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Wildyorkshire
Wildyorkshire
Inspiring
February 26, 2020
Answered

Animate on an iPad

  • February 26, 2020
  • 9 replies
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I would find an iPad version of Animate useful.

I'm drawing on my iPad using Fresco, then exporting the PSD to Animate on my iMac for the animation.
I can onion-skin my drawing in Fresco, to get an idea of the movement but is there a way to get an instant replay of my animation as I go?

I'm using a simple program called FlippaClip which does just that, but I'd prefer to be working in an Adobe program, so that it links with Creative Cloud and is fully compatible with Animate and Premiere Pro.

    Correct answer ClayUUID

    The Adobe Animate team is drowning in bugs and optimization issues for the current version of Animate, and you're asking for an entirely new product? I can't imagine where you think the engineering resources for that would come from. Especially for something of such marginal utility.

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    james38130376n845
    New Participant
    June 19, 2024

    Use the timeline feature to create frames. Enable onion skinning to view multiple frames at once. Play the animation directly in Fresco to see movement in real time. It integrates seamlessly with Creative Cloud, allowing you to seamlessly upload to Animate and Premiere Pro on your iMac.

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    Nick Gioia
    Brainiac
    May 5, 2023

    I too would like to see it on the iPad but Adobe Fresco can do a lot of cool animation stuff and slowly they keep adding more animation features. Pretty cool stuff. Also check out Toonsquid. Probably the closes animation app you can get on the iPad that is really close to animate. https://toonsquid.com/

      nmecodes
      nmecodes
      New Participant
      December 9, 2022

      Adobe has dropped the ball hard here.

      kglad
      kglad
      Adobe Expert
      December 9, 2022

      @nmecodes 

       

      what are you talking about?

      Wildyorkshire
      WildyorkshireAuthor
      Inspiring
      November 2, 2021

      Great to see a timeline on the latest version of Fresco, thanks for that Adobe.

      I like that the timeline is in the Fresco style, so that I can just go ahead and use it in a similar way to all the other tools.

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      defaultzxov4q01w9oh
      New Participant
      April 27, 2023

      You might to be able to use sidecar on Mac but I'm not sure.

      Wildyorkshire
      WildyorkshireAuthor
      Inspiring
      January 30, 2021

      One way to draw in Animate using an iPad Pro is to use Sidecar, which transfers your iMac screen to the iPad.

      I've done a brief experiment by opening a document in Animate on my Mac, then transfering it to my iPad and drawing with my Apple Pencil. It works but, so far, I'm finding there's a bit of a lag between drawing and the line appearing, so it's not the smooth drawing experience that I'm used to with Fresco.

        samuelm50986257
        samuelm50986257
        New Participant
        January 28, 2021

        I think saying "The Adobe Animate team is drowning in bugs and optimization issues" while might be real, won't help keep jobs for Adobe teams for a quickly growing world where frame by frame is trending and iPad tools are starting to fill in the gap. 

          Wildyorkshire
          WildyorkshireAuthor
          Inspiring
          February 28, 2020

          As a work-around, I've opted for Clip Studio Paint EX (the version that includes an animation option) on my iPad Pro, which features a timeline. I can save my artwork as a PSD and animations as MP4s, so I'm hoping that will prove compatible with Photoshop, Animate and Character Animator.
          But I look foward to a Creative Cloud drawing app with a timeline (even if ClayUUID considers this a 'marginal utility'!)

            Wildyorkshire
            WildyorkshireAuthor
            Inspiring
            February 26, 2020

            Thanks for the reality check Clay 🙂
            It would only be a case of adding a timeline to Fresco . . .

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              ClayUUIDCorrect answer
              Brainiac
              February 26, 2020

              The Adobe Animate team is drowning in bugs and optimization issues for the current version of Animate, and you're asking for an entirely new product? I can't imagine where you think the engineering resources for that would come from. Especially for something of such marginal utility.

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                PizzaVacuum
                New Participant
                July 28, 2020

                This is more of a weak argument than a "reality check". Adobe absolutely has the power to make an Animate ios app a reality. It's illogical to suggest otherwise. Why do you have excuses for Adobe? I sincerely don't understand why anyone professional or otherwise would give examples like bugs or optimization issues as excuses. You may not own or use an iPad Pro but those of us who do would really benefit from the ability to work on our projects on our iPad. I'm 100% certain that we will see an Animate App sooner than later, your comment just blew me away. Excelsior. 

                  n. tilcheff
                  n. tilcheff
                  Brainiac
                  July 28, 2020

                  Loving your iPad is one thing.

                  Dev reality - another.

                  Your optimism is based on just wishful thinking.

                  The traceable history of Animate in the last 6-7 years plots a very clear graph.

                  They release hotfixes of hotfixes full of bugs and regressions showing lack of any decent QA.

                  One has to be completely delusional to believe that such a project is well-funded, well-staffed and well-maintained, with bright prospects for the future.

                   

                  Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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