Welcome to Brush Ninja!

25 February 2018

Brush Ninja is an online, browser based, animation tool. It’s an easy way to create simple animations, for free, without the need to learn complex software (or spend a fortune).

In a former life I worked at Miniclip.com - and so I saw the development of the Sketch Star project. Sketch Star had a fantastic team behind it but it was very complex and cost a lot to run, so unfortunately had to be closed in April 2013. Whilst I worked with, and knew, the Sketch Star team I was never directly involved. I always felt the project was a bit too complex, and so I wanted to see if I could do something similar that would avoid the issues (I felt) Sketch Star had. Brush Ninja is my solution.

The major difference between Sketch Star and Brush Ninja is that Brush Ninja does not have a community platform tied to it. It doesn’t have a way for people to communicate, or to share animations. It is simply an online animation tool.

I have also purposefully kept Brush Ninja very simple. Limitations can enhance creativity - and I hope that by keeping things simple creators will be able to focus on making amazing animations instead of worrying about what tool to use.

I have quite a big wishlist for new Brush Ninja features but I’m also always looking for new ideas. I love to hear from users and fans of the product so please feel free to contact me.

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Awesome Animations Showcase

19 July 2018

I love seeing people sharing their Brush Ninja animations on Twitter and I wanted a way to record my favorites. So I have made an animation showcase, that highlights the awesome animations being made in Brush Ninja. If you want your animation to be featured then share the animated gif...

Animations Save as you Draw

11 April 2018

Something I have wanted to have for a long time is a Brush Ninja file format, and this is the first step towards that. Animations are now saved in your web browser so that you can come back to them later and continue where you left off. Even if your...

Custom Animation Backgrounds

28 May 2020

Update: As of January 2021 this feature is now available on Brush Ninja. There’s more help on setting custom backgrounds here. After ‘more colours’, custom background images is the most requested new feature. I’ve been asked for this a lot of times, and it’s finally coming in Brush Ninja version...

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