Motion Generation

The Motion tab is where you set prompts, add guides, generate motion, review History, and optionally run Motion Refinement or PostPro.

Read The Panel From Top To Bottom

Account Bar

Handles login, credits, Help, Support, and Logout. If you are signed in, this is also where you refresh or add credits.

Target Armature And Readiness

Choose the character in Target Armature, then read the two readiness lines: one for Rig Setup and one for Local generation.

Generation Box

This is where you choose the prompt mode, task, timing, anchors, History, Motion Refinement, Seed, PostPro, and Advanced settings.

Trajectory Tools And Actions

Waypoints, Dense Path, Generate, Retry, and the bottom status line live below the main generation box.

Motion panel layout

Generations are always local

The actual generation workflow always stays local. Login only adds remote services around it, such as fetching text embeddings for Custom Prompts or transmitting skeletal motion data (not mesh) for Motion Refinement.

Choose A Prompt Mode

Preset Prompts

Preset Prompts is the default local mode:

• No login required
• Uses the bundled 125-preset Kimodo library
• Best starting point for a first generation test

The dropdown shows the preset label. Blaze Puppeteer also resolves the full preset text internally for generation.

Custom Prompts

Custom Prompts is for typed text:

• Requires login
• Fetches remote text embeddings for the typed prompt
• Still runs the actual generation locally on your machine afterward

Keep the wording direct and action-focused. Empty text is not valid.

Prompt mode

Pick A Task

Task	Best for	Main setup
Inbetweening	Filling motion between blocked poses	Anchors + Prompt
Text to Motion	Starting a new clip from a prompt	Prompt + timing
Waypoint	Hitting clear trajectory points on specific frames	Waypoints + timing
Dense Path	Following a designed trajectory through the scene	Dense Path + timing

For Text to Motion, Waypoint, and Dense Path, the panel shows a Timing box with Start, End, Duration, and the Frames / Seconds toggle.

Task-specific controls

Text to Motion

Use Text to Motion when you want to start a new clip from a preset or custom prompt.

Text to Motion Overview

Inbetweening

Use Inbetweening when you want to block important poses and let Blaze Puppeteer fill the motion between them.

Inbetweening Overview

Anchors

Anchors are the guide poses Blaze Puppeteer actually uses during inbetweening. Regular keyframes do not become anchors until you mark them.

Anchor scope	What it constrains
Full Body	The full pose at that frame
Hands	Both hands end effector poses
Feet	Both feet end effector poses
More	Individual left or right hand and foot selection

The anchor editor also includes:

• A current-frame add/remove button
• Clear Anchors
• Badges Visual indicators of anchors in timeline/dope sheet/graph editor/nla editor
• Ghost Visual indicators of anchored poses in the 3D viewport

Badges And Ghost

Control	Modes	What it helps you read
Badges	Off, Bars Only, Current, Hover, Always	Shows anchor indicators in timeline/dope sheet/graph editor/nla editor. Use it to see where anchors exist without opening the anchor editor on every frame.
Ghost	Off, Current, Window, All	Draws anchor pose ghosts in the 3D viewport so you can compare the current pose against stored anchored poses. Window uses the Window frame value to limit nearby ghosts.

Badges and Ghost overlays

anchor badges shown in a timeline editor and anchor ghosts shown in the 3D viewport

Anchor shortcuts

Shortcut	Context	What it does
F	Object Mode, Pose Mode, Dope Sheet, Graph Editor, NLA, Sequencer	Toggle the current-frame anchor using the active anchor scope
D	Object Mode, Pose Mode, Dope Sheet, Graph Editor, NLA	Create or remove a manual hands-and-feet anchor

In the Sequencer, D is reserved for prompt strips instead of manual anchors.

Adding and clearing anchors

Anchor the moments that matter

Start by anchoring the opening and closing poses of the motion. Add more anchors only where the body really needs to hold a pose, land a contact, or change direction in a specific way.

Prompt Sequencer

Prompt Sequencer turns one prompt into timed prompt segments across the generated motion range.

How it works

1. Turn on Multi-Prompt

   Click the three-dot toggle next to the prompt field.

2. Open the Sequencer helper

   Click Prompt Sequencer to open or focus a Sequencer area.

   Linking your scene

   Depending on your Blender version, you may need to link your scene to the Sequecer to be able to use the Prompt Sequencer.

   

   Link scene

3. Create or edit strips

   In the Sequencer:

   • Press D to create a Blaze Puppeteer prompt strip at the current frame
   • Press E to edit the prompt text at the current frame

4. Adjust timing

   Move or trim the strips with normal Sequencer tools. Turn on Color Bands if you want clearer strip feedback in timeline editors.

In Preset Prompts mode, each strip stores a preset choice. In Custom Prompts mode, each strip stores typed text.

