Animation Pro

Name: Animation Pro
Rating: 3.83333 (138 reviews)

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Animation Pro

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User Reviews for Animation Pro

Phenomenal iOS animation suite w/ similarities to flash

This app is fantastic aination app for iOS. It offers some similar features to Adobe Animate, formerly Flash. Be prepared to devote some time to learning to master this professional grade software as it will involve a fair amount of reading, watching videos, and practice, but is totally worth it. You can create character models, called figures, which you can then manipulate complete with “tweening” so that you are not required to fill in every frame. Rather the software fills them in for you. For example, you may tell the figure to move across the screen while moving it’s arms and legs from one position to another and so on, and you can change the figure’s size, and the software will fill in all the intermediate frames from point A to point B across X amount of time. This is a huge lifesaver/timesaver!!! With a little imagination and ingenuity, there is soooo much that can can be done with relative ease. With an iPad Pro and an Apple Pencil, jthis app is all one needs to create high quality animations and is exactly what I was looking for. I highly recommend this app to anyone looking to create 2D animations. I also would have paid 5 times the price for it! One of the best app purchases I have ever made, hands down.

Abandoned Shell, Jul 08, 2020

Many features but you better plan ahead.

If you add anything later, you won’t be able to go back through key frames and adjust on a timeline individually like you can in blender or core animator. Yes, you can tweak slides, but let’s say you add a character halfway through when you’ve already completed the sequence. Playing catch-up and adding that character means you’ll now have to go back through the slides and fix it. This animator is more like the onion skin type animators. Another example, I tried to add a zoom camera angle after I had completed the sequence, and it was near impossible for me to line it up perfectly because there was no frame of reference from side to slide. Otherwise, this app has everything you could want. Lip-synching, sound facts, characters, ET…

Auroraambria, Sep 08, 2021

Nothing even comes close!

So first I’ll say this app is not for everyone. Sad to see that the only people give bad ratings here are those who don’t understand how to use this app, and bought it without taking the time to find out what they’re getting.Animations in general can be done in many ways. One way is to actually draw each frame and then piece those frames together and you get yourself an animation. There are several apps that do this. And the process of drawing each frame is very time consuming in all of them. Animation Pro takes a different approach. It understands that in real world parts of a figure move in a specific places. Which places is specific to your type of figure, and you have to make it yourself. You can paint it in another app slice it and assign to a skeleton that you make. Then you can set your painted figure in motion. I was looking for something like this so was very happy to find it few days ago!

GadgetMojo, May 24, 2018

Powerful, requires learning.

This app is brilliant, I understand frustration of not getting a cartoon done right away, because there is a lot that can be done in it but is not very intuitive at first. There is also some major room for improvement, my main complaints now would be that there is some bugs on the audio: the clicking sounds in the program sound on the iPad speaker even if on silent mode or if you have AirPods on, also if you try to use AirPods for music while using it, every time there is a sound in the program it pauses the music. A new, more modern UI would be greatly appreciated as well. Hope the developers see this and can update the app.

Kindly Real, Jun 28, 2022

Figuring out the ropes and a few suggestions

Hello! So Far, I've been really liking this app a lot! Especially with me being in school for mostly Animation! The one thing is that, I wish we just had a regular brush tool when making the figures. I want to make certain figures but I want them to look smooth and not choppy and block like. It's limiting to me. 2nd, for the images, I can't work with just 5 layers, and you can't add anymore as far as I know. It would be amazing if we could have more layers, and if possible, be able to export those layers into the figure maker and add rigs to them so you could have an animation using the layers! I would honestly be using this app for every project if that happened! But for now, I'm trying to figure out how I can make one of my drawings look as good on paper as it does here XDI'm sorry if I sounded negative, it really is a amazing app, but I honestly think it could be improved upon tremendously

Luigis m. Lover, Sep 22, 2017

Beyond excellent

I love this app. Just can’t say enough good things about it. Animation has always intrigued me. For nearly 3 decades I have been trying to get an animation program that I could learn quickly and express myself with. At first the computers were too weak, then things were too complicated, then everything was too expensive. Right NOW 8/18 with IOS 11 everything seems to have come together for me. The above issues are gone. Well you need to shell out for an iPad but that’s a no brainer since it gets used many many hours each day. Great fun actually being able to dream up an idea and then bring it to fruition. Animation still takes a lot of time but the results are beautiful, and there is a lot of feedback along the way. You can also combine AnimationPro with Pixomatic and for about 20 bucks you can have software that would cost 10 times that amount on a PC or Mac. Now is the time to start. The cost will go up as more people get hip to the deal. This is a Golden Age for IOS.

Nkdeddyfastfrets, Aug 25, 2018

Png sequence export! V.1.4

V2.3 The new pixelate filter is a game changer. Now I can do pixel art animation in Animation Pro!V 1.5 Now has pallet saving! Thanks for listening! Still needs it throughout the creation process though. Tedious selecting exact color every time. Thanks for adding onion skin Some very useful features added in this update. Feature Requests - .SVG import (to use with figure creation) - Inverse kinematics? Old Review: All this app needed to rise above any competition was better export options. PNG export makes this a good buy. I use it with the Hyperpad game development app. Now this needs some motion tweening along curves. Pretty advanced animation app! A light theme would be good too. A bit of re-design and polish would help also. Took away a star. Needs a pen tool for Crop Image. Also we should be able to set a custom stage size or crop the render area upon export.

