Animation desk ultimate software#
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Finally, even though this most likely will be fixed soon, there is no optimization for the 11 inch iPad Pro, which I use to run this app. If there is, then it is near impossible to find. There is no ‘flip’ option to be found, which I think should be a standard.

Animation desk ultimate professional#

I use it near daily, however, the lines will never seem straight, as you would see in professional software. I have just recently gotten into animation, and drawing. Procreate is $10 and feels much more professional and polished.

$20 is a reasonable price for this software, but I could also argue for it being $10. It does what it claims to do, although not optimally. The other issues are just for quality-of-life, but this one is unacceptable. As far as I’m concerned this is the biggest issue as it completely ruins a large portion of the apps functionality.

Animation desk ultimate software#

THE MAJOR ISSUE: When rendering with hidden layers, the software will VERY OFTEN merge and show layers that I have hidden and that I do not want to show in the final render. No pinch zoom when using the cut/paste tool. If you switch layers, you can no longer undo/redo your last action. This one is more minor but it’s still an issue. The undo button does not remember actions between layer switches. Just move the prompt over the toolbar or perhaps in the bottom left/right corner of the screen. While it only lasts for about 3 seconds, imagine those accumulated waiting times over the course of 500 tool switches during a large project. Every time I switch tools (which is often) I have to wait for the prompt in the middle of the screen to disappear so I can see my frame in order to start working again. When using the Apple Pencil’s gesture to switch between erasure/tool, the prompt in the middle completely kills my workflow as it’s super annoying and in the way. Layers will sometimes merge and bring all other layers, hidden or not into the one I’m working on, ruining any layering I have prepped to iterate on rough animations. However, there are some pretty glaring issues, and while they are minor, they do really dampen the overall experience. The brushes are pretty decent and you can get away with making some pretty nice animation. The only way you can do it is if you zoom in 500% I tried to draw a line from top to the bottom, but it won’t let me with ANY brush.

I can’t flip it upside down, twist it, turn, etc.Īlso, you can’t color to the bottom. I zoom out to 100% and I can’t move the frame left or right so I’m basically stuck in one place to draw. Now here’s where the zooming out is pretty broken/stupid. But I can’t go on layer two because it will go underneath. Here’s the problem to that: When I want to shade with color, I can’t shade on layer one because I already have the line work on there so the color will go over the line work. So I have no choice but to use the bucket tool on layer 1. But, when I use the bucket tool on the layer 2 (the layer before layer 1 which is the layer my character is on), it treats it like a background. I want to color and shade with color on my character. Got a question? Contact us at or check out

Combine multiple animation sequences into an animatic storyboard.

Export video with different aspect of ratio.

Export PSD layers, PDF, and GIF (up to 640×480 px), PDF*.

Perfect with Apple Pencil 1,2, Wacom and Adonit styli.

Color palettes for developing and managing color schemes.

Create animations with a different aspect ratio, FPS, and duration.

Make animation over videos and pictures.

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