Animation Pro takes iPad
frame-by-frame animation
to the next level.
Designed for intermediate
to professional level animators,
Animation Pro contains a vast
array of powerful tools to
produce truly amazing results.
CREATE PROFESSIONAL QUALITY:
Cut-out-style animations
Stop-motion animations
Stick figure animations
3D (anaglyph or side-by-side) animations
Image sequences with transparency
Created using Animation Pro 1.0
Animation Pro 1.6 introduces motion-blur
Jungle Fever by Selorm (Instagram: @selormsketchbook)
The Image Creator
Animation Pro includes an integrated "Image Creator" containing a comprehensive selection of drawing and image editing tools. Use it to create and/or edit the items in your figures.
FEATURES
Use touch or an Apple Pencil
Work across multiple layers:
Re-order, merge, hide, delete or
adjust the opacity of layers
Use a variety of user configurable tools:
- Brush, Fill, Eraser, Brighten, Darken, Tint
- Shapes, Images, Distort and Blur Effects
- Cut/Copy/Paste
Work with solid colours or gradients (linear or radial)
Pick colours from the active drawing layer
Undo your mistakes (20 levels of undo per layer)
Zoom in for precise editing
Export images with transparency
Manage your image project assets:
- Categorise, move, delete, duplicate and share projects
Adjust the layout for left-handed vs. right-handed usage
The Mouth Creator
Also included is an integrated "Mouth Creator" for building your very own mouths for use with Animation Pro's automatic lip-synching feature.
FEATURES
Use touch or an Apple Pencil
Work across multiple layers:
- Re-order, merge, hide, delete or
adjust the opacity of layers
Use a variety of user configurable tools:
- Brush, Fill, Eraser, Brighten, Darken, Tint
- Shapes, Images, Distort and Blur Effects
- Cut/Copy/Paste
Work with solid colours or gradients (linear or radial)
Pick colours from the active drawing layer
Undo your mistakes (20 levels of undo per layer)
Zoom in for precise editing
Drag and drop mouths to create copies or onion-skins
Quickly test your mouths from within the "Mouth Creator"
Manage your mouth project assets:
- Categorise, move, delete, duplicate and share projects
Adjust the layout for left-handed vs. right-handed usage
The Figure Editor
Choose from a large selection of figures included with Animation Pro or create your own. Using the integrated figure editor you can create everything from simple stick figures right through to complex character rigs using your own images.
FEATURES
Create figures of unlimited complexity #
Make the items in your figures pivot, stretch and/or bend
Change the individual colours of items in your figures
Add text, images or mouths (for automatic lip-synching)
Adjust the text, images & mouths in your figures:
- Rotate, scale (X and/or Y), flip, move, tint and bend
Choose from a selection of included images or
use your own images in your figures
Create figure substitutes
Adjust the order of the layers in your figures
Load, save, categorise and share figures
Import figures from Pivot (version 2)
Zoom in on figures for precise editing
Quickly test your figures from within the editor
The Animator
Create professional high-definition stick figure, cut-out-style or stop-motion animations. In Animation Pro you can even combine all 3 to produce some really amazing results. Animation Pro includes a host of professional features that you'd normally only find in top-end animation packages, such as tweening, automatic lip-synching, cloning (e.g. for automated reflections and shadows) and camera depth-of-field.
FEATURES
Create animations of unlimited length and complexity #
Add, delete and copy frames
Choose background images from your iPad's library or
Use clones to create shadows, reflections or an army of
figures that animate automatically
Substitute entire figures whilst animating
Substitute the mouths, text and images within figures
whilst animating
Adjust the images within figures as you animate:
- Rotate, scale (X and/or Y), flip, move, tint and bend
Edit the images within figures as you animate
Zoom in for precise editing
Zoom, pan and rotate a virtual camera to set up scenes
Apply depth-of-field to automatically blur foreground
and/or background items
Copy and paste figures, backgrounds, frames and camera settings
Add audio to your animations:
- Choose from a huge selection of included sound effects
- Record your own audio
- Import audio from your iPad's music library
- Adjust the volume, repeat count and audio duration
- Fade frame-based audio in and/or out
- Automatically pan figure-based audio
Record speech and have mouths animate for you!
Use onion-skins to see the differences between frames:
- See the previous and/or the next frame
- Move the onion-skins above or below your figures
Take full control over tweening:
- Precisely control which properties are tweened
- Create "user-tweens"
See an instant preview of your animations and
see previews whilst scrubbing
Import video as a series of background images
Selectively turn off the live previews of effects to speed up the animation process
The Stop-Motion Editor
Animation Pro includes an integrated stop-motion editor.
