// I just deleted the original post by accident so i will post it again here 
Also does someone know if I can edit my posts?
Hi everyone,
I wanted to share something that might spark some ideas for the Penpot community — especially for anyone who’s ever wished the animation and motion design side felt a bit more… alive.
There’s a motion design tool called Phase (https://phase.com) that, sadly, will be shutting down at the end of August. It’s one of the most intuitive and friendly motion tools I’ve ever used — packed with clever workflows, UI patterns, and features that make complex animation feel like playing with LEGO (but without the pain of stepping on a brick).
I reached out to Nick Budden, the CEO of Phase, on the Phase community forum (https://community.phase.com/), and he’s open to sharing insights with the Penpot community. While the actual codebase is tied up with investors, he’s happy for us to post and discuss Phase publicly so that others can explore it before it’s gone and he agreed on contributing and sharing what the Penpot community needs (he can’t share all of the code, but if there are some solutions we need help with he is eager to help).
Some highlights from Phase that could inspire Penpot’s future animation capabilities:
- Intuitive timeline and easing controls for precise motion.
- Smart component-based animations that scale beautifully across designs.
- Workflow-first interface that minimizes clicks and keeps you in the creative flow.
- Powerful prototyping that feels production-ready, not just for demos.
- Being able to ship production-ready no-code animations and prototypes.
If you’re curious, I’d encourage you to try Phase right away while it’s still live (until last of August). Even a short test could spark ideas for making Penpot’s animation side more powerful and production-ready.
It would be a real shame if the lessons and ideas from Phase disappeared with the service — so I’m sharing this in the hope that some of its DNA can live on in open-source tools like Penpot.
(Won’t take credit for this essay because it was written by ChatGPT — except for the bad jokes, which are proudly my own…)
Thanks for reading and to all developers who might consider adding these features that enable Penpot to ship production-ready no-code animations and prototypes.
