Description

Animate your dreams and bring them to life!

An extremely fast hand-drawn animation software using a tablet for thick and thin brush control and intuitive workflow.

Animators will love the simplicity and ease of use which lets them quickly sketch out animations and beginners can focus on improving their drawing and timing. Animation Sketchpad works on both Silicon M1 Macs and older Intel Macs seamlessly.

Color your line animations easily with colors automatically going below black lines.
Layer workflow means you can seamlessly switch between rough and finished layers.
Static layers for layout and background makes scene planning easy.


The UI is very simple with just three tools, a pen, eraser and fill color so that you can animate with speed.
Adding, inserting and duplicating frames is very easy with intuitive shortcuts and drag'n'drop functionality.

*Color fill automatically goes under black lines for fast coloring

*Layout and background layers for scene planning

*Simple, intuitive workflow for timing and file management

*MP4 and JPG import/export for easy rotoscopy and timing

*Onion skinning, auto-save and animated previews

*Bundled demo scenes and videos for learning

*Export and import animation scene files locally

*Non-linear background adjustment

*Get up and running in minutes

*Bundled animations for studying and learning

*Tested extensively with Wacom ,XpPen and Huion tablets

*Tablet recognition workflow to help users setup tablets easily

*Expert mode and scrub button for fast and interactive timing

Animation Sketchpad is developed by Appy Monkeys, an award winning app developer with over 10 million downloads
globally across all platforms and with an extensive suite of user friendly and power creativity apps.
Visit www.appymonkeys.com for more information.

What's New in Version 3.0

***MAJOR 3.0 UPDATE***

1>Added layers workflow , with rough animation, layout and background layers

2>Line and color layer for black lines and colors, Rough animation w/ red only , layout static w/ blue, Background layer w/ all colors
3>Import Mp4 movies, frames are created on layer where MP4 is imported enabling frame editing and retiming
4>Import PNG and JPG
5>Improved frame editing ability with drag and drop move, copy and delete w/ hotkeys
6>Added global undo's upto 50 operations
7>Playback range for playing selected frames
8>Improved scrub controls for easier operations
9>Onion skinning increased to 3 before and 3 after
10>Added Windowed mode and full-screen mode. User can toggle between both modes whilst in scene
11>Improved eyedropper tool
12>Optimized selection, copy and paste tools
13>UI is improved with desktop standard design and enhancements
14>Added new animation tutorials and library scenes for learning
15>Various bug fixes and memory enhancements
16>Background adjustment with color correction, blur and opacity controls
17>Added tablet support with keyboard shortcuts and help videos for UI