Desktop app for Windows
A physics board for video commentary.
Paste a PNG, grab it anywhere, and it swings, falls and flies like a real object. Record the window with OBS. What you do live is the take.
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Grab a letter anywhere. Press Space while you hold it to throw. Drag a letter. Tap Throw while you hold it.
3D Studio · I
Open a Minecraft skin or a glTF model, turn it to the angle you want and pose its limbs. Enter freezes it onto the board as an image. Shift+Enter splits it into parts hinged at the joints, so the arms still swing when you pick it up.
J turns the rig into a ragdoll. Back on the board, Alt and the scroll wheel still turn it in 3D.
Text · T Pen · D
The Text tool types straight onto the board. Shift+T breaks a line into words or letters, and each one drops with its own weight.
The pen draws over everything, for circling a detail or putting an X over someone's eyes. Shift+D turns a drawing into an object that falls like the rest.
Lights
Switch the lights on and the board goes dark except around the lamps you place. A lamp is an object, so you can drag it while recording.
Models from the Studio carry normal maps. Light one from the left and its left side brightens. A sun gives the whole scene one direction.
Camera · scroll wheel
Scroll to zoom the camera. It moves on a spring, so a quick scroll overshoots a little and settles, and the recording gets the same motion.
Zooming the view with − and = only changes what you see, so the panels around the frame stay out of the shot.
Record mode · Tab
Tab hides every panel, handle and hover outline. What stays is the 1920×1080 frame and your cursor, drawn large so it still reads in the video.
Kukla runs in its own window, so OBS captures it cleanly and no browser shortcut closes it halfway through a take.
They follow Blender where they can: G moves, R rotates, S scales. Your other hand stays on the keyboard while the mouse performs. F1 lists all of them inside the app.
No key for that on this list. The app's F1 panel has the rest.
Then $24, once. No subscription.
$24one time, USD
Purchases are final. Use the trial to make sure Kukla fits.
The installer is not code-signed yet, so the first time you open it, SmartScreen shows a blue warning. Click More info, then Run anyway. After that it installs like anything else, and it updates itself.
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. The installer is about 4 MB.
Kukla is a board you perform on. You paste images onto it, grab them with the mouse, and they behave like objects with weight: they hang from the point you hold, swing when you move, and keep their momentum when you let go. OBS records the window. There is no timeline to edit afterwards, because the take is what you did live.
I made it for the short analysis scenes in my own videos, so the animation happens while I talk instead of in the editor afterwards.
Kukla 1.0 for Windows