Animate Animate phase

Poses

Arrange the part, press ➕, repeat. Playback loops through your poses like stop-motion.

Poses are the animation. Arrange the part with the steppers, press to keep the pose, arrange the next one, press ➕ again. ▶ Play loops home → pose 1 → pose 2 → … → home, with an on-purpose chunky, stop-motion feel.

🎬 Animate
Anchor
Poses
Bend area
Attach
Playback
The Animate card as it looks in the app. Tapping Poses opens the view below.
Poses
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✏️ Editing pose 2 of 3
Lift +
Slide +
Turn
Swing +
Bend +
Size +
Around
The Poses view of the Animate card, editing pose 2 of 3.

The pose steppers

  • Lift: raise or lower, one block per press.
  • Slide: push along the anchor line.
  • Turn: spin in 45° notches.
  • Around: which way Turn’s skewer points. ↕ Up (the default), ↔ Side (somersaults), or ⤢ Front (cartwheels, wheels). One axis per part, and it always passes through the anchor .
  • Swing: hinge over in 15° notches.
  • Bend: curl through the bend area .
  • Size: squash and stretch, from half size to double.

Managing the row

The chips across the top are the animation: is home (rest), the numbers are your poses, adds the current arrangement. Tap a number to edit that pose live, ◀ ▶ reorder it, removes it. A part holds up to six poses. Slow / Medium / Fast in Playback sets the pace of the whole loop.

Every stepper press is its own undo step. When it plays, what fires the loop is up to the part’s trigger .

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