Popular Questions

• How to Export your Animation - Share your animation with friends, or teachers.
• How to Open a Brushninja file - Loading a file.
• How to Make Sure Your Animation is Fast to Edit - Keeping Editing Fast.
• How to Save your Animation - Save your animation to be reopened later.
• Colours - Fill and Line colours, and how to pick custom colours.

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Keyboard Shortcuts

Tools

• 1 - Use the Select tool. This allows you to move, scale, and rotate objects.
• 2 - Select the Paint Brush.
• 3 - Select the Image tool.
• 4 - Select the Shape tool.
• 5 - Select text tool.
• 6 - Select the Line tool.
• Left arrow - Nudge object left 2px.
• Left arrow + Shift - Nudge object left 15px.
• Right arrow - Nudge object right 2px.
• Right arrow + Shift - Nudge object right 15px.
• Up arrow - Nudge object up 2px.
• Up arrow + Shift - Nudge object up 15px.
• Down arrow - Nudge object down 2px.
• Down arrow + Shift - Nudge object down 15px.
• Up arrow + Ctrl or Up arrow + Command - Bring selected object forward.
• Down arrow + Ctrl or Down arrow + Command - Send selected object backward.
• Up arrow + Shift + Ctrl or Up arrow + Shift + Command - Bring selected object to the front.
• Down arrow + Shift + Ctrl or Down arrow + Shift + Command - Send selected object to the back.

File Actions

• Ctrl + z or Command + z - undo.
• Ctrl + Shift + z or Command + Shift + z or Ctrl + y or Command + y - redo.
• Ctrl + s or Command + s - Save your animation.
• Ctrl + e or Command + e - Export your animation.
• Ctrl + o or Command + o - Open a saved animation.

Animation Actions

• Space - Play animation.
• o - Toggle onion skinning on and off.
• n - New frame.
• d - Duplicate current frame.
• f - Set the currently selected frame as the first frame in the animation.
• Shift + Delete or Shift + Backspace - Delete the current frame.

Frame Actions

• Delete or Backspace - Delete the currently selected object(s).
• Ctrl + c or Command + c - Copy the currently selected object(s).
• Ctrl + v or Command + v - Paste the content from the clipboard.
• Ctrl + x or Command + x - Cut the currently selected objects(s).
• Ctrl + a or Command + a - Select all objects on the current frame.
• Ctrl + g or Command + g - Group the currently selected objects into a single object.
• Ctrl + u or Command + u - Ungroup the currently object into individual objects.
• j - Select the previous frame in the timeline.
• k - Select the next frame in the timeline.

• r - Clear the current frame.