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.
Extensive functionality. Easy to use. Great value.
Rick Evertsz
This app is very powerful. It’s no toy, despite the cheap price.I animate in Moho on Mac, and will continue to do so for my “serious” work. I only bought this because it was so cheap. Nevertheless, I have grown to love it already and am enjoying using it to doodle out ideas. I feel that it will become an integral part of what I do, much as Procreate is. It’s so nice to be able to freely sketch out ideas on an iPad before being shackled to a desk to do the final animation. Not that you can’t create polished animations with ToonSquid; it’s just that I am already heavily invested in Moho.I wish the developer every success. ToonSquid deserves to become the Procreate of the animation world.
woes and wins of toonsquid
duck1e.6
i would like to start that i am a beginner animator and toonsquid has helped me far more then any free animation app ive tried, that being said it isnt any holy holy grail but its definitely a solid choice. a few things i dont like about the app are the lack of a ruler feature and the fact you cannot colour/add onto the animations background. i love making unique and special cool looking backgrounds with dynamic shapes and textures but i have to use a completely separate layer if i wish to colour/alter said background. its annoying for longer term scenes and as someone who values a clean clean layout it doesnt sit right that the actual background isnt on the same layer as the base background. with the wish for a ruler tool, i have incredibly shaky hands and i cannot draw circles and squares evenly enough which frustrates me to no end. while i get toonsquid is BUILT for experienced artists who can draw squares and circles well enough it isnt made for people with shaky hands/fingers without a ruler tool. also there are some lag issues (i dont know if its lag, i did just start using it) with my layers switching randomly to a different one which really confuses me and forces me to start over on a certain part when i draw because the layer switched to another while i drew it. all that being said, i like how straightforward toonsquid is and it was very easy for me to understand.
Phenomenal
Jabberwick
I’ve found this to be easily the best animation software for iPad. It feels like it’s been made by someone who actually animates, but more importantly, someone who actually uses their own software to animate. It is so intuitive and familiar, any time I found myself asking “I wonder if it has-“ the answer was almost always: yes. It does. Of course it does, because familiarity with an animator’s workflow and needs have been considered. Powerful and yet lightweight. Runs like a charm.Would love to see mirror tools implemented in the future, for both drawing and bones.
One of the best animation apps
gdbshdh
Honestly one of the best animation apps and never regretted purchasing this. It’s everything I needed in a na animation app with really good friendly UI fit for mobile devices or a tablet. Has so many features definitely worth the price as well as always backing up your projects.Update : I’ve came across a bug whenever I duplicated a project it would be an error now and then,
- 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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