Stage
Add characters and objects from the left. Drag a figure's body to move it. Orange dots are joints (hands and feet use IK). Blue circle: rotate, square: scale.
Animation
With Auto Key on, move the playhead to another frame and change something; in-betweens are automatic. Preset actions (walk, run, jump…) are added as clips on the pose row and can be dragged and stretched.
Stop Motion
Switch to “Stop Motion” at the top. Set the pose, press N for the next frame; the previous frame shows faded (onion skin). Hold = how many frames each drawing stays on screen.
Lip Sync
Load audio from the Scene tab, select a character, click “Generate Lip Sync From Audio”. The letters on the mouth row can be corrected by hand.
Editing (Tracks)
Everything is an object with its own row on the timeline: characters, objects, texts, pictures, videos, sounds and backgrounds. Each starts at the playhead when you add it and lasts 1 second (a video or sound its own length): drag its band to move it, drag the band's ends to make it shorter or longer. Files can also be dropped straight onto the timeline. Select a background, picture or video to set its In / Out transitions (fade, crossfade, wipe, slide, push, iris, heart, clock, blinds, zoom, spin, blur, flash…), its Look (black & white, sepia, vintage, brightness, contrast, saturation, blur) and Pan & Zoom movement. Media tab → Make Slideshow adds all your photos as background layers with transitions and movement in one click. “Sky (Day/Night)” backgrounds animate the time of day: sun, sunset, moon and stars. S splits the selected object at the playhead.
Effects
Effects tab: weather (rain, snow, lightning, fog…), action (impact, explosion, shatter, dust…), emotion (hearts, kiss, tears, steam, Zzz…) and magic/science. An effect starts at the playhead; drag its bar on the timeline to move it, drag the ends to change its length. With a character selected, body effects attach to it. Combos add an action, its effects and an expression to the selected character in one click (punch, fall, kiss, catch fire…).
Facing
Select a character: Facing → Left / Front / Back / Right turns it on the current frame (keyed, so it can turn around later in the scene). Heading turns it freely around its own axis (key two frames for a turn), Head Turn and Look Up / Down move only the head. Walk / Run with the Away or Toward direction step on the spot with the back or the face to the viewer; Walk Away / Walk Toward Viewer also shrink into / grow out of the picture.
Voice, Captions, Sounds
Audio tab: type a script (“Teacher: Hello!”) and Generate: free in-browser voices become sounds on the timeline with lip sync and captions. Captions can also be timed from any voice-over, edited, and exported as SRT. Sound effects and music loops are made in the browser and are free to use.
Faster Work
Select several objects (Shift+Click or a selection box) to move, align, distribute, key or group them. Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V copy objects, keys or poses, also between projects. My Kit keeps your characters, poses and animated snippets, plus ready templates. Markers (M) mark beats of the voice-over; keys and clips snap to them. Brand Kit (deselect everything → right panel) sets colors, font and a logo. Versions keeps restorable copies and automatic backups.