RoughAnimator - animation app

WeirdHat

About this app

A fully featured hand drawn animation application for Android. 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 Samsung S-Pen and other pressure sensitive devices
- 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

Ratings and reviews

I give it 5 stars because it is an animators' app. (But it also has the best Android brush engine I've seen.) The fact that it has glitches after updates and a clunky interface do not override my love for how it feels to use this app. It feels better than the more stable mainstream painting apps that tack on onion skinning. This app is simple, fast, and fit to purpose.

Currently there's a strange glitch? Essentially, the entirety of a frame becomes invisible. Or just completely deletes. It's hard to explain, but I'll be working on one frame, and switch to next, only to see it completely gone. And even when I press undo to see what caused it, it's shown taking pieces and strokes from...nothing. It's as though it never existed, and I was editing nothing before. It's very weird, and I hope it gets fixed soon. It's really starting to cause me some problems.

Typically, this is an awesome app, but it breaks my Bigme Inknote tablet. When I open it, the screen flashes indefinitely and renders everything else—including Android gestures—useless until I reboot the device or "force clear memory". It is Android 11 and fully updated. But I'm thinking it's a problem with that specific device. So, for those with working Android, definitely recommend, this is awesome!

What’s new

3.23
- Color picker is now a panel that can stay open on the side instead of a popup window

3.25
- Bug fix: 3.23 crashed a lot