Affinity Photo vs. Affinity Designer? (What's the difference)

[Affinity iPad Student]

Hello everyone, 

Despite my forum name, I really am, a 2 week or so, brand new baby to the world of photo editing. Most I've done is crop. I'm not a photographer. I'm not even an artist that can draw. I however am part of a gaming development business.

 

For what I do, I needed something to where I can create my vision and show it to people. When I discovered Affinity Photo (about 3 weeks ago) and what it's iPad software can do, well... I knew right there, this is what I needed. Having a vibrant Community and Moderators sealed the deal. As I started watching YouTube for videos on it, I kept getting these "Affinity Designer" recommendations. Naturally, I doved in, checked them out. I initially throught, it was a add on for AP. 

 

Upon further watching, I now know, that's not the case. If I'm seeing and absorbing correctly, we can literally create stuff from scratch with Affinity Designer? Create renders? Create small scripted animated scenes? A camera panning through a bedroom showing off the room detail? a cartoon character walking?

 

If this is what AD can do, this is EXACTLY what I need! A software that will allow me to "illustrate" in maximum detail what I see in my mind. With AP, I still have to scour the net for pictures, which is ok, but if I can create it directly from my mind, it matches the vision. Hence, not relying on those "close to" the vision images to convey it.

 

Any good videos that breaksdown exactly what Affinity Designer can and cannot do? Or can anyone here express how it compares or differentiates from AP? 

 

Is there a iPad release? iPad Beta?

 

Thank you. 

[DWright]

This forum post explains the differences between Affinity Photo and Designer.

 

Our developers are working on a iPad version of Designer but I do not have a date for when this will be released.

[Alfred]

8 hours ago, Affinity iPad Student said:

If I'm seeing and absorbing correctly, we can literally create stuff from scratch with Affinity Designer? Create renders? Create small scripted animated scenes? A camera panning through a bedroom showing off the room detail? a cartoon character walking?

 

The Affinity apps don't have support for scripting yet. There are no animation features at all, not even for creating animated GIFs from a set of static images (and, as far as I know, there are no plans to add them).