For those interested in art, animation or who have a colorful imagination, not to mention a lot of patience to be able to make each frame individually, they would likely find it easier to get the hang of. So far, my first impression tells me that for the average user, a group in which I’m included, it’s a fairly steep learning curve, plus you need to have some artistic talent and good ideas. Needless to say, this app takes some getting used to. Under Projects, you can view all of your animations that are in progress. Here you will also find the help for all the various functions. © NextPitĪt the bottom of the screen, there are options to go to the previous frame, add frames and you can also switch from foreground to middle ground and have an overview of what you’ve accomplished so far. The menu button on the top right corner, action overflow, allows you to create new slides and duplicate them. Another feature is that you can choose an already created background from your Google Drive folder. This way the animator or editor can make decisions on how to create or change an image based on the previous image in the sequence. Onion skin, just to clarify for all the non-animators, is a technique used in creating animated cartoons and editing movies to see several frames at once. Underneath, there is a controls ring with the play speed (frames per second), frames navigation, loop/play once option, onion skin and finally show/hide background. On the left, you will find the project manager button with all your stored projects, finished or in progress, and a counter with the number of total frames you have created so far which you can sift through by swiping the scroll button. Other than choosing your paint brush, size and opacity, there are all the colors on the color palette and the option to choose a background picture from Google Drive./ © NextPit You can also select a color from the palette by double tapping on the ‘paint pots’. To adjust these, you tap on the various settings and drag your finger up and down to increase or decrease the intensity. You can change the brush size and opacity. Using your own finger, you draw on each frame using the various painting tools and colors offered on the right side of your drawing board. I quickly came to the realization that creating any kind of good animation (and more than just stick men) would indeed take a long time, therefore a lot of patience is required. To wrap your brain around this app, you need to remember that animations are made of many still frames, each of which you have to create one at a time. Here it shows you what all the functions mean and do.Īnimation Desk Sketch & Draw gives you the tools to create an animation. I finally was able to locate the help section of the app in the action overflow (menu button) on the top right corner of the screen. I felt lost at the beginning, and many of the buttons in the app didn’t seem very intuitive at first. What I was missing straight off of the bat was some sort of welcome or tutorial screen to get me started. When I first opened up the app, I was brought to the main project portion where you start creating your animations.
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