected scaling behavior (especially complicated VGroup object) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4836 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 27, 2026
`DecimalNumber.set_value` ignores rotation Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4830 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 21, 2026
Feature request [Color]: Support for perceptual color models (Oklab, Oklch) Open

new feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4820 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 19, 2026
Text color attribute ignored on constructions Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4817 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 18, 2026
Feature request: Add methods to control audio playback (pause/stop) for add_sound Open

new feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4815 · Opened Jun 17, 2026
opengl: deprecate unused dim parameter on OpenGLMobject Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4806 · Opened Jun 12, 2026
scene: deprecate foreground_mobjects in favour of z_index ordering Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4805 · Opened Jun 12, 2026
graphing: align coords_to_point return type in base class with subclass behaviour Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4804 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 12, 2026
geometry: unify generate_points and init_points in Arc Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4803 · Opened Jun 12, 2026
color: implement ManimColor.gradient() instead of raising NotImplementedError Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4802 · Opened Jun 12, 2026
config: return ManimColor instance from background_color property Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4801 · Opened Jun 12, 2026
Create() does not suspend Mobject updating Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4763 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 2, 2026
Audio broken after silence in rerendered video Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4751 · 3 comments · Opened May 29, 2026
Audit and triage of TODO/FIXME markers in hotspot source files Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4747 · Opened May 27, 2026
Extract fit-to-size methods from mobject.py into a mixin module Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4735 · 3 comments · Opened May 19, 2026
Reduce # type: ignore count in manim/_config/utils.py Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4734 · 1 comment · Opened May 19, 2026
SquareToCircle animation from README example looks odd? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4724 · 1 comment · Opened May 6, 2026
Depth of mobjects doesn't get calculated correctly when `--renderer=opengl` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4721 · Opened May 6, 2026
SVGMobject not displaying svg correctly Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4699 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 18, 2026
Allow `manim init project` into existing folder Open

new feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4693 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 14, 2026
Font size calculation for text and MathTex is very confusing Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4690 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 14, 2026
`Text` Mobject does not recursively propagation to submodules key `kwargs` arguments Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4667 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 31, 2026
add_fixed_orientation_mobjects fails with MathTex Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4645 · Opened Mar 18, 2026
Error in center of rotation for add_fixed_orientation_mobjects() Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4644 · Opened Mar 17, 2026
ManimCE 0.20.1: MathTex bounding box changes size when shifted Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4643 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 16, 2026
`Surface` has incorrect checkerboard coloring Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4639 · Opened Mar 15, 2026
Utility `dvisvgm` in homebrew's MacTeX does not support converting PDF to SVG Open

installation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4632 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 9, 2026
Extra frame of animation with dt-updater Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4611 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 24, 2026
Refactor TipableVMobject tip placement to avoid curve deformation and transform coupling Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4608 · Opened Feb 22, 2026
Experimental test issue tracker Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4592 · Opened Feb 16, 2026
Requirements for latex line operations Open

new feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4541 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 23, 2026
Strengthen strict=False passes to zip() calls Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4521 · Opened Jan 13, 2026
ThreeDScene displaying elements in wrong position in the 3D space Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ManimCommunity/manim#4517 · Opened Dec 18, 2025

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