ToonSquid is a powerful 2D art and animation studio for your iPad. Its flexible layer system allows you to combine the charm of hand-drawn traditional animation with keyframes that automatically animate layer properties over time. With a library full of beautiful, blazing-fast and fully customizable pixel and vector brushes, a smudge tool, animated text and vector shapes, video and audio layers, camera movements, symbols and many more features, ToonSquid makes it easy to bring your vision to life.
* Traditional animation:
- Create hand-drawn frame-by-frame animations
- Control how long you want to show each drawing in the timeline
- Draw in resolutions of up to 4k
* Keyframe animation:
- Add keyframes to automatically animate layer properties over time
- Choose from an extensive list of customizable easing curve presets to create organic motion between keyframes
* Powerful layer system:
- Define the order and length of each element in your animation using layers and drawings and a flexible timeline
- Organize your layers into groups for a clean workflow or to use them for pre-compositing
- Use the camera layer to quickly define the visible portion of your animation in the export
- Mask layers to other layers, even when their contents are animated
- Choose from 27 industry-standard layer blend modes for beautiful compositing effects
* Fully-customizable brushes:
- Draw gorgeous brush strokes with ToonSquid's state-of-the-art digital brush engine
- Take full advantage of Apple Pencil's pressure and tilt sensitivity and the iPad Pro's 120Hz display for lag-free drawing
- Use vector brushes to create brush strokes that are sharp at every zoom level
- Edit any of the 60+ brush settings and import custom textures to create a brush library that is perfectly tailored to your art style
- Blend your strokes together using the smudge tool
- Draw in a variety of styles such as sketching, inking, wet mixing, pixel art, and more
- Export and share your custom brushes with others
- Import your existing library of Adobe® Photoshop® brushes
* Efficient symbol workflow:
- Split your animation into separate clips that you can then reuse multiple times using symbols
- Make edits to an animation clip and immediately see the changes in all of its symbols
- Use frame markers to quickly add keyframes showing different parts of a symbol, e.g. for an easy lip-syncing workflow
* Text:
- Add text layers and animate their appearance
- Import and use your favorite fonts
- Type bidirectional text and use IMEs for non-Latin-based languages
* Vector shapes:
- Quickly add common vector shapes from the shape library
- Create custom shapes using the path tool by placing and editing each curve control point
- Fill and stroke your shapes with beautiful gradients and edit them directly on the canvas
- Animate the visible length of a path using its trim properties
* Color:
- Use ToonSquid's powerful color picker with plenty of different interfaces to choose the exact colors you want to work with
- Create custom color palettes to speed up your workflow and even share them outside of the application
- Pick colors straight from the canvas using the pipette tool
- Fill connected regions quickly with the fill tool
* Audio and video
- Add audio clips to your timeline and perform lip-syncing animations
- Hear the exact audio that matches each frame of your animation while you scrub through the timeline
- Import videos, GIFs and images into your project and work with them through symbols
* Transform
- Animate every layer's position, rotation and scale properties using keyframes
- Customize the position of the layer pivot
- Add transform layers and build transform hierarchies to quickly achieve more advanced movements
- See and edit your layer's entire motion path directly on the canvas
* Numerous export formats
- Share your work by exporting it in one of many common export formats such as MP4, MOV, GIF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, and more.
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ToonSquid FAQ
Is ToonSquid free?
Yes, ToonSquid is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is ToonSquid legit?
✅ The ToonSquid app appears to be high-quality and legitimate. Users are very satisfied.
Toonsquid ist eine echt gute Animations-App, besonders für Anfänger. Die Bedienung ist ziemlich einfach und man findet sich schnell zurecht, auch wenn man noch nie animiert hat. Es gibt ein paar praktische Tools, mit denen man schnell coole Ergebnisse hinbekommt, ohne sich groß einarbeiten zu müssen. Was mich ein bisschen stört, ist die Auswahl an Pinseln – die ist ziemlich begrenzt. Gerade, wenn man ein bisschen mehr rumprobieren möchte, fehlt da einfach was. Ich hoffe, da kommt in Zukunft noch ein Update. Trotzdem macht die App echt Spaß und funktioniert super, wenn man unkompliziert Animationen machen will. Für Anfänger oder Leute, die ein einfaches Programm suchen, ist sie auf jeden Fall zu empfehlen! Sachen die noch verbessert werden könnten sind z.B. das Bucket feature/ fill in feature.
Toll!
