A Motion Pose is a short tween from wherever the layer is right now (From) to a look you set (To). A sentence fires it: hover, click, press. It is not a sequence and it does not live on the timeline.
From is not a saved snapshot. If the layer later moves — layout, scroll, a repeater copy — To still starts from that new place.
01Adding a pose
Two doors:
- Pick a recipe in + Interaction — Lift on hover, Grow on hover, Shrink on press. The recipe writes the sentence and turns Motion Pose on.
- Or add Motion Pose from + Add on the layer, then write a sentence whose verb is Motion Pose.
The card has two jobs. When at the top writes or opens the sentence. To below is the change — X, Y, Z, scale, rotate.
02To
Relative (on by default) treats To as a change from now: position is Δ, scale is ×.
Above everything (To) draws the layer — or that one repeater copy — on top while it is in To, then puts it back.
One at a time is for a repeater or Virtual Repeat. Click one copy and it plays To; the copy that was open plays From and goes home.
Focus can also slide the layer toward a center. X and Y on To still apply — they are the extra offset after that slide. Z is always there (depth / pop).
| Focus | What happens |
|---|---|
| None | The layer stays where To says |
| Parent center | It also moves toward the middle of its parent, then X / Y |
| Stage center | It also moves toward the middle of the artboard it is in, then X / Y |
Duration and Easing are the tween.
Preview plays To from the current place. Reset puts it back to where it was when To started.
03A grid card to the middle
This is the pose this card is for. One card in a grid grows and sits in the centre; the others stay. Click another and the first goes home.
- Draw the card. Add Virtual Repeat (or Data Repeater) and set a grid.
- + Add › Motion Pose on that same layer.
- When › Click toggle.
- Focus › Stage center. Relative on. Scale ×
1.2(or more). Z if you want it to pop. - Above everything (To) on — the open card draws on top of the grid.
- One at a time on — only one card is open.
- Enter play and click a copy.
From is each copy's own slot, so a corner card and a centre card both travel from their cell.
04What it is for
Use a pose when the motion is one beat: here → there, then back. Not a film.
| You want | Pose |
|---|---|
| A grid or gallery card that grows into the middle | Focus › Stage center · One at a time · Click toggle |
| A button that lifts on hover | Hover in / out · Scale × 1.06 · a little Y Δ up |
| A press that shrinks | When Press → To, Press End → From · Scale × 0.94 |
| A tile that pops above its neighbours | Above everything · Z · hover or click |
| A cursor that grows over a hit target | Pose on the cursor layer; see Custom cursor |
| A row of repeated icons, each reacting alone | Pose on the repeated layer — no One at a time |
Do not use a pose when the motion has several keys, a curve you must edit, or a flag. That is a sequence.
05Repeaters
Put the pose on a single layer — one object moves.
Put it on a layer with Virtual Repeat or Data Repeater — each copy has its own pose. Hover or click one copy; the others stay put unless One at a time is on.
06The sentence
The pose does nothing until a sentence fires it. On the card, When is that sentence:
- Hover in / out writes Hover → To and Hover End → From, then opens Sentences.
- Click toggle writes Click → Toggle.
- Custom in Sentences… opens the Sentences tab so you can use Press, a signal, scroll — any trigger.
If the pose is already wired, the row shows chips such as Hover → To. Click one to jump to that sentence.
The verb is Motion Pose. The sentence names which pose to go to: To, From, or Toggle. Duration on the action overrides the pose default.
07With keyframes
A pose and a sequence can share a layer. The pose is a one-shot offset on top of whatever the timeline is doing at that moment. If both fight over the same channel (Scale, Y…), the pose wins while it is playing, then the timeline takes over again.
A custom cursor that grows over a button is a pose on the cursor layer; see Custom cursor.
08In 3D
A pose works on a 3D mesh too — Relative X/Y/Z, Rotate and Scale move it for real. Focus and Above everything are 2D-canvas ideas and stay hidden on a 3D layer.
Clicked photo (3D gallery) is a separate Focus option that appears only on a mesh with Clones → Gallery photos. Pick it and the card's To/From grid disappears — this pose does one thing: To brings the clicked (or hovered) photo forward, From puts every photo back. Scale and Lift for the focused photo live on the Gallery block, not on this card; Duration and Easing here are the pose's.
Wire it the same way as any other pose:
- Click toggle — click a photo to focus it; click the same one again to put it back. Clicking a different photo always jumps to that one — a gallery never toggles the wrong card off.
- Hover in / out — the photo under the pointer comes forward while hovered.
The + Click to focus (Motion Pose) button on the Gallery block sets this up in one click.
09Shortcut recap
| Add | + Add › Motion Pose · or a hover recipe in + Interaction |
| Card | Preview · Reset · Above everything · One at a time · Focus › Stage center |
| Sentence | Hover / Click → Motion Pose → To / From / Toggle |