Short Film · Oct 11, 2026
A short animation film made with MotionGfx
A short animation film made with MotionGfx by shoin_cat. Watch the short film video and visit the original Reddit post.
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Two tiny wizard cats who solve a Rubik's cube with magic. It's a short film with no words, made in Bevy and MotionGfx does all of the animating. How MotionGfx fits in: \- A single timeline for the whole film. One builder function composes all 11 beats into one track, compiled once. Because MotionGfx bakes start and end values up front, any moment can be sampled in any order. That is what makes scrubbing in both directions free. \- Declarative tweens on component fields. About 190 act calls target cat joint poses, light intensities, fog, depth of field, colour grading and the sky. \- Composition with ord\_chain and ord\_all. Sequential and parallel fragments nest into scenes. A single cube turn, for example, runs a paw flick, an energy ring and a sparkle trail together. \- Custom interpolation with act\_builder. Each cubie follows an orbital arc around its layer, using .with\_interp() on a closure that maps the current transform to the next. A straight lerp would cut through the…
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