Ray96m, Oct 05, 2021

User help

I was very excited to try this animation app but have been very disappointed so far. For starters it seems all of your tutorials are done on a version different than the one that I have. Getting and navigating the ability to just draw layers is proven to hard. I’m putting in the time and am seeing no development. I can effectively use Procreate and I taught that to myself. This program has some videos that are marginally helpful. I hope this has nothing to do with me using the smaller iPad. Overall I would like some help if possible. I really want to draw layers over video clips. I got the video importing down, now animating, the thing this app is supposed to do, is proving to be too hard. I will continue to work with it and would change my review but so far I see no reason. I really wanted to like this app, and it’s especially difficult because the Procreate animation is not bad just limited. This app seems to have less limits on how you can animate, but no real intuitive design.

rpm 1989, Apr 08, 2020

Confusing interface, inadequate tutorials

If not for the included figures, I would have rated it lower. I came back to it a year later—app got some new tools but as confusing as ever. If you want to create your own figures to animate, no tutorial takes you from start to finish— from creating, rigging, and finally using your figures. This is supposed to be a desktop-worthy app, but be prepared to spend serious time learning the interface & using the tools, and this is after you read the instructions and watch the tutorials. It’s target market appears to be folks well versed in it! Sad, it should be rated higher because it promises so much but gets in its own way and that’s the reason for its relatively low rating. Developer needs a focus group made up of newbies like me!

Still Looking For Perfection, Sep 05, 2020

Should be a $25 app

Scrolling through the other reviews, it seems as though most of the negative stars are based on the app’s steep learn curve. Yes, there most definitely is one with Animation Pro... but that’s a good thing!!! That means that there are a lot of features in this app worth learning. I’ve really only scratched the surface but from what I’ve seen, thus far, the app is extremely well put together and the UI is beautiful and clean. It seems very capable and very responsive. I’m truly surprised that this is only $10. If this app had been $25, I would still be very happy with my purchase. Maybe people complain because they expect less from a $10 purchase and feel overwhelmed.READ THE BUILT-IN USER’S MANUAL AND WATCH THE VIDEOS!!!Without these you will frustrate yourself. Don’t blame the developer if YOU don’t read the manual. If you want something simple to play with while in line somewhere, this probably isn’t the app for you. If you want to have a feature rich app (with mobile limitations but still badas*) to add to your animation palette then I highly recommend this one. One thing, not a complaint but an item on my wish list; I hope there is soon a way to lift the export resolution cap higher, despite mobile limitations. Maybe if one used less effects and exported shorter clips, maybe? Just so I can fuse Animation Pro in better with my RoughAnimator/Affinity Designer/Lumafusion workflow. Thank you so much for such a great app!!!

UnDterred, Feb 12, 2019

Description

Produce professional frame-by-frame cut-out-style animations on your iPad. Animation Pro includes a long list of pro-level tools, such as automatic lip-synching, cloning (for automated shadows and reflections), motion-blur and camera depth-of-field to produce stunning studio quality animations. WARNING: Animation Pro is an extremely large App that will require some effort to learn and master.

All Animation Pro help files and video tutorials may be found at http://www.hotjamdonut.com.au. We encourage prospective buyers to review this material prior to purchase. ANIMATING - Produce professional frame-by-frame cut-out-style, stick-figure or stop-motion animations - Add background images from your photo library or shoot them from within Animation Pro - Add videos as background images for rotoscoping with Animation Pro’s drawing tools - Add figures, images, text, audio and clones to your animations - Manage all of your assets using the integrated File Manager - Use a Shadow Wizard to quickly add shadows to your figures - See instant previews - Use onion-skins to see the difference between the previous and/or next frames - Copy and paste backgrounds, figures, frames and camera settings - Key figure, item and camera properties across multiple frames - Access web tutorials and nearly 500 pages of in-depth help (included) FIGURES Animation Pro provides all of the tools that you’ll need to create complex posable figures from one or more items. - Select from a library of pre-installed sample figures - Create your own figures using the integrated Figure Editor - Move, scale, flip and rotate figures - Colour, tint and set the opacity of figures - Blur, distort, shear, accent and highlight figures - Add glows, outlines and motion-blur - Stylise your figures with one of nine special effects e.g. Pixellate, Comic Book, Sparkle - Substitute figures as you animate ITEMS - Scale, flip and rotate the items within figures - Colour, tint and set the opacity of items - Bend items - Substitute items - Draw upon image items whilst you animate CLONES In Animation Pro, figures can be cloned to produce shadows, reflections or even an entire army of figures that animate automatically as the parent figure is changed. - Control which aspects of a parent figure are cloned - Use a Shadow Wizard to create realistic looking shadows AUDIO - Select from a large library of included sound effects - See audio as a wave-form on the film-strip - Record your own audio - Add audio to frames or figures - Automatically pan audio as figures move - Automatically animate/lip-synch the mouths on figures - Create your own mouths using the integrated Mouth Creator VIRTUAL CAMERA - Pan, zoom and rotate a virtual camera - Simulate camera depth of field TWEENING Animation Pro can automatically generate intermediate frames (tweens), between those that you create, to produce super smooth animations. - Take full control over which features are tweened from frame to frame - Override tweens with user-tweens where necessary EXPORTING - Export video (mov, m4v, mp4) with frame rates up to 60fps and resolutions up to 2538x1080 (Widescreen Cinema, 2.35:1) - Export HEVC video (with or without an alpha channel) from supported devices - Export image sequences (with or without transparency) - Export 3D (anaglyph or side-by-side) video or images SHARING Animation Pro allows the following items (that you create) to be exported or shared: - videos - projects - figures - images (and/or image projects) - lip-synching mouths (and/or mouth projects) - sounds For more information and tutorials, please visit http://www.hotjamdonut.com.au