Cel Animator vs Light Strokes Usage & Stats
A great iPad app for animating on the go - whether you’re just starting out or an experienced pro. There are no upgrade fees or subscription costs.
All the features you’d want are included (onion skinning, rotoscoping), plus looping, transformable sub-clips - small bits of animation that you can keyframe in the main timeline.
There’s also large image import for that background you’ve made in some other well known art program to use for panning shots or plain old static shots.
Have you drawn a complex bounded shape and want to fill it? Use inverse fill with the paint bucket tool.
Importing and sharing projects is easy using the .celanim file format.
Features:
Onion skinning
Video import for rotoscoping
Export as png sequence, gif, or mp4
Audio import
Record audio voiceover in the app, no third party app required.
Sub clips for creating looping animations for your scene.
Inverse fill for filling detailed shapes with color.
Easy timeline frame spanning - drag the lower right corner to make a frame span multiple frames.
Easy timeline manipulation - drag the left half of a frame to reposition it on the timeline.
Tapered line tool.
Lasso and transform tools for making simple movements.
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- Apple App Store
- Paid
- Graphics & Design
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This is the only app that lets you paint with whatever your iPad’s video camera sees. Create artwork instantly by aiming it at people, pets, flowers dancing in the wind, whatever. With Light Strokes, the world is your paintbrush!
FEATURES & BENEFITS:
• Adjust the camera settings (exposure, zoom, etc.) to paint with just what you want
• Choose colors and set transparency, so that paint builds up at the speed you’d like
• Blend colors along your “brush”, or use its edges to add texture, or do both at once
• Turn on dissolve, so that you can keep on painting without ever filling the screen
• Turn on mirroring to give symmetry to everything you paint
• Swipe right to pause painting while you line up your next shot
• Save your pictures or share them directly from the app
EXTRA FEATURES available with in-app purchase or free trial:
• Save combinations of colors and effects for quick and easy retrieval later
• Automatically make small random color adjustments, to add variety
• Import photos or other images to paint on
• Undo painted strokes made in error, or redo them
DEMO:
• See a demonstration of the app (with and without special hardware for more natural painting) at https://youtu.be/S-s2kmsSa9w
SUPPORT:
• See the user guide at https://lightstrokes.com/Light Strokes for iPad User Guide v3.pdf
• Send email to help@lightstrokes.com
- Apple App Store
- Free
- Graphics & Design
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Cel Animator VS. 
Light StrokesJanuary 6, 2025