Animation Workshop is made for true drawing enthusiasts. People who love to see their sketches come to life.
Whether you're working on a quick loop, an experimental short, or a full-fledged animation project, this app gives you the tools to bring your ideas to the screen with the charm of classic 2D, powered by modern features.
To get the best performance on mobile devices, we recommend working on one sequence at a time and exporting it when finished, that way, your device stays light and ready for your next idea.
This is a tool for creating social media content, storyboarding, anime and manga drawings, animatics, and exploring animation techniques. It features professional support elements such as the Draft layer for reference lines and Onion Skin.
If the device supports it, you can draw strokes with variable thicknesses based on pressure. For example, using a Note smartphone with a stylus or a drawing tablet compatible with the Android device to which it is connected.
The goal of Animation Workshop is to help animators quickly experiment with different techniques, expressions, or character designs that can later be refined in their final projects.
You can create fully animated 2D clips using Animation Workshop. For longer animations, we recommend exporting each scene separately and combining them later in a video editing app.
For the best experience, we suggest installing Animation Workshop on devices with good RAM, internal storage, and graphics processing power. Limited hardware can affect performance and user experience.
Depending on your drawing style, using your finger on the screen might feel imprecise—but that can be easily improved with a capacitive stylus or a digital drawing tablet. We've had great results with Wacom devices, though not every model has been tested on every phone or tablet, so we recommend trying it out before purchasing extra gear. Another great option is using a Galaxy Note or any device that includes an S Pen.
If your drawing device supports pressure sensitivity, Animation Workshop can adjust the thickness of your strokes based on how much pressure you apply.
The Main Features
● Horizontal and vertical drawings are allowed.
● Customizable drawing size up to 2160 x 2160 pixels
● Project manager with thumbnail view and “Save Copy” function
● Frame browser with layer operations
● Customizable 6-color palette
● Color picker tool: tap directly on your drawing to select any color (*)
● Two customizable drawing thickness presets
● 12 different drawing tool styles(*)
● Fill tool for coloring large areas(*)
● Pressure-sensitive stroke thickness for compatible tools
● Adjustable-size eraser
● Undo function to reverse recent actions
● Special Draft Layer for rough sketching
● Two active drawing layers and a background layer
● Adjustable opacity for each layer to improve visibility and control
● Background layer with 8 texture options, solid color, or image from gallery
● Onion Skinning feature to view previous frames as transparent overlays
● Frame cloning function
● Zoom and pan to explore your entire canvas
● Quick animation preview with speed control and loop option
● In-app user manual accessible from the Options Menu
● Device performance check available from the Options Menu
● Render animations as MP4 (*) video or image sequences (JPG or PNG)
● Exported files can be easily shared or sent from within the app
● Chromebook & Samsung DeX support
(*) The current version is completely free and fully functional.
Some advanced features will be available in a future professional version.
These features specific to the professional version are:
● Output rendering to MP4 video. (The current version renders to JPG and PNG.)
● 12 different drawing styles or tools, including fill. (The current version has two.)
● Pick Color to select the brush color from the frame.
NOTE:
The current version temporarily has all features enabled.