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Animation Desk® Draw & Animate

Addictively fun and instantly usable. Animation Desk is the most comprehensive ani-mation tool in the app store. Available on both iPad and iPhone, Animation Desk al-lows you to create animations, drawing cartoons or just some light sketching when you're on the go.
Category Price Seller Device
Entertainment Free Kdan Mobile Software LTD iPhone, iPad, iPod

Why Animation Desk?
+ Featured in Top100 iPad Entertainment apps in 86 App Stores
+ Featured by Apple on iTunes Home Page
+ Featured by “TUAW” (The Unofficial Apple Website)
+ Featured by TechCrunch
+ Perfect app for learning animation concepts
+ Perfect app for learning and practicing animation skills

What’s more?
+ Enhanced for iPad Pro
+ Perfect with Apple Pencil, Wacom Intuos Creative Stylus and Adonit Pixel
+ Insert images to selected project, frame and layer directly from your photo library
+ Import your animation projects to Write-on Video Cloud for post-production, add subtitles, captions, transition effects and audio to enhance your animation works

DRAW YOUR ANIMATION
Create amazing hand-drawn animation frame-by-frame
Transform video clips into frames and import them to animation projects
Supports rotoscoping
Over 20+ brushes
Advance onion skinning that shows previous frame in shades of green and the next frame in shades of red
Copy and paste from existing drawings

CREATE ANIMATIONS LIKE A PRO
Advanced frame manager: repeat, duplicate, delete, or rearrange frames with ease
PSD file compatible, export animation frames as PSD layers or import any PSD files to your animation project
Unique frame tagging and annotation system
Customizable shortcut bar

PLAY
Set up any FPS (frame per second) as your like
Play animation backward
Replay your animation in loops

EXPORT AND SHARE
Export your animation as MOV, GIF, PDF storyboard, PSD, AD Package
Export frames or projects as PSD layers
Export video in 16:9 screen ratio
Share animations on AniZone, a great animation community, for feedback and ex-changes

••••• GO PREMIUM WITH YOUR KDAN ID •••••
Sign up and enjoy your free trial!

+ Access to all the extended tools in Animation Desk & Kdan Creative App series across phone, tablet, and desktop
+ 1TB cloud storage to back up your projects, extension available
+ Online video converter

Have a question? Contact us at [email protected], or drop us a message on Animation Desk Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/animationdesk. Follow us on Facebook for our latest offers and regular news on what's new in the world of animation.

KDAN CLOUD SUBSCRIPTION PLANS
Kdan Cloud: $2.99/month or $9.99/year
Animation Desk Pro: $3.99/month or $15.99/year
Creativity 365: $9.99/month or $59.99/year

Subscriptions will be charged through your iTunes account at the confirmation of pur-chase. Your subscriptions will automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of current subscription period. Your iTunes account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, for the same duration and at the current subscription price. You may manage your subscriptions in your iTunes Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during an active subscription period.

Reviews

Good but...
music pls98

Ok so this app is AMAZING for animations but I want to put in music except I can’t find the button to put it in if you con make it more out there that would help.


Sooo hard!!
Richard_13

It has problems, first, no paint bucket tool, that’s the most BASIC thing...the oldest animation maker (Mario paint) even THAT has a paint bucket tool, and that was in the 80s..also I need to either get a tablet or a touch screen pen, it’s SOO HARD to draw with this thing!! Don’t waste your time unless you got a iPad, touch pen, or ALOT OF PATIENCE!!


I love it!
Mrrrrrrrrr mel

I just got this app and I know I am going to use this for everything. I do have one idea that could make it better, in my opinion. I think that there should be a fill tool. I’m doing hair for one of my drawings and it would be easier to fill it in. Please consider this. Thank you.


I remember playing this game but
Katerina and Jeena

Amazing but needs a warrior cat anaimation


Big issue
Tinkymc

Why can’t I send each individual frame like “animation creater”? Why can’t I export individual frames to my gallery? I’m trying to send frames to a friend so she can tough up on the animation and eventually start up a YouTube channel, but no...


Can’t Add Audio?
every name is taken what

I haven’t used the app yet because I can’t find a way to add audio to the animation before exporting it. I went to the support page and it told me I had to download the finished animation BEFORE you could add audio to it. What?? How am I supposed to sync the animation to the audio without... the audio??? If there’s no way to add audio DURING the animation process, then this is a waste of my time.


Pencil lags extremely bad
jubes223

App is unusable because of how bad the pencil lags. I do not have this issue in other apps so it’s not my pencil’s fault


It’s perfect to use(but there is one tiny problem)
HereComeDatBoiBro

I love this app(for the amount of frames I can use and it looks way more smoother than when I used ibs), and I would recommend this for someone who needs a good animation application to use. But, there is a tiny problem that grinds my gears a bit(not really but it does), I like to put on my music from time to time, so I get out of the app to open Spotify, then when I go back in its frozen, it won’t do anything even if I go back out then back in again, even when my phone auto shuts off, it will freeze. Is there a reason why this happens? If not then that’s fine, but it kinda makes me annoyed. But all in all, it’s a good application and I recommend it.


Awesome!
musiqian

I love this app. It is great for simple animations and more advanced ones. It is very beginner friendly and I love this app!


The Best Free Animation App I’ve Ever Seen!
PockLoverAnimator

PLEASE READ THIS REVIEW!!! I just bough this app yesterday, however, it’s quality continues to amaze me! Although it might not be what famous animators use, this is an amazing FREE first step. First of all, I am going to list the pros of this app. 1. No stupid adds interrupting your work. Luckily, there are no pop adds when you are drawing. I’m guessing because this has a premium version, there are no need for adds. I have not stumbled upon one yet. 2.Onion Skin and Copy Onion skin, for any artist/animator is a life saver. You have no idea how many times this has saved me! The copy scissors are also a plus, you can drag, stretch, past, and rub your object on any page! 3. Time Teller Not only does this app let you animate, it also tells you the time at the bottom. 4. VERY EASY TO USE I mean this in no offensive way, but luckily you can use this app with ease. The controls are very easy to figure out and are a lot of fun! I can’t wait to see what I’ll discover next! 5. MUSICCC yayay From what I’ve heard, you can add music on this app. Still haven’t figured out where though... Now, for the cons. 1. Only 1KB use. I understand this is a free app and you have spent time and money on this, and the premium version probably has more. I’m saving up my money now!^_^ (jk I’m not poor) 2. The Storyboard The storyboard option in my opinion, is kinda useless. You add the images on AFTER you completed the story. I wish what you could do is let artists just sketch what they want their scenes to be BEFORE they animate. 3. The Background When you paint the background, it also turns your objects that color. I understand how to fix that because it was the problem in another app but, it is a real pain to do! You have to make sure all of the lines ‘connect’ so that no paint seeps through. Now, for some suggestions for this lovely app. Please update it to where you can mirror an object! You know, when you have an eye and you really can’t draw the other one, you can just mirror it so that it matches, but is reverse. This would help out a lot, PLEASE do this!!! I’m not sure if this is premium tool or not, but I’ve looked around and done some research and so far, that put to no avail. In drawing, after you draw with pencil, you trace over with pen and then erase the pencil lines. This is not, however the case for this app. Maybe, you could add a mode of the eraser where it only erases the pen? I’m not sure if this really already exists, if so, I apologize for ranting. But, for right now, this app is just the thing I needed to animate. Thank you for this! Thank you, if you had time to read this long review to the very end, and I hope you have/ have had a wonderful day! (Edit) Thank you for the response developers, it means a lot to me!


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