Docs

Example scenes

Finished scenes, each built round one part of Motion so you can see it working, and each a wallpaper in its own right. They come with Studio: open one from the start page, under Start from one of Motion's, and Studio makes you a copy to take apart and change. Each page here says what to look at, which panels to open, and where the docs explain it. They're all free for anything (CC0), and everything in them, pictures, models and sounds, was made for Motion, so you can reuse any of it.

Colour and light

• First LightA glowing beacon in three turning rings over still water, under curtains of aurora that brighten with the music.Intermediate8 layersNo script
• Nebula DriftGradients, a nebula and stars, drifting at three depths round a warm magenta heart.Beginner8 layersNo script
• Two GalaxiesA rose and an ice-blue spiral falling into each other, their light mixed by blend modes.Intermediate10 layersNo script
• Rain on GlassA city's lights behind a rain-streaked window, from a few plain layers and a stack of effects.Intermediate9 layersNo script
• MoltenA field of lava from above, crust and glowing cracks and rivers, built from material nodes.Intermediate3 layersNo script

Particles and 3D

• Solar WindA particle system of hot trails spiralling into a vortex, bursting on the beat.Beginner5 layersNo script
• Lantern SeaPaper lanterns rising over a dusk sea, in 3D particles and point lights.Beginner4 layersNo script
• Jelly BloomJellyfish from a 3D model with its own animations.Beginner3 layersNo script
• Vent GardenBubbles and spores rising from deep-sea vents, as objects from templates with physics.Advanced13 layersA script

Time, sound and the world

• PulseA heart that beats with yours over aurora and mountains, from your watch's heart rate and material nodes.Advanced4 layersA script
• Valley HoursA valley that turns rose at dawn, green by day, ember at dusk and starlit at night, by your clock.Intermediate5 layersA script
• SnowfallMoonlit snow over pines, with the hour, the minute and the date in rings of frost.Intermediate14 layersNo script
• ResonanceRings of light the music's spectrum, bass and beat drive.Advanced5 layersA script
• Rain HarbourA neon harbour in the rain with its own sound, mixed on buses, and a bell its script rings.Advanced10 layersA script

Logic and interaction

• ConstellationsA TypeScript script that joins the stars you place into named constellations.Advanced12 layersA script
• Storm FrontLightning lighting the clouds from inside, to a looping timeline of keys and easing.Intermediate11 layersNo script
• Ink PoolInk on milk that the pointer stirs, drops and drags.Beginner5 layersNo script
• Glow TideA bioluminescent shore that lights up wherever the pointer moves, clicks and drags.Intermediate9 layersNo script

Pictures, pages and screens

• Kelp ForestA kelp forest drawn by the scene's own web page, talking with its script.Intermediate7 layersA script
• Long HorizonMountains as wide as three screens that still make a whole picture on one.Intermediate12 layersNo script

Guides: build one yourself

Each builds one small, working thing in Studio, step by step, with the settings, the code and the node graph you need.

• Beat pulseglow orbs that flare on every beat of the music, as a script and as a node graph.GuideBeginnerA script
• Click ripplesthe wallpaper ripples where you click, and a glowing ring grows from the spot.GuideBeginnerA script
• Heart rate scenelights that pulse faster and warm from blue to red as your heart rate rises, read from a watch.GuideIntermediateA script
• Drifting clouds from nodesa background of clouds built from seven shader nodes, with a speed offered on the desktop, and the GLSL it comes to.GuideIntermediateA node graph
• Mood buttons from a web pagea web project whose buttons change the scene's colours, talking with the scene's script both ways.GuideAdvancedA script