Animation Pro 4+
Stephen Keen
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- £9.99
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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
- Use either forward or inverse kinematics with constraints
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
What’s New
Version 2.5
A huge thank you to everyone who has supported Animation Pro over the last 7+ years! Animation Pro version 2.5 now adds the following features:
- Figures now support the use of forward or inverse kinematics (or a mixture of both)
- Constraints may now be applied to the items within figures e.g. to prevent a character's limbs from being moved into unnatural positions
* For more information, please check out the 'Kinematics' tutorial on the hotjamdonut.com.au website
- One figure may now be blended with another to produce some really cool effects
* For more information, please check out the 'Figure Blending' tutorial on the hotjamdonut.com.au website
- By default, Animation Pro applies the shortest path when moving a figure's items through tweens (or during key operations). Version 2.5 now allows the direction of movement to be specified.
- It is now possible to drag and drop images from other (supporting) Apps onto the main animation screen or Animation Pro's figure editor
- And, of course, general bug fixes
Ratings and Reviews
Amazing for aspiring animators
I found this app to be absolutely brilliant. It may not be perfect, but considering the price, this is an incredibly powerful and well designed piece of software for anybody who wants to get into animation. If you are a professional, this may not be the right app for you, but for an iPad app it is excellent.
The feature that allows you to hand draw animation within the app isn’t great but I just use Procreate to design my characters anyway. That feature is just an added bonus. I feel a lot of people have unfair complaints about this app, especially as it was originally made as stick figure and cutout style animation. If you want to use the app mainly for traditional animation, then I would say look elsewhere as there are plenty of other apps for that.
As for any iPad app, especially affordable ones, you will have some limitations but for what you get for this price is amazing. Anybody using it just needs to understand that this is not for a professional animator, but aspirating animators who are starting out or just want to do basic animation.
You can still make something reasonably ‘professional’ depending on how creative you are with the app. You just need to be patient with it and learn how it works.
There is a mini tutorial for almost every feature in this app, which just makes it even better.
An AMAZING app!
This animation app single handedly saved my animated project! I was looking for an app that supported figures and rigging, however everywhere I looked was either much too expensive, or much too complicated. However when I discovered this gem of an app I was SO happy! It was everything I had ever needed in one app! And the amount of customisation for figures is quite good! Of course there are a few bits and bobs that could use a little improvement. For example while I was animating and left the app I re-entered the app to see that my camera had completely flipped to portrait when it was originally landscape and sadly, couldn't be reversed! Overall, LOVELY app! Would recommend to people who want to try rigging and animating figures!
Developer Response ,
Thank you for the great review, I really appreciate it. With regard to the camera, did you try adjusting its orientation via the ‘Options’ menu on the animation screen? Animation Pro will retain the camera orientation even if your iPad is inverted; otherwise, it would be impossible to take upside-down pictures :)
A program not an app
Here are my thoughts for anyone wishing to purchase AnimationPro. Firstly I bought the program for its abilities of lip syncing. Then went on to learn the other areas. Learning takes time and like most things in life. More efforts more rewards, hence I would refer to program and not app. As to the depths of how far you can go with AnimationPro is quite astonishing. AnimationPro comes in 3 main areas. 1. You can draw characters 2. Assemble characters / rigs. 3. Time line where you animate. - export functions and import functions are well thought out. Oh I even throw in green screen in exporting so AnimationPro becomes very useful when used with other film editing apps. Rob
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Information
- Provider
- Stephen Keen
- Size
- 244.3 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Stephen Keen, Hot Jam Donut Productions
- Price
- £9.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.