Animation Desk® Draw & Animate

Name: Animation Desk® Draw & Animate
Rating: 4.2 (15281 reviews)
Author: Kdan Mobile Software LTD

Create animation with us

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad

15K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Entertainment
Developer

Kdan Mobile Software LTD
Language

EN
+ 11 More
Size

418.2
MB

Also Included In

Creativity 365 Suite

Entertainment

New price alert! Get Animation Desk Ultimate for only $4.99. Search “Animation Desk Ultimate” on the App Store. Have fun exploring the world of animation. Learn how to make cartoons and animations, and share your videos on YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram. Check out the video tutorials in the app, or get animation tips on our website. AWARDS - Recommended by EdTech Impact, Edshelf, EducationalAppStore.com, All about apps in YOUR classroom, iPad Educators - Featured by Apple on iTunes Home Page - Featured by TechCrunch - Featured by Yahoo Tech HOW TO CREATE FRAME-BY-FRAME ANIMATION Animation Desk works like a digital flipbook. You can start from the first frame or a keyframe. Use the brushes or selection tool to complete their work. CREATE ANIMATION WITH VIDEOS & PHOTOS Import video and photo, and add fantastic animation effects. MANY EDITING TOOLS • Draw with different brushes or customize your own • Add captions or subtitles for your animation • Setup color palettes for characters or scenes • Other editing tools: rulers, selection tools, and more PLAY WITH FRAME & LAYERS • Trace the motion with onion skinning • Easily manage frames in the frame viewer • Duplicate or repeat a frame, set up FPS to control the speed • The basic version includes 3 sketch layers and one background layer Export • Export animation as a video, GIF, and PDF sheet! • Export animation into Photoshop and make advanced editing • Export individual frames as images PLEASE NOTE Animation Desk is free to download and use, and more features are available in the subscription plans. The basic version includes ads. For more information, please refer to the Term of Service below. SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS • Kdan Cloud 500GB • Animation Desk Pro with 500G Kdan Cloud storage • Animation Desk Pro for students and educators • Creativity 365 with 1 TB Kdan Cloud storage" Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Subscriptions will be charged through your iTunes account at the confirmation of purchase. Your subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your iTunes account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period, for the same duration and at the current subscription price. You may manage your subscriptions in your iTunes Terms of service: https://kdanmobile.com/en/terms_of_service Privacy Policy: https://kdanmobile.com/en/privacy_policy CONTACT US Email: helpdesk@kdanmobile.com Helpdesk: http://support.kdanmobile.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/animation_desk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/animationdesk

Ratings & Reviews

4.2

out of 5

15K Ratings

Great app, but lose the glitches
11/27/2021

Kendall. C
I have been using this app for a while, and the tools available from the start (without the pro version) are enough to create some decent looking art. The app does also offer optional layering for your animations, which will also enhance your drawing’s appearance. As a final pro for the app, it does pretty well tracking your finger and other makeshift pens, if you do not have pen device available for use and lag is rarely a problem. However, there are a handful of major problems with the app that should be looked at. First example, you may experience a bug that causes a section of drawing to be completely erased for no particular reason, and when the user tries to reverse the bug (with the back button) it does not work. This is a rare occasion, however it is still a major problem I have come across. To expand on the back button, I don’t understand why the button only offers a certain amount of times you may go back when it is pressed. This is a problem, because when you have a background already drawn, and you run out of back button uses, you have to erase the portion you don’t want. But, along with the erasing of the unwanted portion, it will erase the background portion as well. Please adress these problems, because I love to use this app.

Developer Response
Hi Kendall, thank you for your review and feedback, we really appreciate it. We will report the bugs and your suggestions about the redo/redo feature.
Great app, but lose the glitches
11/27/2021

Kendall. C

I have been using this app for a while, and the tools available from the start (without the pro version) are enough to create some decent looking art. The app does also offer optional layering for your animations, which will also enhance your drawing’s appearance. As a final pro for the app, it does pretty well tracking your finger and other makeshift pens, if you do not have pen device available for use and lag is rarely a problem. However, there are a handful of major problems with the app that should be looked at. First example, you may experience a bug that causes a section of drawing to be completely erased for no particular reason, and when the user tries to reverse the bug (with the back button) it does not work. This is a rare occasion, however it is still a major problem I have come across. To expand on the back button, I don’t understand why the button only offers a certain amount of times you may go back when it is pressed. This is a problem, because when you have a background already drawn, and you run out of back button uses, you have to erase the portion you don’t want. But, along with the erasing of the unwanted portion, it will erase the background portion as well. Please adress these problems, because I love to use this app.
Developer Response 11/29/2021
Hi Kendall, thank you for your review and feedback, we really appreciate it. We will report the bugs and your suggestions about the redo/redo feature.
Some REALLY helpful updates that can really improve Animation Desk:
12/30/2019

