Animation Creator Reviews

by FlamFlamy

Just got the new update and the glitches and bugs are endless. Every time I add a new frame and draw a new picture one of my other frames disappears for seemingly no reason. I’ll erase a piece of my picture and try to draw over it and it’ll reappear every time I erase. Brushes glitch out a lot when I try to draw a line and ends up bugging out making the brush strokes move to a completely different part of the canvas.I really would like these frustrating bugs to be fixed please they make it infuriating to animate.
Thank you

by Phan-writer

The actual animation aspect is pretty impressive for an app, but the interface is just AWFUL for creating art. The tools are terrible and it’s extremely frustrating that you can’t select and move drawings in an ANIMATION software. I wouldn’t really mind this at ALL, however, if I could import photos into frames (not just the background since that remains the same throughout an entire animation), because then I could just draw the frames in another app. At this point AnimationCreator is practically useless for actual animation, but the problems are a very simple fix. I hope to see importable frames, a selection tool, blending brush, smudge brush, better airbrush, and other improvements added in the future. Importable frames, I believe, are the most important missing feature at the moment and should be added as SOON as possible.

by CoyWolfFoxAssociate

Animation Creator is a good app for beginners in animation. It offers a good platform for learning hand drawn frames. However, there are no options for tweeting and it will not let you resize without erasing and redrawing the frame. I warn that you should not download this onto a mobile phone. The screen is too small to produce good quality animations with. AC also offers backdrops that you can choose from your photo library. I had found this very useful. Paired with some prior knowledge on animation, AnimationCreator can be a very useful learning tool.

by Toku Tea

Dear developers,

I’ve come across an issue with the new update that I would like to have fixed. I can’t zoom in as far as I could in the old version and I want to know why. Being able to really zoom in helps me draw finer details. And without that feature I can’t do the close up detail work I did with the old version. Although I really enjoy the new update I would like to see work done to bring back the ability to zoom in. Thank you for taking the time to read my review.

Your loyal animator - LavLynn

by ChibiAvatarTaang

I do wish there were more brushes and I wish that my app would have a better way to move frames around since my animation is bordering 900 frames and I everytime I go scrolling to rearrange the frames, my app force-closes on me.

And the lines always look blurry when I finish the animation and upload it. Is there any way to fix that? Imported photos always look blurry and that’s a problem since I draw some important frames in my art app and import it to the animation app, only to have the image come in blurry and slightly distorted.

Other than that, I’ve been using AnimationCreator close to four years now and it’s still the best animation app, bugs and all.

by Letusgothenyouandi

Ok, so this is a pretty good app. I like making animations and AnimationCreator is a lot better than some of the other ones. Just
two things. One, it would be great if you could blur or smudge. The other one is that I wish you could save colors! Like when you use a color, I wish you could drag it onto your color pallet. This issue has been really frustrating for me, and I’ve messed up so many times because you have to match the color exactly so it blends in. If this actually is a feature on AnimationCreator, please make it easier to access. I’m begging you to make an update in which you fix this. Please get back to me on this one, I think it’s important that you work on it.

by Cloudyartist

I’ve been animating some funny conversations with my friends but I find it frustrating that I can’t record on another app and load it onto this one. Also I don’t like the fact that I have to listen to the whole recording over again just to fix something in the animation it’s very time consuming and it makes animating more difficult. But overall I love using AnimationCreator because it brings my drawings to life and that’s something I’ve always wanted.♡︎

by FoodIsTheUniverse

So with the brushes they are not smooth they are how do I explain this they are like you are adding onto it like layers and they are very pixelated when you use them and why can’t we import sound what we have to do is record by making the sound or putting it up to a speaker to get it and that gets on my nerves so please put an option that we can import sound that’s all that’s a problem with me otherwise this is a great app

by Nastynas3

Yet another review for AnimationCreator. AnimationCreator still functions well, probably the best animation app out there, but it still has the fee bugs I mentioned before. I'm worried about the future of AnimationCreator Because it seems the developers gave up on it, which would be a shame if they did, because it's such a fine app and it would be a waste to give up on such a promising app. So I ask that you devs to please not give up on AnimationCreator, and continue to support us who support you. Thanks!!

by SkyDiverDragonGirl

Ok, I like AnimationCreator , it's pretty good, but I do have some suggestions..

1. Canvas Rotation
When drawing the frames, I think it would be easier to do if we could rotate the canvas. When I use drawing apps, I always rotate the canvas a little bit from time to time to make it easier to make the drawing.

2. Symmetry Ruler
I use a symmetry ruler almost all the time when I draw, it would be easier to make some drawings if I could use a symmetry ruler.

3. More Brushes
There's a very limited amount of brushes to work with, and we could make higher quality animations with better brushes lol

I'll probably give it a 5 star if at least one of these things is added, cus I can make better animations/drawings with them, but of course, you don't have to add them, they're just some suggestions.

Thanks for reading! <3

by |_RAD_|

For clarification, the review above came from me trying to view how a beginner would react to this.

