Tutorials

Using Animate

How to change — Light to Dark Mode

Anvil Animate — Basic Shapes & Tools

Shape/Text & Animation/Keyframing

Step by step

Groups: build a car, animate it as one

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What runs it

A laptop or desktop

Animate is built around a mouse or trackpad, keyboard shortcuts, and drag and drop. It is not made for phones or tablets.

A current browser

Chrome, Edge, or Safari from the last two years. Chrome and Safari record straight to MP4; other browsers save WebM. There is nothing to install.

Any recent machine

An Apple Silicon Mac or a Windows laptop with integrated graphics from the last five years handles editing fine. Your work autosaves in the browser, so keep using the same one.

Recording is the heavy job

Recording captures the canvas live at your screen's full resolution, up to 60 frames a second. On an older or fanless machine it can drop frames. Plug in and close other tabs before you press record. Still images export at 4K on any machine.