RoiBRocker
I thought of some really helpful updates that would really help the drawing community. The first one is the pen. The pen which draws a circular line is to small at max size, and should be bigger at max size. Its hard to draw stick figures with such a small pen, and it would be amazing if it could be bigger. Also, the majority of animators who animate with this application animate on an iPad Pro, like me, and drawing with one hand on the screen and an Apple Pencil on it at the same time interrupts the drawing that were drawing. I think their should be a setting to make it so that the screen doesn’t sense my hand but only the Apple Pencil. Many other applications already have this and it would be great if this did to. Stabilizer: If you’ve ever used Paint Tools Sai, you know what I’m talking about. In Paint Tools Sai, they have an option called the stabilizer which makes lines more smooth by giving what your drawing a delay to make the drawing more curvier. In Animation Desk, my circles always turn out straight and not round. A circle looks lie 7 lines put together and if Animation Desk hade a stabilizer tool, that would be AMAZING! I really hope you read this, because it took me a long time to type, and if you did, please please please add these things to Animation desk in the next update! Thanks! 🙂

Developer Response
Hello RoiBRocker, thanks for your awesome review. We have put your suggestions about the brushes, palm rejection, and stabilizer in the backlog. Thank you.
Some REALLY helpful updates that can really improve Animation Desk:
12/30/2019

RoiBRocker

I thought of some really helpful updates that would really help the drawing community. The first one is the pen. The pen which draws a circular line is to small at max size, and should be bigger at max size. Its hard to draw stick figures with such a small pen, and it would be amazing if it could be bigger. Also, the majority of animators who animate with this application animate on an iPad Pro, like me, and drawing with one hand on the screen and an Apple Pencil on it at the same time interrupts the drawing that were drawing. I think their should be a setting to make it so that the screen doesn’t sense my hand but only the Apple Pencil. Many other applications already have this and it would be great if this did to. Stabilizer: If you’ve ever used Paint Tools Sai, you know what I’m talking about. In Paint Tools Sai, they have an option called the stabilizer which makes lines more smooth by giving what your drawing a delay to make the drawing more curvier. In Animation Desk, my circles always turn out straight and not round. A circle looks lie 7 lines put together and if Animation Desk hade a stabilizer tool, that would be AMAZING! I really hope you read this, because it took me a long time to type, and if you did, please please please add these things to Animation desk in the next update! Thanks! 🙂
Developer Response 12/31/2019
Hello RoiBRocker, thanks for your awesome review. We have put your suggestions about the brushes, palm rejection, and stabilizer in the backlog. Thank you.
A little laggy but so far I love it
08/09/2021

chandrareeves
Honestly I Love it’s really fun and cute I love how it’s really calming to look at the only problem I have is that it is pretty laggy, I recently just saw that 3 days ago you guys had fixed the problem but in my case after literally after a minute the app would stop and freeze and I try to push random buttons but it would still be frozen. Other then that I do have a few suggestions I would definitely give this app 5 stars because I love how the canvas is small and cute it honestly makes me want to animate with big canvases it’s really stressful for me because it makes me feel like I have to add more to the Animation. But On This App I feel very comfortable and very chill when it comes to this app but the suggestions that I have is * stabilization* It would be grate to have a stabilization pen or tool so we can have more of clean lines as I do have shaky hands it would definitely be very helpful to have. *Vector* and last is vector it helps whenever I want to scale my drawing big or small without loosing any Resolution (won’t get blurry) every time I change the size of my drawing. Other then that I really love this app if these things get fixed and if my suggestions actually go into planning this will be total Five star!!!