ToonSquid ist wirklich eine großartige Animations-App. Für mich hat sie alle Features, die ich brauche: Einzelbildanimation, Vektorzeichnen und -animation, Tweens, Verschachtelung, Loops usw. Die Benutzung ist für mich sehr einfach, denn das Interface orientiert sich an den etablierten Animationsprogrammen.
Das nur kurz, um dem Entwickler zu danken: DANKE! … jetzt muss ich aber weiter-animieren.
Ach ja, es würde mich freuen, wenn ich die App auch am Mac mit einem größeren Bildschirm nutzen könnte.
Die BESTE Animationsapp auf dem iPad.
Noch nie habe ich 10€ für eine App ausgegeben und mir gedacht „das war’s wert“ bis ich Toonsquid fand. Diese App ist die BESTE Animationsapp aller Zeiten.
Besonders nützlich sind die Keyframes, welche sehr simpel sind zu benutzen, oder auch die Vector Art Stifte. Auf 30 FPS oder mehr zu animieren ist keine Schwierigkeit mehr mit Toonsquid.
Diese App ist sooo underrated und braucht UNBEDINGT mehr Fame!! Gibt euer Geld für diese App aus, das Lohnt sich!
This is truly the best animation app for Ipad
This is 100% worth the prize! (it has a lasso tool unlike *other* animation apps (if ykyk)) I’ve been using Toonsquid for a long time now and I absolutely love it! (You can even make very basic rigs with the transform hierarchy feature which is amazing!!) And the interface is very easy to understand (I am very impatient and never watch tutorials but I understand everything in this app perfectly!) 6/5 stars!! (I wish that would be possible lol)
Got me excited about animation again
Amazing what you get here for as little as 10 quid! I used to work with one of the big (and expensive) 2d animation softwares but now I use toonsquid whenever it‘s possible. It‘s so much more fun and so much more intuitive and I enjoy it a lot - which you can see in the outcome. I do miss some features from time to time, some things could be improved for sure, and on bigger projects I still mostly work on my PC due to the clumsy file handling in ipadOS - but apart from that I am blown away and feel very grateful for this app which brought back the fun in animation for me.
Awesome
Works great, love it.
However I would love if it would be possible to save a brush size at the brush to which I can always jump to.
I would also love it if more procreate brushes could be imported.
And an automatical selection of an area to e.g. fill it would be great
Otherwise greatest animation app !
Extraordinary app with perfect UI
Simple enough to learn the basic functionality in one hour (there are very good tutorials on YouTube!), yet powerful enough for professional work. Only downside is, that the new features of Apples Pencil Pro are not (yet) supported. Hope, the developers will continue working on this superb app!
D A N K E !
Ich habe fast alle Animations-Apps ausprobiert. ToonSquid ist eindeutig der Sieger. Die App ist einfach unglaublich toll und für alles konzipiert, was ein Animator braucht. Anfänger benötigen nur etwas Übung, und für Profis mit begrenztem Budget ist ToonSquid absolut empfehlenswert. Ich liebe diese App.
Danke an die Entwickler
Was soll ich sagen…Danke!
Die App hat Hand und Fuß, ihr (die Entwickler) haben sich wirklich Gedanken gemacht wie man auch auf dem iPad vernünftig animieren kann. Weiter so! Aus meiner Sicht gibt es nur noch eine Nuss die es zu knacken gilt und die bisher noch niemand auf dem iPad geknackt hat: Farbpaletten ändern. Also Farbpaletten anlegen, Colorieren und dann die Möglichkeit haben die bereits zugewiesenen Farben projektübergreifende im Nachhinein zu ändern. (siehe Open Toonz)
Aber nichts desto trotz GUTE ARBEIT und Danke!
Succeeds Where Procreate Dreams Does Not
You are getting a far more robust piece of software with this app than with Procreate Dreams.
This app comes with a full suite of drawing and editing options - including vital basic artist tools and functionality, such as selection lasso tools, warping tools, customisable resolutions, layer rearrangements, vector lines, convenient timeline automation for resyncing frames (when you remove one, for instance) a customise-able brush engine, easy to read and as intuitive an experience as you're going to get with a complex piece of animation software.
The only drawbacks i encountered were that It doesn’t seem to have timeline based layer effects, (such as lens blur or transition effects) and the drawings will crop if they go out of the active area. These are the only two areas where Dreams is “better“, but which isn't worth the price in its current state.
Seriously consider ToonSquid first before going for Dreams.
Dreams is barely an alpha product as it stands.
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