What is Animation Desk?
Animation Desk is an ideal application for learning and making 2D animations. It works like a digital flipbook but with more flexibility and accessibility for students and teachers.
Animation Desk has a wide range of animating tools. Users can find beautiful brushes, onion skinning for motion tracking, sound effect editors, layer panels, and frame rate settings in the app.
Students can start with a blank project, a video, a photo, or an animation project. After students complete their animation, they can save the animations as videos, GIFs, PDFs, or an editable animation project.
Teachers can find free handbooks on Animation Desk product website.
Recommended Usage
1 hour/ week
Educational Impact
 Company | Business Name: Kdan Mobile Software Ltd. HQ Location: Taiwan, Province Of China Founded: 2009 |
| Age Range | 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18, 19+ |
 Features | Free Cloud Storage |
 Languages | Chinese, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish; Castilian, Russian, Japanese |
 Accessibility | Few to no features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Available OfflineInternet - Low BandwidthDesktop - ChromebookMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - Android |
 Set Up | It take around a minutes to install the app. |
 Training | Documentation |
 Support | EmailKnowledge Base |
| Home Learning | Parent Access Anyone can create the account. |
 Tags | animationartcreativitydrawing2D AnimationAnimation TutorialGIFStorybaord |
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Animation Desk PricingPricing Plans FreemiumFree TrialPaid Subscription Animation Desk pricing starts from $29.99 / year Animation Desk Pro iOS (work on Animation Desk iOS) Monthly Plan: USD 4.99/month, Quarterly Plan: USD15.99/ Quarter, Annual Plan: USD 29.99/ Year Animation Desk Pro Windows (work on Animation Desk Windows) Monthly Plan: USD 4.99/month, Quarterly Plan: USD15.99/ Quarter, Annual Plan: USD 29.99/ Year For volume purchases or other requirements, please get in touch with us at helpdesk@kdanmobile.com.  Optimised for a quick response | |
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May 2023
Easy to use and have sufficient tools
Sebastian found Animation Desk:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“I was looking for an free program for drawing my project and found this amazing app! It is very easy to understand how to use the tools of animation. Nevertheless, a manual to all functions will be nice.”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Before this I understand nothing about animation, after drawing my projects, I've acquired some basic knowledges of animation. This is so fun!”
Krista Chen
Student
Used Animation Desk monthly for 1-2 years
May 2023
Krista Chen found Animation Desk:
- Moderately increases student collaboration
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Alexandre freires
Professor de artes
Used Animation Desk monthly for 7–12 months
May 2023
Pela qualidade do aplicativo e o resultado social
Alexandre freires found Animation Desk:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Na solução de problemas”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Tem mais prazer em estudar e mais atenção”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Vários estudantes desenhistas que até então, não se conhecia”
Apr 2023
It's really easy to use for beginners like me! It would be nice if they offered some image stock and more drawing tools for different shapes.
Javy found Animation Desk:
- Moderately increases student collaboration“My friends and I wanted to make an animation to promote our club event on campus and found Animation Desk a useful tool. We created a storyboard first, and then we collaborated on drawing the animation.”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“It's exciting to draw out my imagination!”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“I'm using the Animation Desk on an iPad. It's very helpful that it offers in-app tutorial videos and I learn the basic principles of animation (ex. FPS, layers, movement path background) and useful tools. (ex. rulers, onion skin)”
Apr 2023
Easy to animate on and draw on.
Sophia found Animation Desk:
- Significantly increases student collaboration“We hold a class competition that motivates students to work together and create animations, which helps them develop teamwork, cooperation skills, and enhances their imagination and creativity by exchanging ideas.”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing
- Significantly builds student knowledge“In addition to using the app, we also teach kids about the principles of animation and what it entails. This allows us to effectively communicate the key concepts of animation to our students.”