Flipbook animation, right in your browser
Made in Flipghost
Real projects, drawn frame by frame. Hover to play, then open one in the workshop and take it apart.
Everything in the workshop
Simple enough for a first flipbook, with the pieces you'll want once it turns into something more.
Onion skinning
The frames either side show through, tinted, so every in-between lands.
Layers
Keep the character, the scenery and the sky apart. Hide, lock, fade or reorder.
Pen, ink and marker
Three brushes that feel different, with eight sizes and four strengths.
Fill and shapes
Colour a whole area in one tap. Lines, boxes, circles and triangles in a drag.
Any speed
Slide from 1 to 30 frames a second, and see how long each one holds.
Sound
Drop in clips, trim and split them, loop to the end, fade in and out.
GIF or MP4
Render in the browser at full size or double, with your sound in the video.
Saved as you draw
Every stroke is kept. Refresh, close the tab, come back tomorrow.
Four steps, start to finish
From a blank canvas to a file you can post, without leaving the tab.
Draw a frame
Open a canvas and put down your first mark. Pick a brush, a colour and a size, and draw.
Ghost the next one
Onion skinning drops the neighbouring frames underneath, tinted, so every in-between lands on the arc.
Flip it back
Play the strip at any speed from 1 to 30 fps. Reorder and duplicate until the motion reads right.
Take it with you
Render a looping GIF, or an MP4 with your sound, straight in the browser at full or double size.
Made for first animations
If you've ever drawn in the corner of a notebook and flipped the pages, you already know how this works.
Kids
Big friendly tools and nothing to install. Draw a frame, add the next, press play.
Students
Learn timing, spacing and squash-and-stretch the way animators always have: one frame at a time.
Hobbyists
Layers, sound and clean exports when a doodle turns into something worth posting.
Draw between the ghosts
The frames either side of the one you're drawing sit underneath it, tinted and dimmed, so every in-between lands where it should.
- Red for the frames behind, green for the ones ahead
- Ghost up to three frames each way
- Show every layer, or just the one you're on
Animate the hero, keep the hills
Put the moving parts on their own layer and the still parts on another. Redraw the character in every frame without touching the scenery.
- Name, hide, lock and fade each layer
- Drag to reorder
- Erasing only touches the layer you're on
A small box of good tools
Five tools down the side, each with a few choices tucked behind it. Click a tool to pick it, click again to see its options.
- Pen, ink and marker brushes, in eight sizes
- An eraser that rubs out exactly what it touches
- Lines, boxes, circles and triangles
Paint the set once
Draw a background a single time and it sits behind every frame, in playback and in your exports. Pick a paper colour, import a picture, or fill the sky in one tap.
- Paper colours, or your own image
- Fill tool colours a whole area at once
- Edit it any time from the BG tile
Your flipbook, laid out flat
Every frame in one strip. Play it, drag frames around, and build the next one from a copy of the last.
- Shift-click to pick a run of frames, then copy, move or delete them
- Play at any speed from 1 to 30 frames a second
- Duplicate a frame to build on it
Give it a voice
Drop music or sound effects onto the timeline under your frames. They play with the animation and come along in the MP4.
- Several clips at once: trim, split, duplicate
- Loop a beat to the end of the animation
- Fade in and fade out
Finish in the browser
Rendering happens on your own computer, not in a queue. Choose GIF or MP4 from one menu, at full size or double, and the file downloads.
- Looping GIFs, with a transparent option
- MP4 video with your sound mixed in
- Double size stays sharp: frames are drawn fresh
Pick up where you left off
Sign in and every project saves itself as you draw, then waits for you on whichever computer you open next.
- Autosaves while you work, even through a refresh
- Every project in one place
- Import a picture to trace over
Hands stay on the keys
Every tool and every frame is one keystroke away, and you can change any of them to whatever your hands already know.
Sized for wherever it lands
Start square for a feed, widescreen for a title card, or A4 if it's going to paper. Exports render at the preset's full resolution.
Open a canvas and start flipping
No installs, no setup, no account needed to try it. Your first frame is one click away.