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Kinematic / Who it's for

Who it's for.

One free app for making things: 3D and animation, film and video, pictures, music and sound. Script it and plug in your gear, take the same work live, build it into a space, or bring it to a classroom or a lab. Pick your field to see what people like you make with it.

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3D and animation Film and video Pictures and design Music and sound Developers Live Spaces Learning

Models, characters and motion.

3D and animation.

Model, sculpt, rig, animate and render. Then take it into a game, a product shot or a building.

A round creature sculpted in Kinematic from a plain ball, then painted

3D artists and illustrators

Model, sculpt, paint and light a scene, then render the still in full float.

A creature sculpted from a ball, then painted

Character and creature artists

Sculpt the creature, clean the mesh, unwrap and bake, rig it and strike a pose.

A ball keyed in the Kinematic viewport, bouncing along its motion path with a bead on every key

Animators

Key it, see the arcs, blend the clips, drop in mocap and render the shot.

Rounded tiles flipping in ring by ring from the center, rippling, then folding away

Motion designers

Shapes, keyframes, type and particles that move, rendered live and straight to a file.

One reel from the app: a creature sculpted from a ball, a bust rebuilt as even quads, its colors painted on, a rigged fox walking, and an eroded mountain range turning

Game devs

Sculpt, retopo, unwrap, bake and paint, then send it to Unreal, Unity or Blender.

An insulated bottle in terracotta powder coat, with a wooden cap, a steel neck and a printed line drawing of mountains, turning once on a studio backdrop

Product designers

Model the part, dial the materials, light it, put the label on and spin a turntable.

An A-frame cabin among pine trees seen from above while the sun swings from morning to evening and every shadow sweeps across the grass

Archviz artists

Real-size models, sun and sky, site captures, stills, panoramas and walkthroughs.

Shots, cuts and effects.

Film and video.

Cut, grade, track and composite, with the simulations and the 3D in the same file.

a ring set alight, flames climbing into smoke

Film and VFX

Fire, water and wreckage, keyed and tracked into the plate, out as float EXR.

a hazy lake clip warmed on the color wheels while Levels sets its blacks and whites, the histogram opening up underneath

Video editors and colorists

Cut on tracks, grade with wheels, scopes and LUTs, fix the shot and deliver.

Photos, layouts and pictures grown from code.

Pictures and design.

Retouch a photo, draw a logo, or grow a picture from noise and rules.

Wipe between the look and the photo as shot

Photographers

Develop, pick the sky or the subject, retouch, merge brackets and save every size.

a poster called Open Studio: packed circles in a disc, a ring of words turning around it, and an underline that draws itself on

Graphic designers and illustrators

Draw with the pen, set type, build posters, and save files for print, web and plotter.

Warped noise in five flat colors with thin cream lines between them, drifting slowly

Generative artists and creative coders

Shaders, noise, feedback, particles and Python, played live or saved as prints.

Synths, samples and the pictures that go with them.

Music and sound.

Patch a synth, record and edit, play your plugins, and make visuals that react to the music.

a loop playing in the piano roll, and a song driving a picture

Musicians and producers

Write, record, build synths and drum machines, mix, host your plugins and drive Live.

the Sound pane stepping through eight edits on a creak: stretched, reversed, given room for a plate tail, reversed again into a swell, faded in and normalized, with each edit a node on the canvas below

Sound designers

Record, clean, stretch and layer sounds, then put them under picture or into a show.

two sets of rings crossing into a moire pattern that pulses with a beat: each kick fills the crossings with violet and pulls the rings tighter, with the beat's spectrum running along the bottom

Audiovisual artists

Sound that draws the picture, and pictures that play the sound, in one set.

Code, the command line and the gear on your bench.

Developers.

Script it, extend it and run it with no window. Plug in boards, controllers, lights and cameras, and build things you can hold.

Twelve colored rings turning around one another, each at its own speed

Software devs

Script it in Python, write your own nodes and shaders, and run it from the command line.

A ring of 24 lights, a panel of 160 and a strip of 60, all glowing with one moving rainbow pattern

Hardware and physical computing

Serial boards, MIDI controllers, OSC, DMX fixtures and depth cameras, live in the graph.

one vase, drawn for the plotter and shown solid for the printer

Makers

Draw for the plotter, print parts and receipts, and let a sensor drive the piece.

Shows, stages and streams.

Live.

Concerts, clubs, theater, dance, events, broadcast and streams. The show runs from one file.

A concert stage in Perform Mode: an LED wall, beam fans and moving heads over the crowd

Concerts and tours

Lights, LED walls and screens on the band's clock, from one file.

neon lines folded into eight mirrors, pulsing at 124 BPM

Clubs and VJs

Sound-reactive looks, your own MIDI controller, strobes on the kick.

A stage seen from the stalls: a projected sky across the set fades from dusk to night with stars and a moon, while the backlight beams and the special on the actor turn from amber to blue

Theater

Patch the rig, program the cues, map the set, and lock it all to timecode.

Points of light riding a dancer's joints and trailing behind each move

Dance and performance

A webcam reads the body. Movement plays the picture, the sound and the light.

A keynote hall in 3D: a full house, a presenter at the lectern, the new product turning on the big screen, and the session title with a QR code on the side screens

Events and conferences

Wide screens, live captions, speaker names and the stream, run from a tablet.

A camera shot of a park with a LIVE bug and a clock, a weather lower third that wipes in and out, and a news crawl along the bottom

Broadcast and live production

NDI in and out, ATEM and vMix tally, PTZ cameras, graphics and RTMP.

The same scanned man projected on a wall, copying the arm of the person in front of it, then dancing

Streamers and creators

A scanned character that moves with you, live captions, and it all goes to OBS.

Rooms, buildings and places people walk through.

Spaces.

Museums, immersive rooms, building facades and brand spaces. Built to run for a season.

a scanned basket of shells that turns and tips toward a visitor's raised hand

Museums and installations

Pieces that see, hear and answer visitors, then run all season on their own.

a dome previewed in 3D, the show on its inside and visitors under it

Immersive rooms and domes

Blend projectors into one wall, render for a dome, and move sound around the room.

a projector throwing moving lines of light across a stone building front at night, previewed in 3D

Architecture and building facades

Map light onto buildings, run facade lighting on a schedule, and render the design.

a passer-by's sweater, tried on in each of the season's four colors

Brand experiences and retail

Windows that react to passers-by, product scans and renders, every screen in the store.

Classrooms and labs.

Learning.

Teach with it, script it, and measure what you find.

a keyboard synth built on a panel, with its scope and spectrum

Schools

Put it on every lab machine and every student laptop, with no license server to run.

16,000 samples from a CSV drawn as points colored by speed, the latest stretch of the run in bright gold

Research and data visualization

Script it in Python, run it headless, pull data in, and see what you measure.

Free and open. Yours, forever.

No account, no license key. macOS, Windows, Linux and Raspberry Pi.

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