CritterKiln
Draw a shape and it puffs up into a soft 3D critter. Sculpt it, pose it, give it eyes, colors and a hat, then make it move. Free, in your browser.
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Draw it
Pick a part and draw its outline. It puffs up like a balloon. On a middle part, draw one half and it mirrors to the other side.
Grow and pose it
Start from a body plan, then add, extend or split parts. Drag the orange handles to bend joints and the purple ones to slide parts. Joins between parts smooth over on their own.
Dress it up
Choose colors and materials (clay, felt, toy, glass, knitted, stone, metal and more), add markings like spots and stripes, give it eyes, and attach stuff like hats.
Make it move
Give any part a looping motion (circle, step, swing, figure 8, breathe) and drag its path right in the view. Export the loop as a GIF.
Two ways to work
- Guided walks you through seven steps: Body plan, Grow & pose, Draw, Face, Color, Dress up, Show off.
- Free opens everything at once in three tabs: Shape, Look and Animate.
Your creations save in the browser. Use File to save or open .creature files and share them. The app works on phones and offline too.
Run it locally
You need Node.js 22 or newer.
npm install
npm run dev # http://localhost:5173
npm run build # type-check and build into dist/
Built with three.js, TypeScript and Vite. Every push to main deploys to GitHub Pages.