Developer Response
Hi, thank you for your feedback. We are investigating the bug now, and hopefully we can fix it in the next update. Thank you for the suggestions! For bigger drawing area, please hide the timeline and layer panel. We also note down you suggestions on the brushes stabilizer and a vector brush.
A little laggy but so far I love it
08/09/2021

chandrareeves

Honestly I Love it’s really fun and cute I love how it’s really calming to look at the only problem I have is that it is pretty laggy, I recently just saw that 3 days ago you guys had fixed the problem but in my case after literally after a minute the app would stop and freeze and I try to push random buttons but it would still be frozen. Other then that I do have a few suggestions I would definitely give this app 5 stars because I love how the canvas is small and cute it honestly makes me want to animate with big canvases it’s really stressful for me because it makes me feel like I have to add more to the Animation. But On This App I feel very comfortable and very chill when it comes to this app but the suggestions that I have is * stabilization* It would be grate to have a stabilization pen or tool so we can have more of clean lines as I do have shaky hands it would definitely be very helpful to have. *Vector* and last is vector it helps whenever I want to scale my drawing big or small without loosing any Resolution (won’t get blurry) every time I change the size of my drawing. Other then that I really love this app if these things get fixed and if my suggestions actually go into planning this will be total Five star!!!
Developer Response 08/11/2021
Hi, thank you for your feedback. We are investigating the bug now, and hopefully we can fix it in the next update. Thank you for the suggestions! For bigger drawing area, please hide the timeline and layer panel. We also note down you suggestions on the brushes stabilizer and a vector brush.
Good for learning the ropes, BUT way too glitchy
02/03/2021

Unhappy Animator
I’ve encountered multiple issues while working on an animation. I’ve spent over a month working on an animation, and given that it’s my very first one, I’m extremely frustrated. I will only be talking about the most recent major problems I’ve had.Earlier today I was working on my animation and it was perfectly fine. These problems occurred after a couple of hours.First of all, while I was working on adding to each of my frames, the background for one of my frames became the background for all of my frames. I was nearly finished with the line art for all of my frames when this happened. This is incredibly frustrating because I was using the background as references for the character movements, and originally each of the backgrounds were the person in different positions.Secondly, soon after, I saw that the line art for all of my frames became a previous version. What I mean by this is that I spent the last week or so darkening all of my line art, but the current version is how the line art looked before it was darkened and before I added heads to the person I was animating. The last week or two of my work are now gone.I have also filed a ticket through the app and hope to receive a response soon. I have been working on this animation since December 22nd. It is now February 2nd. I have put countless hours into this and have gotten too far to see it go to waste.

Developer Response
Hi, we are so sorry that the app does not perform as expected. We appreciate that if you can help us out to solve this problem. Please provide your device model. OS version, and the ad.pacakge to helpdesk@kdanmobile.com. Please also check the followings,1. Did you replace the background? If so, what type of original background did you have in the sequence? Is it a video or an image?2. After the problem occurs, is there any rules for the replaced image? For example, is it the first frame of the video background?We are very sorry for the troubles and are doing our best to solve the issues. We feel sorry for asking for more information, but your support will help us detect the causes. Thank you.
Good for learning the ropes, BUT way too glitchy
02/03/2021

Unhappy Animator

I’ve encountered multiple issues while working on an animation. I’ve spent over a month working on an animation, and given that it’s my very first one, I’m extremely frustrated. I will only be talking about the most recent major problems I’ve had.Earlier today I was working on my animation and it was perfectly fine. These problems occurred after a couple of hours.First of all, while I was working on adding to each of my frames, the background for one of my frames became the background for all of my frames. I was nearly finished with the line art for all of my frames when this happened. This is incredibly frustrating because I was using the background as references for the character movements, and originally each of the backgrounds were the person in different positions.Secondly, soon after, I saw that the line art for all of my frames became a previous version. What I mean by this is that I spent the last week or so darkening all of my line art, but the current version is how the line art looked before it was darkened and before I added heads to the person I was animating. The last week or two of my work are now gone.I have also filed a ticket through the app and hope to receive a response soon. I have been working on this animation since December 22nd. It is now February 2nd. I have put countless hours into this and have gotten too far to see it go to waste.
Developer Response 02/05/2021
Hi, we are so sorry that the app does not perform as expected. We appreciate that if you can help us out to solve this problem. Please provide your device model. OS version, and the ad.pacakge to helpdesk@kdanmobile.com. Please also check the followings,1. Did you replace the background? If so, what type of original background did you have in the sequence? Is it a video or an image?2. After the problem occurs, is there any rules for the replaced image? For example, is it the first frame of the video background?We are very sorry for the troubles and are doing our best to solve the issues. We feel sorry for asking for more information, but your support will help us detect the causes. Thank you.

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