Shack Animator 2D Portable

Shack Animator 2D Portable is a lightweight, production-focused 2D animation studio built for speed and control — now in your hands, on your tablet.

Powered by a responsive raster brush engine and a fast real-time timeline, it gives you a complete frame-by-frame workflow for sketching, inking, painting and animating — wherever you are.

BRUSH & PAINT
• Responsive raster brush engine with pressure and tilt
• Custom brush presets and importable brush packs
• Brush, Eraser, Fill and Liquify tools
• Eyedropper, selection and move/transform tools

LAYERS
• Layer-based workflow with blend modes, opacity and transforms
• Groups and hierarchy tools to keep complex scenes organized
• Reference layers and a movable pivot

ANIMATE
• Frame-by-frame timeline with real-time playback
• Keyframes with adjustable exposure and easing
• Onion skinning for the previous and next frames
• Interactive scrub bar for fast review
• AI Inbetweener — generate in-between frames from your own drawings, computed on-device

SOUND & EXPORT
• Audio layers with timeline scrubbing for timing and lip-sync
• Import images and audio
• Export to MP4 video with an audio mix
• Built-in project gallery to manage your work

BUILT FOR TABLETS & STYLUS
• Tablet-first, touch-friendly interface
• Pressure and tilt support, with stylus side-button line lock (including S Pen)
• Smooth, low-latency inking with an adjustable stabilizer

Everything runs on-device and fully offline — no account or subscription required!

Recent changes:
New: a movable pivot for layers. Set it in the Inspector or drag the handle in Free Transform.
Rotation and scale now turn about that point, between keys too, so a door swings on its hinge.
Moving the pivot never moves the drawing, and it is one undo step.