Prompt Sequencer strip workflow

Overlaps

Avoid overlapping strips as this may cause unexpected results.

Color Bands

Color Bands adds colored strip markers to timeline/dope sheet/graph editor/nla editors so you can check the ranges of prompt strips without staying inside the Sequencer. It is a visual overlay only.

Prompt strips and Color Bands

the Sequencer with Blaze Puppeteer prompt strips and a timeline editor view with Color Bands showing the same prompt ranges

Waypoints

Waypoints are frame-specific trajectory points (Empties) on the ground plane.

Waypoint Overview

• Click Place to enter waypoint placement mode.
• Left-click in the 3D Viewport to place a waypoint at the current frame.
• Right-click or press Esc to leave placement mode.
• If a waypoint already exists on that frame, the new click replaces it.
• When Waypoint is not the active task, check the Use Waypoints checkbox if you want the placed waypoints layered onto another task.

Waypoint workflow

Dense Path

Dense Path is for continuous trajectory design instead of discrete trajectory points.

Dense Path Overview

1. Start drawing

   Click Draw.

2. Sketch the path

   Draw in the viewport with the Annotation tool Blaze Puppeteer activates for this mode.

3. Finish the stroke

   Right-click or press Esc to finish and convert the stroke into an editable curve.

4. Edit later if needed

   Use Edit to adjust the curve.

When Dense Path is not the active task, check the Use Dense Path checkbox if you want the trajectory curve layered onto another task.

Dense Path workflow

Combining Tasks

Layered Motion Guidance

Layering guides

You can combine tasks by checking the Use Waypoints and Use Dense Path checkboxes when those tasks are not active. This layers the waypoints or dense path onto the active task (like Inbetweening). Note that if the guides for each enabled task are contradictory, the results may be unpredictable.

History And Motion Refinement

Every generated motion is stored in History as actions.

History actions

Action	What it does
Remove Selected	Removes only the selected History entry
Remove Family	Removes the selected root generation and its derived children
Purge Derived	Removes retries and refinements under the selected generation
Clear Armature	Removes all generated History for the current armature

Motion Refinement

Motion Refinement only appears when:

• You are logged in
• A generated History action is selected

Available refinement modes:

Mode	What it does
Variation	Requests alternate versions of the selected source motion
Extend/Shorten	Fits the selected source motion to a new duration
Loop	Makes the selected source motion loop

Variation uses Variant Count. Extend/Shorten uses a target duration in Frames or Seconds.

Refinement uses only the selected generated motion

Motion Refinement works from the selected History entry only. It does not read the current anchors, waypoints, prompt text, prompt strips, Dense Path, or current task setup. This means that the guides will be ignored and the results of motion refinement may not satisfy the same guides as the original motion.

Refining with Variation

Refining with Loop

Seed, PostPro, And Advanced

Below History, Blaze Puppeteer exposes three smaller control areas:

Section	What it is for
Seed	Controls repeatability. Use Use Last to restore the last effective seed, or Random for a fresh variation.
PostPro	Gives quick access to root extraction and unbaking. The PostPro settings that are active when you run Generate, Retry, or Motion Refinement are applied to the newly created motion automatically.
Advanced	Exposes local Kimodo controls such as Denoising Steps, Text CFG, Constraint CFG, and Kimodo Motion Correction.

Advanced settings

Advanced settings are sensitive and can significantly affect the quality of the generated motion. Use them with caution. In most cases you don’t need to change them.

Once a motion exists in History, selecting it restores that motion’s saved PostPro state. The cleanup stays non-destructive, so you can turn options off or adjust them later and Blaze Puppeteer will reprocess or restore the result.

Use Post-Processing for the deeper explanation of what those cleanup options do.

Seed, PostPro, and Advanced controls

the lower control areas for Seed, PostPro, and Advanced settings in the Motion panel

Before You Click Generate

Confirm these four things:

1. The readiness area shows Rig Setup: Ready and a working Local generation: label.
2. Your guides match the active task: anchors for Inbetweening, prompt and timing for Text to Motion, waypoints for Waypoint, or a dense path for Dense Path.
3. The prompt mode, prompt content, and timing match the motion you want.
4. The active armature is the character you intend to animate.

Locked or driven controls

If Blaze Puppeteer detects locked transforms or driven channels on important controls, it can open an Animation Restrictions Detected dialog. Use that prompt to choose Override All or Skip Restricted.

Generate, Retry, Cancel

• Generate runs the current setup.
• Retry reuses the last cached generation setup to create another generated motion.
• Cancel only appears while generation is running.

During generation, the bottom of the panel switches to a progress report so you can see whether Blaze Puppeteer is preparing, processing, or finalizing the result.

Generate and progress feedback