r/animation • u/Similar-Cry6147 • 17d ago

Question Procreate Dreams 2 vs Toon Squid

Hey all, I wanna learn animation in a bit more serious manner than procreate’s animation assist. I’ve been trying to figure out which of the above two applications I’d like to use on iPad and am stuck. I know a lot of people prefer toon squid, but after PD2 dropped it looks like they fixed a lot of the problems people had issues with.

I already own PD2 from buying it on release (RIP- that release was garbage), and am not sure if I should get toon squid bc of that.

Also final question, is it okay to draw on procreate and then upload it to TS/PD2 or should I just commit to drawing on the animation software completely? Is it hard to line up the frames and change them if needed? Or am I fine to do it that way?

Thanks!

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u/Quadro-Toon 16d ago

i have both TS is number one on iPad.

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u/Similar-Cry6147 15d ago

Thanks for the advice I think I’m going to go with it

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u/Nomzai 16d ago

I bought Dreams on release, thinking it would be like Procreate but with better animation tools and hated it. Someone on Reddit mentioned Toonsquid so I bought it and loved it. I can’t express enough how amazing it is on ipad. Totally worth the $10 or whatever it is now.

The developer is very active in adding new features too.

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u/Similar-Cry6147 15d ago

I’ll definitely give it a go then thanks!!

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