Learn AnimToon
Your First Animation Starts With One Drawing.
Never animated before? You’re in the right place.
AnimToon is designed to make frame-by-frame animation approachable, whether you’re discovering animation for the first time or already know your way around a timeline.
Learn at your own pace, from your first drawing to your first finished animation.
Start simple. Draw a frame. Add another. Make it move.
GETTING STARTED
Getting Started
Make Your First Drawing Move.
New to AnimToon — or new to animation altogether?
Start here.
Learn how to create your first project, make your first drawings, add frames and press Play to watch your first animation come to life.
No animation experience required.
GETTING STARTED
Drawing & Brushes
It All Starts With a Line.
Learn how to sketch, ink and refine your drawings with AnimToon.
Discover the Sketch and Ink layers, adjust your brush size and colors, and get comfortable drawing with a mouse, stylus, graphics tablet or pen display.
LEARN DRAWING & BRUSHES
Timeline & Frames
Turn Drawings Into Movement.
A drawing becomes animation when another drawing follows it.
Learn how to create, duplicate, delete and navigate frames, organize your animation and understand how timing changes the way your drawings move.
LEARN TIMELINE & FRAMES
Onion Skin
See What Came Before. Imagine What Comes Next.
Onion Skin helps you understand the relationship between one drawing and the next.
Learn how to use surrounding frames as guides for poses, spacing and movement — and how Premium controls can give you even more flexibility.
LEARN ONION SKIN
Rolling
Feel the Movement Between Your Drawings.
Animation isn’t only about pressing Play.
Learn how Rolling lets you move back and forth through surrounding drawings to compare poses, check volumes, follow movement and see how one frame connects to another.
LEARN ROLLING
Reference Images
Keep Your Inspiration Close.
Character sheets, photographs, poses, backgrounds or your own drawings can all help while you animate.
Learn how AnimToon Premium Reference Layers let you import, position, scale, rotate and manage visual references directly inside your project.
LEARN REFERENCE LAYERS
From Computer to Tablet
Take Your Project With You.
Your animation doesn’t have to stay on the device where you started it.
Learn how to move an AnimToon project between compatible devices and continue working on the same drawings and frames.
Start at your desk. Continue on your tablet. Come back whenever you want.
LEARN ABOUT PROJECTS
Export Your Animation
Your Drawings Are Moving. Now Share Them.
Finished your animation?
Learn how to export your work as PNG or MP4 and discover the additional formats and advanced export options available with AnimToon Premium.
From videos and image sequences to transparent backgrounds and social media formats, choose the output that fits your project.
LEARN ABOUT EXPORTING
Learn Animation, Not Just AnimToon.
Knowing where a button is only gets you so far.
AnimToon Learn will also help you understand the ideas behind frame-by-frame animation.
Timing. Spacing. Poses. Movement. Arcs. In-betweens.
The principles that turn a sequence of drawings into something that feels alive.
EXPLORE ANIMATION BASICS
Tips & Tutorials
Keep Drawing. Keep Experimenting.
Discover practical tutorials, animation exercises, workflow ideas and techniques you can try directly in AnimToon.
Start with a bouncing ball.
Make a face blink.
Animate a hand waving.
Then try something of your own.
VIEW TUTORIALS
Draw Something. Make It Move.
You don’t need to know everything before you start.
Your first animation can begin with two drawings.
Open AnimToon and make the second one different from the first.
That’s where animation begins.
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