Hello Toniko, thank you for mentioning Callipeg in your video! I can see that you are using a version which is at least 7 months old. Since that we released a new Studio, the entire app is now using the GPU, we added color layers, layers groups and an entire onion skin bar tool which incluses the out of pegs feature. If you ever try the newer version, please let us know if you have any feedback. It’s always a pleasure to watch your videos, you do a lot for the whole 2D animation community!
Toon Squid is by far the best animation app so far by a long shot. Rough animator has been out for a really long time however but toonSquid still takes the cake.
@@rissiuniverse2072 if you tap on the first layer on the animation assist/timeline (the thing that shows up on the bottom of your screen when you turn on animation assist) it will give you the option to set it as a background. If you go on the last layer on the animation assist/timeline, it will instead give you the option to set as foreground. These will stay on every other frame between them. Tapping on any other layer that's not the first or last will not give you the option to set as background or foreground, but it will give you how long you want a frame to hold (it's duration).
So glad you talked about Toonsquid!!! I have a limited understanding of animation but STILL was able to make a handrawn scene start to finish with audio all on Toonsquid. It’s just one guy who’s the dev from what I seen, lot of dedication and it’s a better experience than most iPad apps
i just got toonsquid about three days ago, and i absolutely fell in love with it! as much as rough animator is amazing, something just felt good about toonsquid. i hope ur video brings more people to toonsquid!
Both are very enjoyable animation apps. Toonsquid is probably the most professional on the AppStore right now. I wonder what Procreate Dreams will be compared to them.
Oh my god ty😭 animating was one of the main reason i wanted an IPad. I tried with Procreate but i find it to complicated and annoying. This vid really helps me out
You are right abt animation feeling like an afterthought in most apps and i agree for csp but the flaws you mentioned actually have really easy built in solutions. the thing that an app actually needs for me to consider as a good option is using the igpu/egpu to render playback fast as csp is single core cpu only for anything not 3d
Im a very beginning animator and I’ve been using toonsquid for a while now since I’m more comfortable with it instead of computer. Im still not the best but really wanted to make a larger project and hearing your opinion on how plausible that seems gives me hope and motivation for my workings! Still figuring out a lot of stuff but so far it’s really enjoyable for me.
I recently switched to ToonSquid for more finished-looking projects, too, even if RoughAnimator is possibly good for a lot of stages. By the way, in ToonSquid you can also flip between drawings by pressing little arrows on the left (you can set them to flip between drawings, not frames, in the menu), but I did find the scrubbing option more useful for me personally. One can tinker with sensitivity in the seetings, too!
I think he meant that if the body and the head are separate layers, and for a frame you only need to move the head then you have to duplicate the body, otherwise it will disapear for that frame, this doesn't happen in toonsquid (and I think it won't be an issue in dreams neither)
@@TonikoPantoja here’s also a cool tip for using Toonsquid, animate by ones or twos depending on your fps as a symbol. Then you can tap on the small diamond shape to activate keyframing, and underneath is a property called “time” choose a keyframe and tap the easing curves option to set the animation’s easing speed. I just tried it yesterday and i don’t need to mandatorily stretch each frame ever again.
I have flipaclip, it’s been fun as I’m not an animator and it was free then cheap to upgrade. But I can see how doing something larger than stick figures can become immensely more work in the app.
Procreate Dreams doesn’t look like it is designed for traditional 2d animating like TVPaint. It does have a drawing mode with a flipbook though. :\ I hope my first impression of Dreams is way off.
You didn't touch on keyframing in Toonsquid and all the types of curves you can use, as well as rigging with pivot points! It's a game changer compared to the rest.
Trust me, it's very very good to animate on the iPad. It's easier for me than a pc set up, don't have the place unfortunately. The thing missing is post production stuff, like advanced editing, lighting, sfx etc.
@@Vizible21 no, it's just more convenient than a pc setup for some people. And with toonsquid and procreate dreams only being one time payments, it's cheaper too
As an animator myself, Flipaclip is my only go-to because I am not paying for any computer programs and I don't even have any sort of tablet so I use my phone which is good enough to make an animation every week to post on youtube but it will only be a white background most of the time and is usually up to 15 seconds long.
