Meet Adeity: One App to Draw, Make Comics and Animate

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Every artist knows the juggling act: one program for sketching, another for laying out comic pages, a third for animation, and a pile of exports moving between them. Adeity is my answer to that. It’s a single creative app with three workspaces (Draw, Comics and Animate) that share one Home and one familiar editor.

Try it today

The web version of Adeity is live at adeity.toonsmag.com. Open it in your browser and start drawing. There’s nothing to install.

Built for drawing first

I’ve drawn for years in PaintTool SAI and Krita, and I wanted Adeity’s brushes to feel just as alive: responsive, pressure-sensitive and dynamic. I test it myself on an iPad with Apple Pencil. Adeity aims to support every style of art: pencil, ink, watercolour, acrylic, pastel and oil. A vector-like ink tool will let you edit your lines after you draw them, and alignment tools will give you more control.

Meet Adeity: One App to Draw, Make Comics and Animate

From drawing to comic to motion

In Adeity, your artwork moves freely between workspaces. Start with a drawing, turn it into a comic strip in either vertical or horizontal format, and take it into Animate to make a motion comic. You can also bring work back the other way, with no export puzzles.

For every age

I want Adeity to be simple enough that a small child can pick it up and enjoy drawing, and still powerful enough to be a professional’s main tool. The interface uses clear icons instead of walls of text, and it stays light so it runs smoothly without draining your device.

Meet Adeity: One App to Draw, Make Comics and Animate

Its own look, inside and out

Every icon in Adeity was drawn for the app. The fonts are Adeity’s own too: Comic and Shout lettering made for comics, plus Adeity Sans and Display. The logo, an “A” with a halo, sums up the spirit of the app.

What’s coming

Adeity is growing beyond the browser, with apps planned for Windows, Mac, iPad, Android tablets and phones. Artists will also be able to publish cartoons, illustrations, comic strips and animations straight to Cartoonist Network. Adeity already powers the drawing page on Toons Mag.

Give it a try at adeity.toonsmag.com and tell me what you make. I’d love to hear what you think.

— Arifur Rahman, founder of Adeity

Arifur Rahman er en bangladeshi-norsk illustratør, tegneserieskaper og avistegner. Han er utgiver av det nettbasert tegnemagasinet Toons Mag, og organiserer internasjonale tegnekonkurranser og utstillinger i Norge og utlandet.

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