Combine stick figure or cut-out-style animation with stop-motion animation
Use your iPad's camera to shoot stop-motion frames
Use onion-skins to see the differences between frames
See an instant preview of your animations
Exporting
Animation Pro can produce full high definition (1920x1080) movies at 60 frames per second from Retina devices (non-Retina devices can produce resolutions up to 1024x576). Animations can also be exported in 3D anaglyph or side-by-side formats. It's even possible to export animations as image sequences with or without transparency.
FEATURES
Export video or images sequences
- images can be saved with/without transparency
- Images can be automatically cropped
Choose a frame rate between 1 and 60 fps and
resolutions up to 1920x1080 from Retina devices
or 1024x576 from non-Retina devices
Add tweens for super smooth results
Select a range of frames to export
Select which effects to export
Export in anaglyph (red/blue) or
side-by-side 3D formats
StickMotion Comparison
The following table lists the differences between StickMotion Animation and Animation Pro:
Change the opacity of individual image/mouth/text items
Bend individual image/mouth/text items
Create figure substitutes
View figure onion-skins
Use image onion-skins
Change handle colours
Undo mistakes
20
Figure metrics
item angle & length
item angle & length, figure width and height
Included figures
36
55
Animating
Set background images
Convert video into background images
Integrated stop-motion camera
View previous and/or next frames as onion-skins
Set the opacity of onion-skins
Move onion-skins below or above the figures
Display scrubbing previews
Display times
Create user tweens
Rollback frame changes
Rollback figure changes
Import frames from one project into another
Import figure sequences from one project into another
Bookmark frames for quick navigation
Animating (figures)
Add unlimited figures *
Add images as figures
Select the placement of handles for images
Add mouths as figures
Provided mouths only
Add text as figures
Select the placement of handles for text
Move figures
Scale figures
Rotate figures
Flip figures
Set the z-order of figures
Tint figures
Set the tint strength
Set the opacity of figures
Blur figures
Distort figures
Independently X and/or Y scale figures
Shear figures (X and/or Y)
Highlight figures
Apply accents to figures
Apply outlines or glows to figures
Add motion-blur to figures
Clone figures
Create shadows (shadow wizard)
Control figure-level tweening from frame to frame
Pivot the items in figures
Bend the items in figures (excluding circles)
Stretch the items in figures (excluding circles)
Figure inspector
Name Figures
Lock Figures
Key Framing
Animating (image/text/mouth items in figures)
Substitute items
Override mouths with images
Clear (hide) items
Move items
Rotate items
Flip items
Scale items
Independently X and/or Y scale items
Set the opacity of individual items
Tint individual items
Bend items
Control item-level tweening from frame to frame
Turn highlighting on/off for individual items
Edit items
Change item z-orders
Key Framing
Animating (line and circle items in figures)
Set the opacity of individual items
Tint individual items
Adjust the line width
Change item z-orders
Key Framing
Virtual Camera
Pan
Zoom
Precise zoom control
Rotate
Set the depth of field
Control tweening from frame to frame
Key Framing
Key Framing - ease in/out control
Audio
Record audio
Access audio in music library
Lip-synch audio
Provided mouths only
Add audio to frames
Add audio to figures
Repeat audio
Adjust volume
Set playback end frame
Fade-in and fade-out (frame audio only)
Positional audio (figure audio only)
View audio waveform on filmstrip/time-line
Included sound effects
170
230
Importing ('Open in')
Import Pivot (version 2) stick figures
Import StickMotion Animation figures
Import Animation Pro figures
Access camera roll/photo library
Import audio files
Access music library
Import animation projects
Import image projects
Import mouth projects
Import mouths
Exporting/Sharing (AirDrop, Mail)
Export/share figures
Export/share animation projects
Export/share image projects
Export/share mouth projects
Export/share mouths
Export/share frames as images
Export/share frames as images with transparency
Output
Output full HD (1920x1080) videos
Retina devices only
Retina devices only
Output videos up to 60fps
Supported video formats:
MOV
MOV,MP4 and M4V
Output anaglyph or side-by-side 3D videos
Set the 3D depth
Set the number of tweens
Select a range of frames
Output as images to the photo library
Output as images with transparency to the photo library
Automatically trim images with transparency
#
Figure and animation complexity will be constrained by the amount of memory and storage space.
*
The total number will be constrained by the amount of memory and/or storage space.
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