Pick a recipe or keep your own keys, then stack anticipation, overshoot, squash and nine more layers with their own sliders. Drive them with a field, land them on the beat, draw a path on. In Blender and in Kinetic Studio in your browser.
Blender 4.4 or newer on Windows, macOS and Linux.
The full tool adds Your own props in Blender 104 recipes Twelve layers Fields and export
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The full tool adds Your own props in Blender 104 recipes Twelve layers Fields and export
The full tool adds Your own props in Blender 104 recipes Twelve layers Fields and export
Six parts, in the order you use them. Each one works on objects already in your scene.
Twelve layers sit on a recipe or on your own keys, each with its own sliders, and an idle layer says why. Pick one of 9 moods to set the stack in one click.
104 recipes: hops, hinges, nods, pops, entrances and exits, and 8 sequences such as Product Hero. Exploded views come apart in tiers from your collections, without overlaps, and come back in reverse.
Pick one of 8 shapes or draw your own curve in the view, and it draws itself on. The tip takes the same layers as a move: it anticipates, overshoots its end and settles.
Move a ball or an empty past a group: the nearer each object, the stronger its anticipation and overshoot, and the sooner it starts. The field shows in the view, so you see its reach.
Load a track and Kinetic marks its tempo and beats on a ruler in the timing ribbon. Snap a stagger to the beats and each object lands on one; a layer can accent the downbeat.
Offset a collection by order, distance or height, chain clips one after another, and loop them without a seam. Check a take against 6 export profiles, then export a GLB or FBX.
Three short clips with captions. Each one plays when you scroll to it.
Drop in your own GLB or pick a prop in the demo above, then move the sliders.
Back to the demoYour demo settings open in the Studio, with the 104 recipes, stagger, exploded views, fields, beats and draw-on paths.
Open Kinetic StudioSend the recipe to Blender on the live link, or open the same recipe file in the add-on.
Get it for BlenderOur props at rest: each built to real size, with its pivot where the real one turns. Kinetic works the same on yours.
Kinetic's own animation on everyday props, caught as a strobe.
For Blender 4.4 or newer on Windows, macOS and Linux.
The same engine as the add-on, linked to Blender both ways.
Short steps with pictures, from install to your first exported take.
Blender 4.4 or newer, on Windows, macOS and Linux. Kinetic uses the action slots that Blender 4.4 introduced.
No. Kinetic writes to its own action on its own NLA track. Your action, your NLA tracks and your delta keys stay as they were, and Remove takes Kinetic's layer off.
Yes. 12 layers handle squash and stretch, anticipation, follow-through, slow in and out, arcs, secondary action, timing and exaggeration. Staging has a framing camera and a silhouette view, solid drawing a volume check, and appeal comes from 9 moods and tuned recipes. Work pose to pose on your own keys, or straight ahead from a recipe.
Kinetic animates objects and props: whole objects, their parts and collections. It does not pose a character rig.
From the 4E tab in the 3D view's sidebar, from the Add menu, or by searching for Kinetic in Blender's search.
It is still there, without a key of its own: open the Kinetic pie from the 4E tab or the Object menu (and the Quick panel and All Moves menu in the 4E tab). Open the window from the 4E tab, the Add menu or the search. To add your own key, right-click the Open button and pick Assign Shortcut.
A take exports as GLB or FBX with six profiles: Unity (FBX or glTF), Unreal, Godot, the web and a generic GLB. The export check lists what would not carry over, with a one-click fix where there is one.
Yes. What you make with Kinetic is yours, for your own and your clients' work.
Install the latest .zip the same way. Your settings stay. The changelog lists what changed.
Email 4edesigner@gmail.com with your Blender version and what you did.