BrushVector · Draw. Rig. Animate. All in one canvas.

Draw & vector tools

Carve your shapes, stroke by stroke

In continuous pen mode you never stop drawing. Each new stroke adds to the shape or cuts away from it, with a live preview and a ghost of the shape you're carving against, so a silhouette emerges the way it would from a block of clay.

Continuous-draw carving: add, subtract, intersect, exclude on the fly
Sketch freehand or place precise Bézier anchors, it's one running shape either way

Versatile brushes

Draw a shape, make it a brush

Every shape you draw can become a brush of its own. Stamp it along a stroke, mix stamps together, and run a gradient through the colours as you go.

Turn any shape into a stamp brush: stars, notes, leaves, anything you've drawn
Mix multiple stamps in a single stroke, each with its own colour or a shared gradient
Gradient colour blending on every brush: ink, calligraphy and sketch too

Selection effects

Gradient maps, blend modes and filter effects

Remap a selection's colours with a gradient, run a filter over it, or change how it blends with the layers underneath.

Gradient maps repaint a selection's entire palette in one move
Six filters: Pixel, Duotone, Painterly, Chromatic, Cel and Ink outline
The full set of blend modes, from Multiply to Luminosity

Canvas tools

Grids for every angle

Draw with adjustable square, isometric or perspective guidelines, with grid snapping that keeps you on point.

Adjustable square, isometric and perspective grids
Snap to grid as you draw, move and transform

Bone rigging

Pose it like a puppet

Build a bone armature, bind your artwork with smooth skinning, and pose with forward or inverse kinematics, then refine exactly how each joint bends.

IK and FK posing, with bone lengths preserved as you swing limbs
Weight painting with a live influence heatmap and a smooth tool
Bend stops, lockable pins, and stretchy bones for tails and squash
Grow a rig incrementally: add bones and art without starting over

Animation tools

Animate like a pro

Set the poses that matter and let BrushVector fill in the rest. Swing a bone and follow-through is generated for you. The tail whips, settles and loops on its own.

Automatic follow-through generation with looping, no extra keys needed
Movable floors, walls and ceilings for your rig to collide with
Onion skinning and motion path visualisation to judge timing at a glance

Pose library

Save a pose, strike it again

Capture any pose your rig can make and keep it in a library. Apply it, or apply and key it, in one tap.

Set a pose once, reuse it across your whole animation
Apply & Key drops the pose straight onto the timeline
Perfect for lip sync: save phoneme mouth shapes and click through the dialogue

Particle emitters

Fire at your fingertips

Bring your animations to life with built in particle emitters and apply filter effects to pixel flames, smoke, trails and more.

Use any shape you've drawn as a particle
Attach emitters to bones so they follow the motion of your rig
Apply filter effects, including pixel / retro rendering

Exports

Export everywhere

Export your animations straight to video, GIF or sprite sheet, and stills to SVG or PNG.

Everything you need to
draw, rig and animate