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RoughAnimator - animation app Screenshots

iPad

iPhone

About RoughAnimator - animation app

A fully featured hand drawn animation application for iPad. Made by an animator, for animators. Powerful enough for professionals, simple enough for beginners. Everything you need to create traditional hand drawn frame-by-frame animation, anywhere you go!

Features:
- Timeline with unlimited layers and easily adjustable exposure length of individual drawings, for pose-to-pose or straight-ahead animating
- Onion skinning
- Preview playback
- Scrub along timeline
- Import audio for lip syncing
- Import video for rotoscoping animation
- Custom brushes
- Supports Apple Pencil, Logitech Crayon, Adonit & Wacom Bluetooth styluses
- Control framerate and resolution
- Export animation to Quicktime video, GIF, or image sequence
- RoughAnimator projects can be imported to Adobe Flash/Animate, After Effects, and Toon Boom Harmony
- Also available on desktop

See a short film animated with RoughAnimator:
https://youtu.be/vaHuJNNPoMM

What's New in the Latest Version 3.21

Last updated on Mar 24, 2024

Old Versions

- Bug fixes

Version History

3.21

Mar 24, 2024

- Bug fixes

3.20

Mar 19, 2024

- Bug fixes

3.19

Jan 15, 2024

- Bug fix (hopefully): occasional random loss of work when hiding the app. Not sure if I actually fixed it, please report if it happens again
- Bug fix: redo deleting a selection didn't work

3.17

Jan 1, 2024

- Bug fix: couldn't delete a selection in "edit multiple" mode
- Bug fix: dragging multiple selected drawings glitchy sometimes

3.16

Nov 30, 2023

- Can move multiple selected drawings across the timeline together
- Option to feather lasso selection
- Dropdowns with choices for standard framerates & resolutions when creating a project
- Prevents screen turning off while playing video

3.15

Oct 23, 2023

- Transform onion skin (aka shift and trace)
- Faster exporting
- Improved GIF quality
- Onion skin works in "edit multiple" mode
- Bug fixes

3.14

Sep 28, 2023

- UI tweaks, bug fixes
- Moved playback range sliders to timeline panel

3.11

Jun 15, 2023

- Bug fixes

3.10

Jun 1, 2023

- Redesigned icon
- Can drag and drop project folders from Files app to import
- Bug fixes

3.09

Apr 25, 2023

- Layer name textboxes expand to show longer layer names
- Bug fix: drawing with Pencil was laggier when project had more layers/drawings

3.08

Apr 18, 2023

3.08
- Bug fix: fill tool crashing in version 3.07

3.07
- More slots to save colors
- Can input hex codes for colors
- Crop/resize works faster
- Bug fix: changing duration of multiple drawings together shifted camera keyframes
- Bug fix: some glitches/crashes when using gestures to undo/redo
- Dropped support for iOS 10 and earlier

3.07

Apr 16, 2023

- More slots to save colors
- Can input hex codes for colors
- Crop/resize works faster
- Bug fix: changing duration of multiple drawings together shifted camera keyframes
- Bug fix: some glitches/crashes when using gestures to undo/redo
- Dropped support for iOS 10 and earlier

3.05

Mar 6, 2023

- Fill tool now has the option to close gaps

3.04

Nov 10, 2022

- Bug fix: volume buttons glitching in iOS 16
- Bug fix: frame flip wheel glitching
- Bug fix: back/forward cycles displaying wrongly sometimes
- Faster importing video

3.03

Oct 25, 2022

- Bug fix: copy/paste problems in iOS 16
- Bug fix: Quicktime export problems with fractional framerates
- Bug fix: Y translate number was inverted when moving a selection

3.01

Sep 27, 2022

3.01
- Bug fix: crashing in older iOS versions

3.0
- Dark UI redesign!
- Drag to resize timeline panel height
- Undo transform without losing selection
- Supports drag & drop to import files
- Zoom percentage is pixel accurate
- Bug fix: crashed when quickly pressing play button repeatedly

3.0

Sep 22, 2022

- Dark UI redesign!
- Drag to resize timeline panel height
- Undo transform without losing selection
- Supports drag & drop to import files
- Zoom percentage is pixel accurate
- Bug fix: crashed when quickly pressing play button repeatedly

2.16

Jun 21, 2022

- Bug fix: the previous update broke Quicktime export on older versions of iOS

2.15

Jun 10, 2022

- Support for exporting HEVC and ProRes (on compatible devices)

2.14

Apr 28, 2022

- Import layers from other projects
- Progress bar when applying changes to multiple drawings
- Bug fix: failed to export video when project was over 2960x2960 and contained audio

2.11

Jan 13, 2022

- Previews render faster, and it buffers to start playing while still rendering
- Bug fix: audio failed to play sometimes
- Bug fix: fill tool was inaccurate because it sampled based on the low res preview
- Bug fix: crash if playback range went past the end of the timeline
- Bug fix: memory leaks causing some random crashes

2.10

Dec 19, 2021

2.10
- Bug fix: failure to import some audio files

2.09
- Multiple audio layers
- Use audio from imported video files
- Bug fixes

2.09

Dec 14, 2021

- Multiple audio layers
- Use audio from imported video files
- Bug fixes

2.08

Oct 10, 2021

- Separate controls for brush Opacity and Flow
- Bug fix: import images crashed on older iOS versions
- Bug fix: cycle offsets displayed wrong when project had more than 20 layers
- Bug fix: was allowing . at beginning of project filenames which would make them invisible

2.07

Jul 20, 2021

- Organize project files in folders
- Remembers last active layer/frame in project when reopened
- Number sliders should be a little easier to slide now
- Bug fix: eraser never erased all the way to fully transparent

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