ToonSquid

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.