--- title: "The Creator Terminal manual" description: "Learn Creator Terminal, complete a task, or look up a feature and its keys." canonical: "https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/" last_updated: 2026-10-28 --- # The Creator Terminal manual Learn Creator Terminal, complete a task, or look up a feature and its keys. ## Get started - [Your first animation](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/getting-started.md): install, draw, key, play and export - [Lesson films](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/lessons/): watch the real app ## How-to guides - [Draw a rounded card](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/draw-a-rounded-card.md) - [Crop a layer with a mask](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/crop-a-layer-with-a-mask.md) - [Make a line draw itself](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/make-a-line-draw-itself.md) - [Bring in a headline by word](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/bring-in-a-headline-by-word.md) - [Make a layer turn from one end](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/make-a-layer-turn-from-one-end.md) - [Make a layer move between two poses](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/animate-between-poses.md) - [Slow a move without changing its route](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/slow-a-move.md) - [Bend a move into an arc](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/bend-a-motion-path.md) - [Make a bell wiggle](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/wiggle-a-bell.md) - [Make a row of delayed copies](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/stagger-linked-copies.md) - [Make a confetti burst](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/make-a-confetti-burst.md) - [Use your artwork as particles](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/use-artwork-as-particles.md) - [Bounce particles off a platform](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/bounce-particles-off-a-platform.md) - [Make a button react to a press](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/make-a-button-react-to-a-press.md) - [Ask the copilot to change a layer](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/ask-the-copilot-to-change-a-layer.md) - [Compare animation takes from agents](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/compare-animation-takes.md) - [Export a GIF for Slack](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/export-a-gif-for-slack.md) - [Export a transparent video](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/export-a-transparent-video.md) - [Export a dotLottie for a player](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/export-a-dotlottie-for-a-player.md) - [Change an animation’s size and length](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/resize-an-animation.md) - [Choose the editor’s colours](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/choose-interface-colours.md) - [Watch an animation without panels](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/watch-without-panels.md) - [Make an animation from your repository](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/how-to/make-a-repository-animation.md) ## Reference - [Install](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/install.md): the install line, what goes where, ffmpeg, updates, uninstalling - [Terminals](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/terminals.md): how the stage is drawn in each terminal, and the app's own window - [Home and the screen](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/home-and-screen.md): home, the stage, the rail and the score, documents and tabs, the command palette, interface themes, settings, usage stats - [Editing](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/editing.md): selecting, moving, scaling and turning, snapping, the anchor, editing paths, combining shapes and their modifiers, the mouse - [Layers](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/layers.md): every kind of layer, and its pages: - [Shapes and drawing tools](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/layers/drawing.md) - [Fills, strokes, effects and masks](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/layers/appearance.md) - [Layouts and parenting](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/layers/arranging.md) - [Text and fonts](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/layers/text.md) - [Files, images and pastes](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/layers/importing.md) - [Sound, music and video](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/layers/media.md) - [Tokens, themes and charts](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/layers/data.md) - [Materials (Ink and Soft among them)](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/layers/materials.md) - [Animating](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/animating.md): keys, the score, spans, eases, the graph editor, motion paths, presets, motion sketch, loops and preview - [Behaviours](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/behaviours.md): motion over your keys (wiggle, spring, loop, follow and more), and After Effects expressions made editable - [Repeats](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/repeats.md): editable arrangements, linked copies, stagger and fields - [Particles](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/particles.md): emitters throwing confetti, snow, smoke or a layer of yours, and their settings - [States](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/states.md): state machines, and trying them - [Rigs](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/rigs.md): joysticks, sliders, pose editing, live poses and limbs with draggable goals - [Examples](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/examples.md): new documents, and the examples that come with Creator Terminal - [Capturing your app](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/capture.md): your product's screens and components as layers to animate, and a capture again animating to its new look - [Templates and styles](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/templates-and-styles.md): animations from a repository's data, and films in a style - [The copilot](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/copilot.md): Claude Code, Codex or Kimi Code beside you; zen; references and notes - [Other AI apps](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/mcp.md): the copilot's tools in Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or OpenCode - [Agents](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/agents.md): ideas built by agents, and films - [Export](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/export.md): every format - [LottieFiles](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/lottiefiles.md): your workspaces, saving versions back - [Creator sync](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/creator-sync.md): editing a LottieFiles Creator document live - [Keys](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/keys.md): every key - [Command line](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/cli.md): every command and flag, with examples - [Troubleshooting](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/troubleshooting.md): display, fonts, exports, sharing and updates - [Not yet](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/not-yet.md): what it doesn't do yet ## Concepts - [Glossary](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/concepts/glossary.md): the app’s words and their equivalents in other tools - [Ways to connect layers](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/concepts/connecting-layers.md) - [Graphs, paths and spacing](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/concepts/graphs-paths-and-spacing.md) - [The three kinds of loop](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/concepts/animation-loops.md) - [Why particles become keys](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/concepts/particle-baking.md) - [Motion and interactivity](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/concepts/motion-and-interactivity.md) - [Choosing the copilot or agents](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/concepts/copilot-and-agent-takes.md) - [Saving, exporting and publishing](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/concepts/saving-exporting-and-publishing.md) - [What players draw](https://terminal.lottiefiles.com/docs/concepts/what-players-draw.md)