Documentation

Every control, explained — with something to drag.

Reference pages for the whole editor. Each one opens with a live example you can change: move the sliders, watch what happens, then read what the numbers mean. Where the feature is a pure function, the example runs the same code the editor runs — so what you see here is what you get on the canvas.

Start with the Repeater →How a layer is rendered

Start with the model

Two short pages that make the rest of the reference make sense. Read them once and most ordering surprises stop being surprises.

ConceptLive

The layer pipeline

The eight steps every layer goes through, in order, every frame.

ConceptLive

Modifiers vs effects

Two stacks, two jobs — and the test that tells you which one you want.

ConceptLive

Documents, pages, layers

Two stacks, two jobs — and the test that tells you which one you want.

ConceptLive

Time and the playhead

Two stacks, two jobs — and the test that tells you which one you want.

ConceptLive

Anchors and coordinate space

Two stacks, two jobs — and the test that tells you which one you want.

ConceptLive

Colour and gradients

Two stacks, two jobs — and the test that tells you which one you want.

Reference

One page per item, generated from the product's own registries — so the list is always the real list. Sections marked Live have full write-ups and playgrounds; the rest currently list their contents while the pages are written.

Modifiers25Live

Modifiers

Change what a layer IS — its shape, its copies, its geometry — before anything is painted.

Drivers15Live

Drivers

Animate a property with a rule instead of a keyframe. Set it once and it runs forever.

Effects36Live

Effects

Change how a layer LOOKS after it is painted — shadows, glows, blurs, colour, grain.

Shaders16Live

Shaders

GPU material passes: glass, chrome, foil, halftone, oil paint, and a node graph to build your own.