Layers

Layer Types

Layers in the Timeline#

Animation Layer#

Contains drawings with the visual contents of your animation.

Background Layer#

Adds a solid background color to the animation.

Audio Layer#

Allows you to add audio clips to the timeline.

Video Layer#

Allows you to add videos to the timeline. You usually don't interact with these directly but via a symbol in an animation layer instead.

Transform Layer#

Can be used to apply the same animated transformation to multiple layers at once by adding a new coordinate system to the transform hierarchy.

Camera Layer#

Defines the visible region of the animation during export and can be moved around like any other layer.

Group Layer#

Group layers are mainly used for organizational purposes, to collapse multiple layers in the layer list. However, they also provide blending options which turn the layer into a pre-composite group.

Group layers can be placed both in the timeline and inside of drawings.

Drawing Layers#

Drawing layers cannot be placed directly in the timeline but must always be added inside a drawing.

Pixel Layer#

The drawing destination for pixel brushes. These layers store their contents as a raster-image.

Vector Layer#

Vector layers store vector brush strokes. As opposed to pixel layers these layers do not have a resolution limit.

Path Layer#

Path layers are used to add vector shapes to your animation. Each path layer can contain exactly one shape.

Text Layer#

Text layers are used to add text to your animation.

Symbol Layer #

Symbol layers are used to add other animation clips to a timeline. Referencing a different clip through a symbol layer allows you to reuse your animations efficiently.