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Learn.

Make something real in your first hour, then pick a path. Every tutorial starts from a new project or a demo, works right in the viewport, and stands on its own.

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Your first hourPick a pathFree & openLook it upGet help
learn by making it, right in the viewport
Your steps
  1. 1Start from a sphere
  2. 2Pull out arms and legs
  3. 3Raise horns and spikes
  4. 4Carve a suit and buttons
  5. 5Paint it teal
  6. 6Paint the suit purple
  7. 7Paint the lapels cream
  8. 8Add sunglasses and shoes
Start here

Your first hour.

Eight short projects, about 87 minutes in all. Pick any one: each starts from scratch and ends with something you made. Install the app from the download page, open it, and go.

The finished creature: teal, with cream horns and feet, dark eyes and a snout.
Create12 min

Sculpt a little horned creature

A round teal critter with horns, pointy ears, stubby feet, a snout and dark eyes, sculpted and painted from a plain ball.

Starts from a new projectMake it →
The finished hut: terracotta walls, a pointed roof, a door and a window.
Create10 min

Model a little hut

A little terracotta hut with a pointed roof, a front door and a window, modeled from one box.

Starts from a new projectMake it →
A hazy lake after this tutorial: clearer water, a deeper sky and a level shoreline.
Edit10 min

Make a photo pop

Your own photo, clearer and brighter, with a deeper sky, a level horizon and soft dark corners, saved as a new picture file.

Starts from a new projectMake it →
Three clips on the video timeline with dissolves between them, a title above and the picture at the top right.
Edit12 min

Cut a short video

A short video from your own clips, put in order and trimmed, with fades, dissolves and a title, exported as an MP4 file.

Starts from a new projectMake it →
Your torch as the render preview draws it: a tall orange flame rising off the ball, with dark smoke curling away from its tip.
Simulate10 min

Light a torch

A torch flame that burns off a small ball, made taller and warmer by you, and drawn the way a final render draws it.

Starts from a new projectMake it →
Soft circles of warm light over a dark field, pushed in by a loud beat of the song.
Perform12 min

Make a visual that pulses to your music

A field of glowing bokeh that zooms in on every loud beat of a song you choose, playing on the whole screen.

Starts from the Drifting Bokeh Field demoMake it →
A walking fox in the video, and the same fox up close on the 32 by 18 LED panel, each light the color of the picture under it.
Perform9 min

Play a video on a wall of LED lights

A video playing on a 32 by 18 LED panel in the app's own panel view, every light the color of the picture under it, ready to wire to a real panel.

Starts from a new projectMake it →
Your synth's panel: Cutoff, Resonance, Attack and Release knobs above a two-octave keyboard.
Play12 min

Patch a synth you can play

A synth with a saw oscillator, a filter and an envelope, played from keys on screen, with its own panel of four knobs that can open in a window.

Starts from a new projectMake it →
Pick a path

What do you want to make?

Each path has tutorials that stand on their own, demos to pull apart, and guides in the app for going deeper.

Create

6 tutorials
  • Sculpt a little horned creature
  • Model a little hut
  • Draw a mountain logo
Start learning →

Edit

6 tutorials
  • Make a photo pop
  • Cut a short video
  • Give a photo a film look
Start learning →

Simulate

5 tutorials
  • Light a torch
  • Shatter a ball into pieces
  • Break a dam, then turn the water to mud
Start learning →

Perform

5 tutorials
  • Make a visual that pulses to your music
  • Play a video on a wall of LED lights
  • Line up a projection on a wall from the side
Start learning →

Play

6 tutorials
  • Patch a synth you can play
  • Clean up a field recording
  • Turn a creak into a whoosh
Start learning →

Develop

5 tutorials
  • Spin a donut with one line of Python
  • Paste in a Shadertoy and give it sliders
  • Recolor a twisting torus in its shader
Start learning →

KinematicFree &
Open.

One app for 3D, pictures, video, simulation, live shows and sound. What you make with it is yours.

Free

Free to use.No account, no license key, no revenue cap. Use it for paid work on every machine you own.

Open

Fully open.No lock-in, nothing proprietary. Your models, pictures, video and sound open anywhere.

Local

Runs on your machine.Tracking, depth, transcription and every other AI tool run on your machine, with no cloud account.

Yours

Made to be extended.Python, shaders, your own nodes and extensions, all documented here. For developers →

Look it up

Every node, every panel, every command.

The full reference lives in the app under Help, so it works offline. The command line and shader API are on the developers page.

2,225Node referenceEvery node, its ports and its settings.In the app
443CookbookShort recipes for one job each.In the app
170+App referenceEvery panel, editor, inspector and window.In the app
17Python APIGraphs, undo, panels, the GPU and more.In the app
30+Command linerun, render, lint, test, ctl and the rest. WGSLShader APIHelpers and libraries for your own shaders.
11Coming from another toolTouchDesigner, Notch, Max, Reaktor, Resolume and more.In the app
21QuestionsThe short answers to what people ask most.In the app
Get help

Stuck? Reach out.

Report a bug

This gathers your version, your system details and the graph into a folder you can attach.

$ kinematic report --graph show.kin

Questions

The FAQ covers files, performance, audio, DMX, Python and more. It is in the app, under Help.

Reach out

Questions, ideas, or something you made.

Free and open. Yours, forever.

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

Download for macOS 0.5.0