Compare Cartwheel vs. Express Animate

Cartwheel is an innovative platform that transforms text into animations, enabling users to animate characters for a variety of projects including videos, games, apps, advertisements, social media, augmented reality, and virtual reality, all through simple text input. You can create comprehensive character animations just by typing, use these animations as initial drafts, and refine them further in your preferred 3D software. It is also an excellent tool for storyboarding, posing, and crafting background scenes. After animating your characters, you can easily import them into any game engine you prefer. Focus on playtesting, design, and development while we take care of the animation aspect for you. This platform is ideal for creating animated combat scenes, non-player characters (NPCs), animation lists, and cutscenes. Now, stunning 3D character animations for your advertisements can be achieved without breaking the bank. You can easily animate your mascot or spokesperson, while generating background characters and even crowds with minimal effort. In addition, you can swiftly produce expressive animations for social media content, presentations, or chats, allowing you to include captions, alter backgrounds, and create videos in mere seconds. Imagine quickly populating your neighborhood scenes with animated characters running around, giving a lively touch to your projects.

Express Animate allows you to craft breathtaking animations utilizing a variety of objects, images, illustrations, and videos. You can select from an extensive selection of effects and animation tools to infuse your project with your personal style. Unleash your creativity by applying transformations and effects to image objects with ease. Instantly switch a color object to black and white or sepia tones to achieve your desired aesthetic. You can enhance any object by fine-tuning its color temperature or saturation levels. Employ keyframes in conjunction with object properties to create smooth motion tweens, zooms, rotations, and a variety of other dynamic effects. Bring your characters and animated cartoons to life by animating individual body parts or consolidating multiple objects to streamline the animation workflow. The timeline feature allows you to manipulate your character's movements to create captivating animations. Additionally, you can utilize various layers and keyframes to incorporate special effects, audio, and more into your projects. Express Animate is equipped with sophisticated tools tailored for seasoned animators and graphic designers, offering features like vector masks, onion skins, blending modes, and a graph editor that ensures meticulous animation precision. With its user-friendly interface and powerful capabilities, Express Animate opens the door to endless creative possibilities for animation enthusiasts.