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DESKTOP CLASS ANIMATION ON iPAD

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Produce professional frame-by-frame
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.
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


The Legend of BabaBongo by Selorm Dogoe (Instagram: @selormsketchbook)

Images created in Procreate
Characters rigged and animated in Animation Pro
Final editing in LumaFusion
 
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
  shoot background images using your iPad's camera
Add figures, images, mouths or text
Pose, scale, rotate, move, colour, tint, blur, distort, shear
  and apply highlights, accents, outlines/glows
  and motion-blur to your figures
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 movies at 60 frames per second from Retina devices. 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
Export HEVC and HEVC with alpha channel video
  - hardware support required (A10 chip or later)
Choose a frame rate between 1 and 60 fps and
  resolutions up to 2538x1080 (widescreen cinema)
  from 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:
FEATURE StickMotion Animation Animation Pro
Target audience (animation skills) Beginner - Intermediate Intermediate - Professional
Optimised for iPad Pro Device Resolutions
Apple Pencil support
Image Cropping Tool
IMAGE CREATOR
MOUTH CREATOR
Integrated Help 200 pages (approx.) 500 pages (approx.)
Projects
Create unlimited Projects *
Select different aspect ratios
Share/export/import/clean animation projects Share, export and import only
Figure Editor
Create figures of unlimited complexity
Add lines, circles, images and text
Add mouths Provided mouths only
Draw figure items
Static and flexible items
Bendable and stretchable items
Colour/tint individual items
Scale individual image/mouth/text items
Scale-X and/or scale-Y individual image/mouth/text items
Rotate individual image/mouth/text items
Flip individual image/mouth/text items
Adjust the relative position of the anchor point
Adjust pivot points of image/mouth/text items
Move handles of image/mouth/text items
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
Copy and paste items and/or branches
Change handle colours
Optionally view handles/bones
Optimise items/figures
Undo mistakes 50
Figure metrics Item angle & length Item angle, length and image sizes. Figure width, height and pixel count
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
Stylise 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
Use groups to transform multiple figures at once
Transfer properties between figures
Blend one figure with another
Animating (image/text/mouth items in figures)
Substitute items
Draw on image 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
Inverse Kinematics
Contraints
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
Output video formats: MOV MOV,MP4 and M4V
HEVC Output A10 chip or later required
HEVC (with alpha channel) Output A10 chip or later required
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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