I felt the same about Procreate's animation feature; it just isn't there. I'm an illustrator by trade but I took two years of animation in college before changing my major so I'm not entirely unfamiliar/new at it, and I was excited to do some personal projects with procreate when I saw they were adding the animation feature since I use it all the time for drawing and I really like it. I just couldn't get used to the limited use of layers, by the time I had enough frames for actual movement I'd run out of space because of the layer/size limit on the piece! The fact that I can't make a file be given more layers but I'm supposed to use the layers for animating feels really counterintuitive/limiting.
Nice video….im rooting for ToonSquid and the incoming dreams but…. on a side note, do you have background animation tutorials? like animating a street with lots of houses in front view or 3/4 view perspective on a loop that can be used for a running figure.?
Love CSP for animating, imo it is the most professional animating software available under a thousand dollars! Having a small device for shortcuts while on the ipad makes it perfect.
Sweet! Currently been using flipaclip on my ipad (being cheap as fuck for this 😅) but it's on the rough end on my opinion. 🤔 I also think of the ipad more of a sketch book too. A very expensive one. 😅
Thanks for your work! I'm a professional animator as well and am not impressed by a lot of the iPad apps. They feel like a plaything more then a tool. The rough animator looks cool. Nice that they have track and trace. A must for precision work. Keep up the good work!
You might not need alightmotion for compositing that much when dreams come true cause it will be coming with editing features too and a bit of colour grading I guess.
I think your experience with Callipeg might have sucked because it’s quite the resource hog. Although when it launched Benjamin used a pretty modest 10.5 iPad. Not sure if it was the pro or Air. On my 2018 iPad Pro it just kept bugging out once the project got a bit more intense. I ended up going for the 16gb RAM version of the M1 iPad Pro and the performance is night and day, I also went all out for the RAM as the layer limitation of procreate was doing my head in. Callipeg also has a busy community and they are quite interactive. The guys there doing a lot of good for the iPad animation scene. For brainstorming animation I’m still all about RoughAnimator.
I might have to revisit it sometime. It’s not one of those apps that I get excited animating on regardless of iPad specs, but I do have friends that talk highly about it.
Rough Animator are my to go animation app for almost 5 year. Doing storyboard and animatic for client and yeah work so well for android app. Sadly i procastinate a lot now
This is really helpful I was gonna get dreams I’ve been using fresco for roughs and exercises but idk I dislike porcrates interface even for illustration I only like it for coloring highlights and shadows and adding effects to stuff idk why honestly so I do a lot of my work in fresco. I was thinking of doing opentoonz but it looks like a lot for me to handle and I’m used to iPad apps rather then download software online I’ve always had issues with but now knowing about toonsquid I’m gonna give it a shoot it looks better interface wise.
man that’s really unfortunate, I would have love to know what you think of the EX version of clip studio paint for animation, from my perspective I’m getting a lot of fun animating on it but since i’m newbie to animation and I only have an Ipad, I don’t really know if I start with the right software
Guys, dreams in AN ENTIRE TEAM, Toonsquid is ONE GUY! Keiwan, and he is the nicest guy! He listens a lot to users and he already made several features i requested ♥️
Callipeg is glitchy as hell. Frames simply disappear, it saves wrong versions, pasting and copying frames works half the time. It's a mess. It tries to do many things but it is super unstable. I don't recommend it at all.
It won’t have vectors on launch, and there’s no telling if they’ll have a symbol system for easy lipsync as well. I’m hoping for at least the later. I’m really excited for procreate dreams, but from what I can tell, it won’t have every feature that some other apps have at least on launch
Tbh you put anything an apple logo and ifans would go batshit about it. When in reality those things have existed outside of their "ecosystem" for like 10 years already. If Precreate Dreams turnout good it's not gonna replace a proper workstation where you don't need to work like a shrimp 8 hours a day. Sure you can do it on 1 project but do you really think it's even healthy for your back? Plus nothings going to beat a large screen when doing a huge project. That's like saying you want to use your water color brush to do a graffiti.
The best thing about iPad is that it’s relaxing as you can work anywhere, be it your couch, coffee table or when you go out for fun…..so I get it, that having a studio-like set with your big screen is unbeatable but your idea of “working like a shrimp 8 hours a day” will not cut it with iPad. That point is irrelevant and I don’t quite agree.
