Release your creativity and craft beautiful and engaging animations and artworks on your iPad with ToonSquid, no matter if you are a beginner or a professional artist.
ToonSquid is the 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, animatable effects, a smudge tool, animated text and vector shapes, bones with inverse kinematics, 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 and effects properties over time
- Choose from an extensive list of customizable easing curve presets to create organic motion between keyframes
- Easily loop your keyframe animation
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 animate multiple layers at once
- 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 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
Vector Shapes
- Create custom shapes using the path tool by placing and editing each curve control point
- Quickly add common vector shapes from the shape library
- Import SVG files
- 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
Animatable Effects
- Create character rigs using bones and add inverse kinematics constraints
- Create custom meshes to deform pixel layers when they are part of a bone rig
- Animate perspective and warp effects
- Apply adjustments, blur, pixelation, drop shadow, chroma key, halftone, parallax and more effects
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 symbol instances
- Use frame markers to speed up your lip-syncing workflow
Text
- Add text layers and animate their appearance
- Import your favorite fonts
Color
- Use ToonSquid's powerful color picker with plenty of different interfaces to choose the exact colors you need
- Create custom color palettes and share them outside 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
- Import videos, GIFs and images into your project and work with them through symbols
Transform
- Animate a layer's position, rotation and scale properties using keyframes
- Build transform hierarchies to achieve more advanced movements
- Edit your layer's motion path directly on the canvas
Numerous Export Formats
- Export your work in one of many common file formats such as MP4, MOV, GIF, PNG, JPEG, PSD, and more.
JUST TRY IT !, once you get find your style and way it will wrwire your mindset with your workflow.. Simple but can get more complext and organised at the same time... Cant wait to see how the next version will bring to the table.
It would’ve been perfect but…
galaxtsu
This app is GREAT. The apps UI is very similar to Procreate, so it’s easy to transition from and saves space on your device. It has basically everything I need, it has the lasso tool, the brushes, rigs, etc. I switched over here from FlipaClip, annoyed that (FlipaClip) could do only 1 onion skin on the previous frame on the free version. And this app blew me away. The UI was easy to use, and it didn’t ads that would play whenever I would open the app. However, I have 3 (very minor) nitpicks. First of all, I wish there was a wider variety of brushes in the app by itself, like one brush I’d like to have is a highlighter brush. But this can easily be solved because of the fact you can import brushes. Second, there’s this bug that keeps happening to me. Whenever I add a new frame, instead of it only lasting 1 frame, it will stretch and last for around 3 seconds. Then I’d have to zoom out, adjust the length, and then zoom back in, and scroll back just to fix the issue. I really hope the devs see this review and update this, and I’ve already sent a bug report with a video attached. Thirdly, you can’t change the font or color of the text, if you can, then it would be really hard to find. Besides that, I’d recommend this app. Don’t let the my nitpicks or price discourage you from buying this app.
I WAS SHOCKED?!
PinThing
Alright so…I’m an inspiring animator, yearning to bring to life my characters and animation ideas through animated skits and storyboards. Before anything, I only had free softwares to rely on. Each had a cool features that promised usefulness but always lacked a thing or two which didn’t really help me till I got ToonSquid. GOD DANG THIS APP IS AMAZING!!! IT HAS EVERYTHING : Layers, fill brush, tweeting, keyframes, audio, videos….ETC. It’s like IbisPaint mixed with Adobe Animate and it’s LIT. I can’t wait to start posting in my YouTube channel! Big W for the developers, this software was worth every absolute virtual penny.
amazing app! truly the best for animation but i have a request
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Please add custom graphs to keyframes. Videostar has custom graphs and i feel like it would be really useful if we could make our own. Thank you.
- Fixed a bug in 2.0.26 that caused the selected drawing layer to change when deleting, cutting or copying a selection region of a layer.
Version 2.0.27
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