iAnimate

Animation as Terry Gilliams, Monty Python did it, but this time on an iPad.
A very essential, intuitive and powerful cut-out, Stop-Motion animation app.

Just import selected images from your iPad photo album, manipulate them freely frame after frame and start animation at once. Finish the animation and play it.
No more tediously drawing frame after frame.
For kids as well as adults. For amateurs as well as artists.
You can use any image in your photo album for animation in the app. Import images with ordinary square frames for backgrounds and import cut out images with transparency for “puppets”.
You are the director. You choose your actors (puppets), and you choose your stage.
By default “iAnimate” includes three images, a mystical seabed, a diving girl and a colourful fish, which you can use for your first animation.
In “iAnimate” you can
– Import any image from your photo album
– Move, rotate, scale and flip the image freely
– Select transparency
– Bring the image forward or backward in relation to other imported images in your project
– Show or hide your image
– Reset the image
– Lock the move, rotate or/and scale function for any chosen image if needed creating the
animation.
– Create as many project as you wish
– Save them by name
– Export every frame as a single photo to the photo album of iPad, (you can even export images with transparency to photo album)
– Add and delete frames
– Go forth and back in the animation and add and delete frames
– Play and pause animation
– Select frame speed of the animation
– Hide and show menu bars
NB! If you also want to export own animations to you camera roll of the iPad, it is easy to do so in the paid and full version of the app: “iAnimate Collage”, on App store.
Tips:
Get png images with transparency in different ways:
– Draw and paint your own figures in a drawing app, which can export images with transparency.
– Erase the background of a selected photo in an eraser app, which can export an image with transparency to the photo album of the iPad, for example the app, “Precise Eraser with Alpha”.
– Create your own images in real world. Scan or take photos of your images and import them to the iPad’s photo album directly or by mail or Camera Connection Kit for iPad. Erase the background in an eraser app.
– Get free png images from online royalty free public domain clipart sites as for example Clker, (www.Clker.com).
Extra “hidden” feature in “iAnimate Collage”:
Use the capacity of “iAnimate Collage” to create single collage artworks out of your own photos or drawings on your iPad. Position every imported image, select the right degree of transparency of every image and export the finished artwork to your photo album.
For parents and grandparents:
Kids love to draw and paint. Now you can create animations out of their artwork. Imagine the possibilities!