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.