Ideas

The Ideas menu is a project planner for building scenes: give names, tag themes, list the pieces you need, and fill slots one by one. Ideas is the last menu on the menu bar on the home screen and in both editors. The menu has three actions: This idea (shows Start an idea… when no project is active) opens the current planner, All ideas… opens the list of all projects, and New idea… starts a blank project.

Starting an idea

If no project is active, the first menu action shows Start an idea…. Select it, type a name, and select Start it. Or, ＋ New idea (the full sheet) skips the prompt and opens the full New idea window: name field, theme tags (type text, press Enter), a face picker, and a list of the pieces you need. Select Start now to make it the active project; select Pocket it to save it to the list for later. The Start here row on the Today tab also has a New idea button.

Inside an idea

The planner opens as a side drawer. Select ✕ in the header, click outside the drawer, or press Escape to close it.

Vibe shows a row of theme chips. Select + vibe and type one tag to add it. Select a tag to delete it.

Picture holds one reference image or sketch. Sketch it opens a 2D drawing layer; Add a photo opens the file picker. Select a sketch to keep editing it. Select ✕ to delete the reference.

The piece list shows what you need. Each slot has a kind (Fig, Pattern, Photo, Sky, or Outfit) and a label. Empty Fig or Pattern slots show two actions: Pick it takes one you already have from your library , and Make it opens a blank one of that kind. Free tier accounts at the limit (5 figs or 5 patterns) get the Free tier limit reached. message after selecting Make it. Pieces made this way fill the slot on their own and take the slot’s label as their name if left unnamed. Photo, Sky, and Outfit slots have a Got it button to check them off yourself. Select ✕ to clear a filled slot or delete an empty slot. Select + Add to add a new slot: type the label, then pick the kind.

Shots is a storyboard planner. Draw a shot opens the sketch layer and hides the planner drawer. Next shot saves the current sketch and clears the canvas for the next frame; Done saves the sketch and brings back the planner drawer; ✕ Never mind brings back the planner drawer without saving the sketch. Write a shot takes up to 140 characters of text, in a box that wraps on three lines, with a count under it (e.g., 96 of 140). A longer paste is cut at the end of a whole word. The planner and the Camera’s shot hint show a shot’s first three lines. Select the text to edit it. Selecting ✕ on a shot asks you to confirm: Drop shot 2? with Cancel and Drop this shot buttons.

Shooting the shots

If the project has at least one storyboard frame, the Shots section shows Shoot these (it needs the project’s scene first). This opens the scene, sets the Camera to Clip mode, and fills the clip with placeholder shots, one for each storyboard frame. Placeholders show their number and sketch. The first placeholder in the clip is selected for you. Frame the view and select + New shot: the selected placeholder is replaced with what the view shows. The status bar shows the next frame to shoot.

Back in the planner, shots that are done show a checkmark in place of their number, and the button changes to Keep shooting. Adding new shots to the planner and selecting Keep shooting adds new placeholders to the end of the clip. Deleting a shot from the planner and selecting Keep shooting removes its placeholder and renumbers the rest. Finished shots stay; deleting a shot from the planner does not remove shots you already filled in the clip. See the shot's camera for how placeholder shots work and the Storyboard overlay.

Add to idea on any record page puts the piece in the first empty slot of the same kind, or adds a new filled slot if there are no empty slots. If no project is active, it starts a new project with the piece’s name. Claiming a daily download offers ✦ Add to idea when the active project has an empty slot of that kind. A scene card shows Add to idea only if the active project has no scene yet.

Projects started from a design challenge fill in with the challenge’s details: character portrait, short description, preset theme tags, slots for the pieces you need, the scene’s mood, and the storyboard frames you need.

Finishing

Start the scene starts a blank scene with the project’s name. After that, the button changes to Open the scene. (Projects from fig challenges show Open the fig.) Free tier accounts at the limit (3 scenes) get the Free tier limit reached. message after selecting it.

Finished. asks Really finished?; select it again to finish. The project closes and shows what to do next, and it stays in All ideas… under Finished, marked Finished with the date. For scene projects, Make a spinning video opens the Camera. If the scene is open in the editor, Share it with everyone opens the community share sheet. Done closes the card.

Set aside saves the project for later and clears the planner; find set-aside projects in Ideas › All ideas…. Delete changes the button to Delete item?; selecting it again before it resets deletes the project. Pieces made for the project are not deleted.

All ideas… opens the list of all projects, with In progress | Finished at the top. Entries show Fresh or Challenge badges. A finished project has Pick it up again, which makes it current again, and Delete. With none finished, the Finished side says Nothing finished yet. Ideas you finish stay here. Select an entry to make it current and open it. Activate makes the entry the current project and adds the Now mark. Delete takes two taps. ＋ New idea at the top of the list starts a blank project.

When a project is active, the Today tab’s Start here row changes to My idea and shows how many pieces you have so far (e.g., 2/5).