KeyFlow is an animation toolkit built by an animator for animators that offers 74+ tools. Highlights include:
- World Lock – kills foot slide after you travel a cycle with the COG, and keeps the vertical bounce.
- Temp IK – pin the fingertip and pose the whole finger by dragging it.
- No pop – it solves to your exact FK pose, and removing it keeps your work.
- Mirror – works from any pose. No setup, no naming rules to follow.
- Merge Anim Layers – flattens your layers without changing a single frame.
The toolkit is priced at $79 for an individual license, $499 for a license with 10 seats and $999 for 30 seats. A free trial version is available. Watch some videos on YouTube and visit Gumroad for more.
Why give KeyFlow a try (even if you already use animBot, Animo, aTools…)
Hi everyone,
I’m the animator behind KeyFlow.
First thing: animBot, Animo, TheKeyMachine, aTools and Animseeds are all great tools, and a lot of us learned to work faster thanks to them. If one of them already fits the way you animate, that’s a good place to be.
I started KeyFlow because I wanted a few things done differently on my own shots. If any of these sound like you, it might be worth half an hour:
You’d rather click less. A lot of KeyFlow tools do in one click what usually takes a few steps, and they try to get it right the first time so you’re not cleaning up after them. Select one control and one click grabs every control in that rig, or only the animated ones.
You like a quiet interface. The bar is just icons. Options live on a right-click, out of the way until you need them. Nothing big sitting on top of your viewport.
You like to see a tool before you click it. Hover over any button and a short clip plays on a real rig showing what it does. No guessing what a three-letter icon means.
You only want the tools you actually use. You build your own bar and hide the rest. Your layout and hotkeys stay put when you update.
Your studio machines are offline. You activate once with a small license file, and after that KeyFlow never needs to connect to anything. No logins, no online checks.
You work on a desktop and a laptop. One license covers two computers, and the download includes Maya 2024, 2026 and 2027.
Two tools I use on every shot: World Lock, which cleans up foot sliding after you move the COG through a cycle and keeps the bounce. And Temp IK for fingers: pin the fingertip and pose the whole finger by dragging it.
It’s Windows only for now.
Honestly, the easiest way to decide is to try it. There’s a free 30-day trial, the full thing, no card needed. If it doesn’t click with you, no hard feelings, and I’d really like to hear why.