Procedural Nodes

Procedural Nodes is a node editor for procedural motion. Wire a few nodes together — a grid of points, a wave, some noise, a color ramp — and watch a looping animation build in the live preview. When it looks right, add it to your scene as an ordinary layer with real keyframes.

Start from a preset

30 presets cover loaders, level meters, heart-monitor traces, kinetic type, halftones, confetti, orbits and patterns. Every preset is an editable graph, so you can pull it apart to see how it works.

27 nodes in 8 groups

• Signals: time, sine, looping noise and per-shape random values

• Points: grids, rose-curve paths, transforms and warps

• Patterns: masks, repeating patterns, Voronoi cells and text as a shape

• Color: multi-stop ramps and adjustments

• Math: math, remap with easing curves, split, merge and steps

• Timing: echo trails, stagger and fade windows

• Scene: read a layer from your scene

• Draw: dots, polygons and stars, or lines with an optional fill

Use your own layers

Bind a layer from your scene and use its motion, its outline or its silhouette. Turn a logo into halftone dots, run particles along a shape's outline, or have a swarm follow a layer's animated position.

Made for real work

• The preview runs at your scene's size, frame rate and duration.

• Add to scene bakes every frame and thins the keyframes. Adding the same graph again replaces the layer it made last time.

• Select a layer Procedural Nodes made and it offers to open that graph again.

• Save graphs, or export and import them as JSON.

• Undo and redo, Randomize, Tidy, and Cmd/Ctrl+F to find any node.

• Counters show the shape and keyframe totals and warn before a bake gets heavy.