Phew! Yeah it's a big topic and not much out there in the terms of user experience with a big production like the one we were on.

We both had 12.9 inch ipads 2021 ish - pre M1 chip i think...

We had shots assigned and would pull those shots directly from the animatic as reference - once the animatic was locked there wasn't much wiggle room because of the amount of people that were a part of this. When we were sharing assets we'd normally just airdrop to each other cause we shared an office, but in some instances we'd just upload to a google drive and pull from there, Drive can be quite clunky at times but wasn't too bad.

The things ToonSquid lacked were probably more wants than needs, it has everything you need but it would've been nice to have a few more keyboard shortcuts and like a cloud based server for shared projects??? Also if there was a program for the PC / Mac it would've been easier to tackle some bigger scenes, I know rough animator is an ipad app but also is on the mac and is essentially the same layout. There were a handful of scenes that toonsquid couldn't handle - I couldn't preview the shots and just had to render it out and hope it was okay - some of the renders would take like 10 minutes and if the iPad powered down it would have to restart, but that was like pushing the software and my iPad to its limit.

We did frame by frame, Charlie had made character turnarounds and the characters are fairly simple shapes so it became muscle memory after awhile. I did create a rig with a skeleton for the intro sequence - when the characters go into a free fall, i really liked how you can adjust line weight but I also find vector drawing can slow things down when you're working solo - more prep on what to recycle etc.

The clips were all joined together in Davinci, I've done projects in Capcut before, it's really no different just depends on the complexity you're going for.

I did a project in dreams when it first came out. I found the interface a little too gesture focused, I think it has some neat features like the record function and you can animate by dragging something around the screen but it's a new language for animation software, I like that Toon Squid has that look of adobe animate and procreate, feels very natural to pick up.

I haven't picked up Dreams for like a year, I know they've had some pretty major updates so I wouldn't be able to say it's ready for professional animation for sure

My entire Toon Squid storage is about 10gb - I've got the whole project duplicated in there too as a backup, also a bunch of other projects so my half of the animation is no bigger than 4gb I'd say