ToonSquid vs VectorMotion

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.

VectorMotion is a completely free (and Ad-Free) tool for all your design and animation needs. Features : -Vector design : Create and edit vector shape layers with the provided pen and direct select tools. -Multi scene support : Create as much scenes as you need in a project without any restrictions on size or animation length. -Saveable projects : Continue where you left off. -Layers : Create shapes, texts, images, and edit their properties (Style, Geomtry, Effects). -Animation : If you can edit it, you can animate it. Just long click any property and select the option to make it animatable. -Advanced Timeline : Add, copy, reverse, delete keyframes and edit their easing for all layers at once. -Layer Effects : Add style to your layers with effects such as blur, shadow, glow, glare, perspective deformation, bezier deformation… -Puppet deformation : Create cool character animations with ease using the puppet deformation effect. -Geometry Effects : Transform your shape’s geometry by applying effects such corner rounding and path trimming. -Text Effects : Make your text animation standout by adding effects such as character rotation and blur. -Shape Morphing : Copy-paste an animated path into another, to get that cool shape morphing effect. -Path Masks : Mask any layer using the pen tool with the masking mode. -Typography : Per character styles, external font support, texts on paths, range based animatable effects… It’s all here. -Simple 3d : Transform your layers in 3d with perspective. -Advanced 3d : Extrude your shapes and texts to enable 3d rendering with PBR support. -Image library : Manage, crop, transform, tag your images and insert them into your projects. -Font Library : Import supported fonts to your library, and use them in your designs. -Remove image backgrounds : Create alpha masks for you images with ease. -Sequencer : Create sequences out of your scenes and add audio tracks to create your final movie. -Export your scenes or sequences in high quality. Supported output formats are : animations (MP4, GIF), images(JPEG, PNG, GIF), documents (SVG, PDF). Support: If you have any questions or feedback, please send an email to vectormotion.team@gmail.com