What is Animation Desk?
Animation Desk is an app that allows users to create frame animations from scratch or on top of videos, images, and Photoshop layers. It offers a variety of drawing tools, including brushes, erasers, onion skinning, and layers. The app also provides helpful tools such as frame tags, rulers, and a frame viewer and timeline. Users can export their animations in various formats, including images, animatic storyboards, videos, and GIFs. The app offers a basic plan with free tools, as well as subscription options that provide additional features and cloud storage.
- Import Photoshop layers (PSD)
- Create animations over videos and pictures
- Customize aspect ratio, FPS, and duration of animations
- Brushes, erasers, onion skinning, selection tools, and layers
- Color palettes for managing color schemes
- Captioning feature
- Perfect with Apple Pencil 1,2, Wacom and Adonit styli
- Frame tags, rulers, frame viewer, timeline, zoom-in and zoom-out, and canvas rotation
- Export individual frames as images
- Combine multiple animations into an animatic storyboard
- Export videos with different aspect ratios
- Add music to animations
- Subscription options for additional features and cloud storage
- Basic plan with free tools available
- Available on iPad and iPhone.
Duration | Amount (USD) |
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Monthly Subscription | $6.00 |
**Pricing data is based on average subscription prices reported by Justuseapp.com users..
Dream big with Animation Desk. Draw frame animation from scratch, or create animations and animatic storyboards upon videos, images, Photoshop layers. Animation Desk supports multiple export formats. Create animation, unleash your creativity, publish videos on YouTube, Tiktok, and social media! AWARDS - Featured in Top100 iPad Entertainment apps in 86 App Stores - Featured by Apple on iTunes Home Page - Featured by Yahoo Tech - Featured by TechCrunch - Recommended by edshelf, EducationalAppStore.com, All abot apps in YOUR classroom, iPad Educators CREATE ANIMATION • Import Photoshop layers (PSD) • Make animation over videos and pictures • Create animations with different aspect of ratio, FPS, and duration DRAWING TOOLS • Brushes, customize brushes, and Erasers • Onion skin • Color-coded onion skinning* • Selection tools • Layers* • Color palettes for developing and managing color schemes • Caption* • Perfect with Apple Pencil 1,2, Wacom and Adonit styli HELPFUL TOOLS • Frame tags * • Rulers • Frame viewer and timeline • Zoom-in and zoom-out • Canvas rotation EXPORT • Export individual frame into image • Combine multiple animation into an animatic storyboard • Export videos • Export PSD layers, PDF, and GIF (up to 640x480 px), PDF* • Export video with different aspect of ratio • Add music to the animations * Some features are available with Creativity 365 or Animation Desk Pro subscription SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS The basic plan includes many free tools, but if you are looking for something more, here are the options, • Kdan Cloud 500GB Annual plan: billed annually at $9.99/ year Monthly plan: billed monthly at $2.99/ month • Animation Desk Pro with 500G Kdan Cloud storage Annual plan: billed annually at $29.99/year Quarterly plan: billed quarterly at $10.99/quarter Monthly plan: billed monthly at $4.99/ month Special Price for Students and Educators • Creativity 365 with 1 TB Kdan Cloud storage Annual plan: billed annually at $59.99/year after 7-day trial ends Quarterly plan: billed quarterly at $19.99/quarter after 3-day trial ends Monthly plan: billed monthly at $9.99/monthly after 3-day trial ends Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Subscriptions will be charged through your iTunes account at the confirmation of purchase. 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-hour 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. Terms of service: https://kdanmobile.com/en/terms_of_service Privacy Policy: https://kdanmobile.com/en/privacy_policy CAN WE GIVE A HAND? Got a question? Contact us at [email protected] or check out http://support.kdanmobile.com
By Seagull Squad
I have found many great animation apps, including FlipaClip, sticknodes, this one, and even more. After all that, Animation Desk is, and has always been-in my opinion-the best one out there, and the easiest to use. Thank you to the creators of this app. I might get Animation Desk ultimate one day. Though this is one of the best animation apps there is, I have a few suggestions; sometimes I want to loop one part of an animation, so I copy the frames, but each copy goes after the original frame. I would really like the copied frames to go to the end of the animation. This would make it much easier to do that function. Another thing that isn’t necessarily a drawback, but would be a nice addition would be a v-cam. One final suggestion would be to make all the animations arranged as thumbnails, and you could be able to scroll up and down, to find things more easily. Thank you for reading my suggestions, and I hope you consider adding them. All in all, this app is awesome, and I really recommend it. Sincerely, a really happy animator.
By Dooditz
I’m a professional artist that’s always wanted to get into animation, and I’d highly suggest this app to anyone looking to do any level of animating. It’s easily the best animation app I’ve found for iPad Pro. My only problems are superficial ones. Seems like I have to click back and forth to make the smallest changes. If you want to change layers, you have to click a couple menu buttons back, then click back over to the colors section, then click over to the brush section to adjust size, etc. If you’re used to a program like procreate, this will take a bit of adjusting, because the way it’s set up, everything is kinda all over the place. I look at this app like I’m trying to animate on a messy desk where I spend time trying to find my things - as opposed to an app like procreate where everything is just right there in front of you. Having said that, this app is so much fun. If you’re looking to scratch the itch of animating on your iPad, look no further. Thanks for such a cool app!
By Harelow17
Hey, I just wanted to say that I remember 2 years ago I was still a crappy animator, and a furry, that wasn’t good at animating until I got this app, it was a great thing! But as soon as I starting drifting away things changed, in a good and bad way... There are now multiple brush options which I do enjoy... but there are now things I find annoying (or always have.) the 500 zoom isn’t that good.. I wish we could rotate the frame around so if your doing a upside down picture or animation, you can turn it 180° degrees so you can draw it. Just a suggestion.... Now there’s only 2 frames (not including the background) that you can animate with. Maybe it’s just for the phone version but I found this annoying.. and so far those are my only complaints.. thank you and good day. P.S. Thanks for adding the paint bucket to the phone version!