Animation and Video on the iPad

rickwaugh

Someone suggested to me that the music I'm making would do well with video - I do instrumentals, and tend to be theme/story based when I do them. Always thought about doing better videos to go with my music, it all goes together so well.

So, is anyone doing animation on the iPad? @fattigman used Lumafusion to do his video, it looks pretty darn fine. But what about animation? Making animations and importing them into video? I've always loved to make art, but have not done a lot on the iPad. Any suggestions for where to start looking would be much appreciated. I do have ArtRage, though I have not done a lot with it.

realdavidai

Interesting topic I searched the App Store and this app seems to be getting decent reviews
Animation Pro by Stephen Keen
https://appsto.re/us/iXDEbb.i

rickwaugh

That looks interesting, doesn't it?

animal

There's a few Apps that let you save your drawings/paintings as a timelapse-kind-of-movie. 2D, Brushes and Artrage, too. The thing with artrage-movies is, they are saved in a proprietary format, so you'll have to convert them somehow, to be able to use them with other Apps. Personally, I love 2D, has lots of possibilities.
Also great, even for aufioreactive stuff, is Quantum Vj, no drawing there, though.
And I sometimes make morphing movies out of painted pictures ("analog"), there are some nice "a to b"- morphing Apps around... .

Bkrafty

Animation pro is the best one I have found. There is a learning curve but it has in depth tutorials that cover everything...you can even make 3d or 360 stereoscopic animations although I haven't dabbled with those just yet. I like to make animations with it and then use lumafusion for further effects, highly recommend both apps

bigcatrik

@Bkrafty said:
Animation pro is the best one I have found. There is a learning curve but it has in depth tutorials that cover

Is it realistic to animate a song-length video (say about 3 minutes) in Animation Pro?

JohnnyGoodyear

Would guess that our friend @richardyot might have a comment or two on this as I believe animation is very much his line of fig trees etc.

Bkrafty

It's doable for sure, really just depends on how complex your looking to make it and it can be a bit of a memory hog but I get around that by working in segments and after one is finished and I'm ready for the next I just delete the project and save the finished video. Once you finish all the segments just clip them together with video editor of choice.

PhilW

I do 3d animation on the desktop, but it can take a huge amount of time. I did a five minute story animation as a commission and it took around six months to do. If you keep it simple you could do it in a lot less time, but to put something together that looks professional is always going to be time-consuming. For the type of animation that it does, I would agree that Animation Pro looks the business.

richardyot

@JohnnyGoodyear said:
Would guess that our friend @richardyot might have a comment or two on this as I believe animation is very much his line of fig trees etc.

I don't have any experience on the iPad, desktop only. And like @PhilW says even a couple of minutes of animation is likely to take months so I've never even contemplated animating for music.

firejan82

Roughanimator https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/roughanimator/id954718244?mt=8 is pretty good for old school hand drawn 2d animation on the iPad.

nick

I don't have Animation Pro but I agree from what I have seen that it looks like the most fully featured option. For that kind of cut out style character animation.

Two other interesting options are Plastic which unfortunately, the 64 bit version is broken so it will only work on 32 bit devices unless one has an older version. A very capable app otherwise.

And there is Sketchbook Motion for simple and really quick to do loop based animations, quite different from anything else and free for three projects

And for hand drawn frame by frame animation the best option is still Animation Ultimate.

rickwaugh

Yeah, I have no experience with animation, but that's kind of what I figured, it was pretty time consuming. No silver bullets. Might try do some combinations of animation and video, but it's also a whole other rathole to crawl down and spend a lot of time I don't have. That being said, if I retire this year.....

nick

@firejan82
wow, roughanimator looks really interesting, have never heard of it before. the examples on his blog are quite impressive

@rickwaugh
if you have little experience and not too much time, sketchbook motion is worth chekcing out, you can do certain looped animations -- particles, growth, movement along a path -- incredibly fast with a very shallow learning curve

rickwaugh

Tx @nick