RoughAnimator - animation app

RoughAnimator - animation app

Draw frame-by-frame animation

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Graphics & Design
53 reviews
⭐️4.6 / 5
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All Versions of RoughAnimator

3.23

June 16, 2024

- Color picker is now a panel that can stay open on the side instead of a popup window - Can undo changing background color - Bug fix: crashed on deleting a layer while the layer name textbox was focused
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3.21

March 24, 2024

- Bug fixes

3.20

March 19, 2024

- Bug fixes

3.19

January 15, 2024

- Bug fix (hopefully): occasional random loss of work when hiding the app. Not sure if I actually fixed it, please report if it happens again - Bug fix: redo deleting a selection didn't work
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3.17

January 1, 2024

- Bug fix: couldn't delete a selection in "edit multiple" mode - Bug fix: dragging multiple selected drawings glitchy sometimes
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3.16

November 30, 2023

- Can move multiple selected drawings across the timeline together - Option to feather lasso selection - Dropdowns with choices for standard framerates & resolutions when creating a project - Prevents screen turning off while playing video
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3.15

October 23, 2023

- Transform onion skin (aka shift and trace) - Faster exporting - Improved GIF quality - Onion skin works in "edit multiple" mode - Bug fixes
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3.14

September 28, 2023

- UI tweaks, bug fixes - Moved playback range sliders to timeline panel
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3.11

June 15, 2023

- Bug fixes

3.10

June 1, 2023

- Redesigned icon - Can drag and drop project folders from Files app to import - Bug fixes
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Price History of RoughAnimator

Description of RoughAnimator

A fully featured hand drawn animation application for iPad. Made by an animator, for animators. Powerful enough for professionals, simple enough for beginners. Everything you need to create traditional hand drawn frame-by-frame animation, anywhere you go! Features: - Timeline with unlimited layers and easily adjustable exposure length of individual drawings, for pose-to-pose or straight-ahead animating - Onion skinning - Preview playback - Scrub along timeline - Import audio for lip syncing - Import video for rotoscoping animation - Custom brushes - Supports Apple Pencil, Logitech Crayon, Adonit & Wacom Bluetooth styluses - Control framerate and resolution - Export animation to Quicktime video, GIF, or image sequence - RoughAnimator projects can be imported to Adobe Flash/Animate, After Effects, and Toon Boom Harmony - Also available on desktop See a short film animated with RoughAnimator: https://youtu.be/vaHuJNNPoMM
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RoughAnimator: FAQ

Can RoughAnimator support iPad devices?

The RoughAnimator software is compatible with iPad devices.
Jacob KAFKA is the creator of the RoughAnimator app.
Your iOS device must have at least iOS 11.0 installed to use the app.
4.6: The RoughAnimator app gets a lot of positive feedback.
The App Category Of The Roughanimator App Is Graphics & Design.
3.23 is the newly released RoughAnimator version.
RoughAnimator released its latest update on June 30, 2024.
RoughAnimator was initially released on February 5, 2023.
The RoughAnimator app is rated Jacob KAFKA.
Currently, the RoughAnimator app supports the following languages: English.
Sorry, RoughAnimator is not part of Apple Arcade.
No, RoughAnimator is not eligible for in-app purchases.
No, RoughAnimator does not offer compatibility with Apple Vision Pro.

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Reviews of RoughAnimator

  • Great features, buggy on older ipads

    i love using this app, it is very intelligently designed. However, my files keep getting corrupted with frames being replaced by frames from previous animations, rendering the app unreliable/unusable. It also crashes occasionally. This is a huge bummer not because i payed for it, but because i love the app and is the only one that otherwise really does what i need it too. I use an ipad 8, and it seems to be an issue with the onboard memory, so someone with a newer ipad maybe wouldn’t experience these issues. That being said, if you’re coming from adobe flash/animate, this is most likely the app for you, and I certainly encourage people to skip out on the bar tonight and pay a couple bucks to try this app out.

    I also wish the app had an interpolation function, and more than 3 ultra basic brush functions, this would perfect the app in my eyes.
    An official criticAn official critic

  • To the creator of rough animator

    To start off, I love rough animator!!! It’s such a easy to understand program and I’ve yet to find a animation app that can compare. The reason for this comment is to hopefully get the attention of the creator of rough animator.
    Hello there, I’ve been using your program for the past 3 years now and I love it. Although I did want to give suggestions for the program that I and others would like to see. One of the things that comes to mind is more brushes and ability to make more complex custom brushes. Another thing is a tool inside the selection tool that can warp your drawing; kinda like how you can choose what your selection tool does in procreate. Once again I love your app and I can’t wait to see how far it’ll come!
    sad_kid_44sad_kid_44

  • Good lightweight program

    Came back here after trying out Procreate Dreams and while Dreams is a much more bigger program with a better painting engine, I prefer a lot of how RoughAnimator handles things, and also the much smaller file sizes.

    Very geared towards hand-drawn animation.
    Has a good timeline UI that is very easy to use and flexible.
    It is missing features of some heavier programs like the ability to keyframe moving of drawn objects, but also has some features a lot of them don’t have, like being able to easily draw on multiple frames at once, merge timeline tracks, and automatically loop a short section of animation for a chosen duration. The different option settings for controlling the overall duration while manipulating keyframe duration is much needed in other programs I have tried.

    Things I wish it had are better/more exporting and importing options for more compatibility with other art programs, and possibly a better way to organize sound effects rather than having them share the same layer system as the art, because sfx layers can end up bloating the timelines, if you have multiple sounds firing simultaneously.
    ttbeanbeanttbeanbean
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