Drawing your own shape in the Canvas studio
Draw a freehand shape, edit its points, and animate it point by point.
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Follow the workflow, one action at a time
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Overview
So far you've been placing shapes from the Object Library. This tutorial covers the other way to get a shape into Manim Studio: drawing one by hand in the Canvas studio, then animating every point of it at once.
The Canvas studio is a separate workspace from the main scene editor — anything you draw here is tagged to its own space and never appears in your regular scene, and vice versa. Think of it as a second, independent project living alongside your main one. See Editor vs. Canvas for the full reasoning if you're curious why they're split.
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