I believe AnimationCreator itself is good, however, I do suggest they should try to add some more settings for experienced users. I haven’t experienced many bugs, and have been able to experiment with AnimationCreator to learn and create some pretty awesome things.

by Tigeroar360

I really like to go and animate on here but, not sure if this is intentional but when you put in color there are weird dots of other colors in there, maybe solid colors would be cool too! Or maybe an option for that and blending :D I’ve been having the most trouble with reading comments on my animations, which I have been dying to read! I can only see emojis if a comment has any :0 I hope that this is fixed sometime or maybe it’s just my phone being weird. Thank you for taking the time to read this! :D

by DiamondJboss

I’ve been using AnimationCreator for 4 years now and I’ve enjoyed it up until this point. Your most recent updates have ruined the performance and usefulness of AnimationCreator . I can’t zoom in as far as I could before to draw more precise lines. It’s kinda glitchy whenever I try drawing lines and AnimationCreator was simply much better a couple weeks ago. Now I can’t animate and draw how I used to and I’m thinking of not using AnimationCreator any more due to these complications. I’d just really appreciate if you guys would revert back to how it was not too long ago.

by Socalsexy

There are a couple issues I've run into so far. 1st thing is when u receive an alert or message/call, the last thing you had edited on, in your work, is unable to be undone. 2nd thing is if you want to go into your photos or even google photos, the whole app crashes and launches you from the main menu. This can get frustrating if you are looking for examples. 3rd and last of all, i have not yet found a way to take a part of an image and rotate it. Only the whole image will rotate. Hard to get smooth flowing animation when you want to cut and paste. Other than that, AnimationCreator is a cartoonists dream!

by QalbiArts

I use AnimationCreator all the time. Can turn ideas into visions in minutes. Limitless potential. It would be cool to import sound files from itunes, and edit in the music portion; perhaps with a track of overdub.
Also the ability to copy/paste other animations into one file...or choose iterations...or import produced vids back into working project files. many are small loops. A little like Diptic's animation function...That said; it's still 5 star.
Thanks. Keep cookin'!

by Nathan Dunlap

This is a great animation app that works very nicely without any lag. The tools are simple and the UI is clean. It provides the fundamental tools needed to do 2D animation without any fancy ones that would clutter up the small screen on a smart phone. I highly recommend AnimationCreator for any animator that wants a way to animate on-the-fly as one might sketch in a portable sketchbook.

It has one irritating feature in that it nags you to write a review every time you open AnimationCreator even when you already have written a review.

by Spottedleaf15851

It's great, but I think they should add different brush types like lightning, water, etc. overall, it's amazing and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys animating. The full version isn't much different from the free, just some cooler supplies so I would say either version is good if your just starting in the world of animation. It was totally worth the $3 it cost to buy the full version and I hope everyone else can enjoy AnimationCreator as much as I do. Making a drawing or animation is so easy on AnimationCreator. If I could, I would rate AnimationCreator 1,000,000,000,000 stars!

by Plant_human

I love the paid version, was definitely worth it. I’ve created some very cool short animations. It’s easy to use and overall just fun to play around with. Two things I would improve is the undo button, easy to miss, you end up animating dots on the screen by accident, and color palette. Maybe this is just me, but i have no idea how to save colors, so if i want to animate a colored animation i have to wait until I’ve animated everything before coloring it in because my colors don’t save. That gets annoying. But other than that still super worth it.

by ArnPoe

I’m not an animator; I was just looking for a new creative outlet & decided to try AnimationCreator. AnimationCreator is one of the best-designed, intuitive and straightforward apps I’ve ever used. In just a few hours I was able to figure out layers, backdrop, and adding audio. In a month of usage, I’ve had no crashes or other issues.

It would be nice if AnimationCreator would allow background changes and allow import of audio files (I’m a musician with synth pop band Dyed Emotions, and I’ve been trying to create animations to go with some of my original music). I would even pay for additional layers, or the ability to import and animate a photo.

Otherwise, AnimationCreator is amazing!

by Lilasianswag

I’ve used AnimationCreator since 2012, and I must say, it’s the best freestyle original draw-to-animate application that exists today. It’s all up to YOU how well you utilize it.

The use of copy and paste is astounding. It has helped me repeat drawings that only happened once in perfect quality. I could just paste that perfectly drawn hand, or face, that couldn’t be recreated as well as the first time.

What I realize will make AnimationCreator perfect in its entirety is the ability to “mirror cropped sections.”

I realize I’m the kind of person who, because I’m left handed, can’t seem to draw characters facing left, only facing right.

The ability to “select and mirror” revolutionize Animation Creator. I’m in the process of creating my first Sonic the Hedgehog animation. I do hope you’ll put in a mirror tool for cropped selections soon, so that drawing hands, eyes, eyebrows, ears, feet, anything in pairs, is symmetrical and much easier to recreate!!!

AnimationCreator has been my life for years! Thank you for the hard work you put in to make AnimationCreator possible for everyone!!!