Blender animation, drawn by hand
Motion Painter turns strokes in Blender's 3D Viewport into editable object animation. Draw a path, choose a motion brush, and direct movement with the immediacy of sketching, without manually building every keyframe.
Watch Motion Painter turn viewport gestures into controlled, art-directable animation.
Motion Painter brings path creation, targeting, motion design, rotation, and output control into one visual workflow inside Blender.
Drag to create a fluid freehand guide or click connected segments with Motion Polygon. Project strokes on the view plane, at the 3D Cursor, or directly across visible surfaces.
Motion Paint / Live preview
Start with a focused motion preset, then tune ordinary settings to make it yours. Save custom brushes in the blend file, update them, and copy or paste settings between paths.
Motion brushes / Multi-object flow
Rail mode places motion directly along your guide. Forcefield mode treats the stroke as a flowing influence, with pull, push, orbit, wave, jitter, slowdown, bend handling, and turn controls.
Motion modes / Forcefield
Stack multiple guides and decide how they interact. Takeover lets a higher path assume control over a smooth frame range; Add combines its flow with motion from lower paths.
Stack + blend / Layered motion
Automatically pick nearby objects from the start of a stroke in screen or 3D space. Add and exclude selected targets at any time, then select every target again with one click.
Targets / Group control
Generate orientation from the final motion using Follow Direction, Look At Path, or Spin. Blend from the original pose, preserve an offset, bank into turns, and choose the exact local axes.
Rotation / Directional motion
Create a linked Blender 3D Curve from a guide, or build motion from a selected curve. Select paths in the viewport, erase control points, rename guides, change colors, reorder the stack, and toggle output previews.
Curves + editing / Path stack
Control speed, duration, spacing, smoothing, draw-speed influence, and turn velocity. Simplify generated location and rotation keys within chosen tolerances, or keep the keys and remove the guide when the motion is final.
Clean output / Editable keys
Object animation is the foundation. Future modes will expand the same paint-first workflow into character motion and Blender's physics systems.
Paint paths for Blender objects, layer influences, generate rotation, and keep the final animation editable from guides or F-curves.
01Extend the painting workflow to rigs, making it possible to direct bones and character motion with drawn gestures instead of object-only targets.
02Connect painted motion with Blender rigid bodies, force fields, and related physics systems for art-directed simulations that still feel alive.
03Motion Painter is currently a beta product offered at a 33% Early Access discount. Please purchase with the expectations below in mind.
This is an Early Access release under active development. You may encounter bugs, rough edges, or workflows that change as the addon improves. If you find a bug, join the Motion Painter Discord to report it, share feedback, and help shape the next update.
it is developed using an AI-assisted workflow, directed and quality-tested by an experienced Blender artist.
The -33% discount reflects the Early Access stage. Your Early Access purchase includes future updates, including later versions that may be sold without this discount. By purchasing now, you are choosing to use Motion Painter while it is still being refined and accepting that some bugs may be present.
Motion design, at the speed of a stroke
Motion Painter makes object animation feel immediate, visual, and playful while keeping the control needed for serious Blender work.