ToonSquid - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

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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4.55 out of 5

383 ratings in United States

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Microphone!!

It’s a great app. Super new to animation, would love if the app allowed audio to be added with the microphone. But $9.99 is a good price indeed

Freeze

This app keeps on freezing on me and I have to restart my iPad. Just so it will work for a few seconds.

So Good!

This App Is Probably The Best Animation App I’ve Seen! I See Most “Professional” Animation Apps Have A Very Messy And Crunched Together Setup For All The Buttons, ToonSquid, However, Has All Of The Great Features, But They’re Not All Crammed Into One Space. Great App, 10/10

Great but

I love all the things that can be done with ToonSquid! However, I wish there was a way to draw vertically. I’ve tried searching for a way to animate vertically on the device.

Blown away. End all animation app! Finally!

Goodbye years of procreate, procreate dreams, flippa clip, and even animation desk! This is the most intuitive app I’ve seen in the last decade for animation. This is a dream app, look at the reviews, where do you find something so perfectly made with a GUI that makes things so easy to navigate and focus on exactly everything you’ve ever wanted in an animation app!!! (I used 3 exclamation marks as this is no exaggeration) Thank you for making and sharing this.. This is inspired and enlightened app building to its core. Why can’t big companies do something like this? Because they are too big for their own development britches. It takes an animator with talent, drive, and experience to make an app like this. Thank you!

Could be better

The app is fun. After my first animation, the app just kept pulling me back. I think animating with this app is not very stressful to the point that I quit frequently on a project, and it gives me a little bit of motivation to keep coming back and working on new projects. The only problem I have is when you select or transform a drawing and rotate it and then deselect the drawing, it messes the selected part up. It gets all pixelated and distorted, but it’s not really that big of a deal. Just something I don’t really like. The app is probably going to get addicting for me

Question

Can you possibly asap set the app to where you can face it horizontal or vertical? I prefer to animate with my device vertical and it’s less stressful :D i attempted to use autorotate my for my screen but I’m assuming the app is set to be horizontal.

This app is very good and I love it and I have a suggestion.

Could you please add svgs? I work a lot with maps and it would be very helpful to import svgs to help me make my videos easier with maps. Thanks

Top-Class Achievement

This is all you need to make animation sequences. Believe the hype. The UI is so thoughtful, from the perspective of an actual working animator (rather than someone making a UI sizzle reel, pretending that animation is created magically with sparkles…). I have an old iPad and the brushes are smooth, whereas the the other famous animation apps don’t run well on this device. It’s a very transparent tool, meaning you can best focus on your work rather than struggle with the features. Love it. Thank you.

Excuse me Toonsquid you might need to fix this

How come when I add an animation that took me 5 hours to do that is 8 fps per second to my 34fps per second animation it’s shortens the song in the 34fps WHICH MAKES NO SENCE because the 34fps was at 2872 drams cause of the song I added but when I added a fire animation made on scene 2 it shortens both the song to 1007 frams and the fps to 14 LIKE HELLO THAT MAKES NO SENSE you need to fix this ToonSquid because I spent way to long on that fire animation just for it to shorten the fps and the song frams

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