In ToonSquid, you can create 2D animations by combining hand-drawn frames, applying keyframe effects, and managing layers with a comprehensive timeline. Includes customizable brushes, vector tools, video and audio layers, and camera controls for detailed animation projects.
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About ToonSquid
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.
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Reviews for ToonSquid
Let me die pls
Absolute Perfection, but just one detail (And a language)
Making my Shows is an important thing to me and for this software is the go-to for me now, (even though an Android version would be the best thing someone can ever do for people who don’t have an Ipad) I would want maybe just one feature: The option to retain the selected drawing layer within an animation layer, as it gets annoying to open the layer tray and select the layer every time I split a drawing, I even forget and then the animation gets mostly ruined because I forgot and accidentally make a new drawing layer instead of drawing in the layer I previously selected before splitting the drawing. I think that would be all for me, I’ll make work arounds for it, until there’s something that can do it. I would also like this in Spanish, as one of my relatives only reads in the language but wants to try out this app.
Cady268
GREAT APP but needs more brush options
Overall, this app is an amazing tool for iPad animators, but it lacks variety in the basic brush set. To be more specific, they all kind of have the same line shape, line flow, etc It’d be cool to see them add more brushes in the near future. I’ve had this app for about a year now, and although it’s great technical wise, I don’t open it very often. I kinda see this app as an investment, and once they add for brushes, I can see myself using this everyday. I would love a brush that tempers off at the end, or that has better pressure sensitivity. I don’t like how every brush starts and ends the same width, since it makes it hard to add interesting lineart. Good for cartoons, not really great for anything else. Still a great app tho!