ToonSquid

Pretty nice love the tween, unlike procreate which is a app for art that just so happens to have animation, this focuses on animation, if your a beginner or looking to try animation, I recommend FlipaClip, super simple and easy to learn, if your looking for stunning illustrations that can have a bit of animation, or to make beautiful animation that focuses on looks, go for procreate, there’s a sort of scale that comes to most software, the more advanced it is, the harder to do simple things but easier to do harder things, in this case toon squid isn’t for beginners in animation or for people who want to try it, but it makes animation a ton more efficient and easier for people who know what there doing, if you were using procreate or flipa clip to produce fast and relatively simple stuff, although it seems like FlipaClip will be the best for making lots of simple animations, it isn’t instead toon squid is the best, it makes animating simple lip sync SUPER EASY with its library and the fact you can save and reload stuff like mouths, and also making animations with simple movements very easy with its easy to use and learn tween, toon squid has the perfect middle ground between simple and advanced, and because its built for the ground up for animation by animators, it is super efficient, and offers extra

I think so far as I’ve used it it’s great! Very versatile tools, many things to choose from, and a variety of brushes! One thing I can’t figure out is how to group layers, sometimes I do it on accident, and when I actually want to group a layer it doesn’t even when I put the layer right under. Also, if there was more of an indicate it was in that group that’d be great! Like an arrow, or indentation on the side? Another problem I have is whenever I make a new layer, or switch to the vector tool the color automatically turns white, which often makes me confused as I would wonder if my apple pencil is broken! I’m really mixed on your app, I personally find it harder to grasp than alight motion (strange isn’t it?) even if it seems light years easier! I think it’s a great app no doubt, much better than alight motion (since toonsquid is only a one time purchase with tons of stuff!!) but it doesn’t seem to be made for beginners. Yes, the more I use it the more I’ll probably get used to it but it’ll be very frustrating and confusing for beginners at the start! Also a suggestion, please make it so that you can also import stuff straight from your camera roll and not just your files!! For some reason I can’t add any audio clips from my files, it just won’t let me. So I’m forced to just add a video and lower the opacity TT… I still think it’s better than procreate dreams, flipaclip, and alight motion though! (In the animating aspect) great app, definitely deserves some more attention!

Hello ToonSquid team! I am so flabbergasted on how much this has helped me in animation! You guys have been putting in a lot of effort and I just love everything about it! With the key frames, symbols and easy animations for beginners, this app is just one of the best animation apps out there! But I’d also like to give out some recommendations! (I completely understand if it’s not compatible or supposed to be a function in the app). But I’d maybe think that when editing, there should be an option called “Skewer” it is basically like using the “Rasterize” tool but it can be in keyframes instead of frame-by-frame Animation. It can be used just like a distortion tool but the only change about it can be from a Rasterize tool to an actual Keyframe to allow it to skew / shear the animation with the symbols without being blurry, because in most cases for apps such as FlipaClip, it turns out super blurry each time animators skew / shear the frame every time, and I think it would be such a great improvement to ToonsSquid if they added that feature like Adobe Animate! Again, I completely understand if it’s not compatible or doesn’t fit in to what the app is intended to do or have. So that is why I’d think there should be a “Skew / Shear” feature for keyframes & symbols so that it can be way easier for people now! Reach out to this account if you can! Thank you so much! Keep up the amazing work, ToonSquid Team!