Templates

Every template is a complete PopCraft file: its pages, styles, brand colours, motion and sound. Opening one makes a new file of your own; the template is never changed. Templates open in the mode they were made for, so an animated one opens in Animate and a game UI kit opens as a prototype.

Find a template

1. On Home, click New, then File.
2. Pick a kind in the rail on the left, or type in the search field at the top: it searches names, descriptions and tags across every kind.
3. Click a template to see it larger, then Use (the button names it).

Lottie-ready narrows the list to templates that export cleanly as Lottie.

Anime shorts

Five short animated scenes in an anime style, each a composition of several shots with effects and music: Duel at Dusk, Morning Light, Neon Rain, Starlight transformation and Titan Launch. Search "anime", or find them under Motion.

1. 1.Click New, then File0:00
2. 2.Search for “anime”0:02
3. 3.Pick one, then Use0:03
4. 4.Press Space to play it0:04

Description

On Home, New then File opens the new file gallery. “anime” is typed in its search, which lists the five anime shorts; Anime short: Neon Rain is picked and opened with Use. It opens in Animate and Space plays it: the rain falls and the title comes in.

1. Click New, then File, and type anime in the search.
2. Pick one and click Use.
3. Press Space to play it. The titles are text and the colours are brand colours: change them like any others.

Music videos

Seven visualizers and lyric videos with PopCraft's own music (made in code, free to use): Lo-fi loop visualizer, EDM drop teaser, Synthwave tunnel visualizer, Hip-hop lyric video, Indie spectrum poster, Podcast audiogram and Festival lineup reveal. Everything in them follows the sound, so replacing the track with your own makes them follow yours. See Audio-reactive motion.

1. 1.Click New, then File0:00
2. 2.Search for “music video”0:02
3. 3.Pick one, then Use0:03
4. 4.Press Space to play it0:05

Description

The new file gallery, searched for “music video”: the music-video templates are listed, each with its own track. Synthwave tunnel visualizer is picked and opened, and Space plays it with its music: the neon tunnel pulses with the bass.

1. Search music video in the gallery and open one.
2. Press Space: the picture moves with the track.
3. To use your own music, drop a file on the timeline's audio lanes and remove the old clip.

Game UI kits

Nine complete game interfaces, from boot screen to victory screen: a match-3 puzzle, a roguelike deckbuilder, a fantasy RPG, a farming sim, a fighting game, a real-time strategy game, an arcade racer, a rhythm game and a sci-fi shooter. They are working prototypes: menus answer the arrow keys, health bars drain and scores count up, all built from variables and logic. There is also a platformer, Mossy Hollow, whose hero and enemies are animated by state machines.

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2. 2.Search for “game”0:02
3. 3.Pick one, then Use0:03

Description

The new file gallery, searched for “game”: the Game UI templates are listed, from a match-3 puzzle to a racing HUD. EMBERFALL, a fantasy RPG interface, is picked and opened on its boot screen; the layers panel lists every screen of the game, from the title and main menu to the victory screen.

1. Search game in the gallery, or pick Game UI in the rail, and open one.
2. Select a screen and click Present to play it with the keyboard.

Photo slideshows

Seven slideshows with music and transitions, for a wedding, a holiday, a trip, a birthday, a baby's first year, a home for sale and a memorial, each a composition of scenes. Swap the pictures for your own and the slideshow keeps its timing and music.

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2. 2.Search for “slideshow”0:02
3. 3.Pick one, then Use0:03
4. 4.Press Space to play it0:05

Description

The new file gallery, searched for “slideshow”: the photo slideshows are listed (wedding, travel, birthday, baby’s first year and more). Baby’s first year slideshow is picked and opened, and Space plays its first scene with the music.

1. Search slideshow in the gallery and open one.
2. Press Space to play it.
3. Select a picture and replace its image with your own; change the titles.

Everything else

The gallery also holds social posts and stories, print (posters, business cards, menus, invitations, résumés), slides, websites and app screens, emails, comics, whiteboards, 3D motion and Lottie animations. Your own templates and your team's are listed with them: ⋯ → Save as template in the editor makes one from the open file.