Animation Desk

Animation Desk is a digital animation software developed by Kdan Mobile Software Ltd. According to the vendor, it is designed to provide a user-friendly platform for creating animations, GIFs, and storyboards. The software caters to a wide range of professions and industries, including professional animators, graphic designers, content creators, art and design students, and advertising and marketing agencies.

Key Features

Brush Variety: According to the vendor, Animation Desk offers over 46 different brushes, including pencil, pen, marker, and watercolor brushes, allowing users to create diverse animations with various textures and styles.

Layers and Background: Animation Desk supports multiple layers, including 8 sketch layers and 1 background layer, to help users work on different elements of their animation separately. The vendor says that users can easily add, delete, and rearrange layers for efficient organization.

Onion Skin and Color-Coded Onion Skin: The onion skin feature in Animation Desk provides users with a translucent overlay of previous frames, ensuring consistency and fluidity in animations, according to the vendor. The color-coded onion skin feature helps users differentiate between frames, enhancing the understanding of animation flow.

Export Options: Animation Desk offers various export options, including saving animations as GIF, PDF, or Photoshop files. According to the vendor, users can share their animations on social media platforms, embed them in websites, or continue working on them in professional editing software.

Ruler and Shapes: Animation Desk provides a ruler tool for drawing straight lines and precise shapes, according to the vendor. Different types of rulers are available to help users maintain symmetry and precision in their animations.

Sound Effects and Music: According to the vendor, users can enhance their animations by adding sound effects and music using Animation Desk. They can import audio files or record their own sounds directly within the app, synchronizing them with specific frames or actions.

Text to Speech (TTS) reader: Animation Desk includes a Text to Speech (TTS) reader feature, allowing users to convert text into speech for voiceovers or narration in their animations, according to the vendor.

Insert hyperlinks as your annotation: According to the vendor, users can insert hyperlinks as annotations in their animations, adding external references or resources to enhance the animation.

Add images as your annotation: Animation Desk allows users to add images as annotations to their animations, according to the vendor. This feature enables the inclusion of visual elements or reference images within the animation.

Make audio notes: According to the vendor, users can make audio notes within Animation Desk, recording voice memos or instructions to assist in the animation creation process.