FrameCast - Animation Studio

The whole drawing tool isn’t the best out there but it is a great start to any beginner. It is definitely one of the BEST animating apps out there on mobile. Although other apps can size up with better drawing options, it’s animating feature is fantastic! It’s a lovely place to start if you ever wanted to start animating but.... it has a scary and nasty community. Although some are fine and wonderful to be around. The amount of toxicity is frightening. FrameCast doesn’t have a “decent” banning system, it’s based on its community and I see how difficult it can be. My suggestions is to ban them based on many ( as more than 4-7) DIFFERENT IP addresses bc people can easily make a crap ton accounts and just ban a user. Also be aware to any new comer that you are be WATCHED AT ALL TIME by the community. Mods are everywhere and ready to ban for the pettiest of things. Who are these mods and how do they do so well? It’s the community. ( of the children...) Anyone can apply and get accepted. There not very much requirements. Please keep in mind that this app is really just a bunch of children and young teens. That’s fine so long as you know how to behave around the obnoxious ones. My overall advice to anyone coming in is to enjoy what you create and try not respond to toxic people because the moderators will always take there side because the toxic person was there before you. ( basically everyone knows everyone so just keep your chill and smile. )

Over all in the drawing/animating aspects of the app its pretty awesome for beginners. If your interested in animation and want something that will give you a simple user interface made for phones, this one is pretty good. It does get glitchy so if you start getting more ambitious (especially in making more layers/frames) you should probably look into something else. But as a jumping off point into the world or animation it’s pretty great. If you’re looking for something better in drawing I’d recommend IbisPaint! As for the social media aspects of the app. It has a fairly large amount of people on the app, and as with any large social network, you will have toxic people and bad niches. There are a large amount of negative people and very many of them are very sad, anxious and some are even very depressed or suicidal. But the app is moderated and there as options to ban people from the app for posting/saying inappropriate things. (Like swearing, nudity, and or threats of violence/harm of any kind) And, if you stay away from negative people like that there are many very nice people willing to offer encouragement and compliments as well as constructive criticism to help you grow as an artist. It’s basic and easy to navigate. Though the app is slowing down and as some may say the community is “dying”, it’s a pretty good app and I would recommend it. But read the other reviews and make your own decision.

I have had this app for a while now, and I really enjoy it! The community is very kind and this is an overall great app for animators who want a head start. However, there are a lot of glitches. I apologize to waste your time, as I’m sure you’ve heard this type of review a lot, but I may as well speak. The glitches often times don’t strike and are simply mediocre when it comes to damaging a project. However, a lot of them are irritating. For instance, if I were to press the undo button one too many times, it will delete the whole first layer, resulting in my lineart to be completely erased in every frame. Speaking of lineart, if I were to erase it completely on one frame, it will show up in the next, and on the frame I erased it from. On the lighter side, this app is excellent, and I really enjoy making art and animations on here. I think the creators did a spectacular job on making this app, and it would be interesting to see any future updates. I have one more suggestion. Would it be in any way possible to be able to download audio instead of recording it? I think it would be a lot easier so that I would not have to wake up family members if I needed to record at night. Other than that, I overall am enjoying my time on this app, and do highly recommend it to anyone who wants to start animating. Thank you for anyone who took the time to read this.