Best digital animation app?

July 27, 2021 6:11 PM

I want to be able to make art (cartoons, drawings, etc) using an iPad. What apps should I be looking for? What’s the best animation app for iPad? I would need to be able to export the art from the iPad to use elsewhere.
posted by jitterbug perfume to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

Not sure if you want something for animation or for drawing. For drawing, idk about “best” but as a hobbyist I can say there are many to choose from if you don’t want to go the Adobe route. Different apps are suitable for different purposes, e.g.:
Comic Draw for sketching/inking
Pixelmator for photo editing/composition
Procreate for painterly stuff

All of these can export in various formats.
posted by disentir at 7:01 PM on July 27, 2021

Far and away the best two hand-drawn animation apps for the iPad are Rough Animator and Callipeg. Procreate is the best painting app to start with, or Affinity Designer if you’d like vector graphics features.
posted by overeducated_alligator at 7:13 PM on July 27, 2021

Procreate is easy but it has very limited amount of frames to work with.
posted by Liquidwolf at 5:13 PM on July 28, 2021

Response by poster: I looked at a couple of these. What if I want to make just still drawings, not moving animations? Which app for that?
posted by jitterbug perfume at 7:50 PM on July 31, 2021