Animation Desk
Get a taste of traditional frame animations! Make your first animated video with video clips, photos, or pre-built animation templates. Animation Desk guides students through the basic animation process within an intuitive interface. These handy techniques are for all types of animations. Capture your animation ideas on the go with Animation Desk. The app supports different export formats. It's a powerful tool for creating rough animation, animatic sketches, and storyboards for professional animation projects. Animation Desk comes with paint tools, onion skinning for motion tracking, sound effect, layers, and frame rate settings. Here is a wide range of features that can save you a handful of time. Animation Desk works like a digital flipbook. You can start from the first frame or a keyframe. Use the brushes or selection tool to complete their work.
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Callipeg
Callipeg is a 2D hand-drawn animation application made for iPad and Apple Pencil (required). Create shots using the frame rate you need: 12, 24, 25, 30, and 60 frames per second. You will get a fully manageable timeline, within a simple and decluttered interface designed for gestures and Apple Pencil. Display your floating palette with two fingers and access easily copy, paste, clear and flip options. Drawing layer, where you can add sheets, import pictures to your sheets, set their timing, add in-betweens. Video layer, where you can import video clips, adjust their playing speed and break them into sheets (rasterize). Transformation layer, where you can create keyframes, nest your drawing layers and animate your drawings easily with our curve system.
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Adobe Photoshop
The world’s best imaging and graphic design software is at the core of just about every creative project, from photo editing and compositing to digital painting, animation, and graphic design. And now you can harness the power of Photoshop across desktop and iPad to create wherever inspiration strikes. Our professional photography tools make it easy to do everyday edits or total image transformations across desktop and iPad. Crop, remove objects, retouch, and combine photos. Play with color and effects. And reimagine the art of photography. Posters, packaging, banners, websites — all your design projects start with Photoshop. Combine photos and text to create entirely new images. Work with unlimited layers and masks. Photoshop is now available on the web. Adobe extends Photoshop to the web for sharing, reviewing, and light editing of Photoshop cloud documents (.psdc). Collaborators can open and view your work in the browser, provide feedback, and make basic edits without downloading.
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Affinity Designer
Optimized for the latest tech on Mac, Windows and iPad, Affinity Designer is setting the new industry standard in the world of design. Best in class for creating concept art, print projects, logos, icons, UI designs, mock-ups and more, it’s already the top choice of thousands of professional illustrators, web designers, game developers and other creatives who love its silky-smooth combination of vector and raster design tools. No bloat, no gimmicks, just all the tools you need, implemented how you always dreamed. Affinity Designer is a stripped back, pro-end workhorse that will always get your job done. Affinity Designer was created to thrive on the electric pace of the latest computing hardware. Live, responsive and incredibly fluid, it’s simply a joy to use.
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