The path can become the whole action.
A missing key selection turns a local check into a long calculation—especially painful when every evaluation crosses constraints, IK, drivers, and a production rig.
Responsive motion paths for Blender
Forgot the keys?
Cloto didn't.
Cloto guards the useful frame range before Blender calculates, then turns the exact result into a faithful proxy that follows complex rigs interactively in real time.
Guarded key rangeComplex-rig friendlyReal-time response
Built forBlender 5.2+
Latest releaseCloto 2.14.1
In developmentCloto 2.14.6
IN MOTION
Animating, made easier.
Less time managing motion paths. More time bringing your characters to life.
WALK CYCLE
Dibane — walk
CHANGE OF DIRECTION
Misela — fall
01 — THE MISSED SELECTION
One forgotten detail should not freeze the flow.
Blender's selected-key range is fast when the right keys are selected. Forget that step and a motion path can cover far more animation than intended.
The useful keys are guarded automatically.
Choose a range around the current frame. Cloto selects only the relevant keys for the selected controls, calculates that interval, and restores your original selection.
02 — FIDELITY WITHOUT THE DRAG
Blender's path at capture. Cloto's speed while posing.
The initial proxy comes directly from Blender's evaluated motion path. From there, Cloto keeps the viewport responsive with a close interactive approximation.
INSIDE BLENDER
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See the arc. Pull the key. Shape the motion.
Exact when captured
Cloto asks Blender to evaluate the guarded range, then copies those native points. The proxy begins as the real Blender result, not a guessed curve.
Interactive in real time
Move the control and the proxy responds immediately. When Auto Key creates a key, or you delete keys in the Dope Sheet, Cloto recalculates only the exact section their neighbors can affect.
No automatic native recalc
Once copied, native paths are cleared from the armature so a leftover path cannot quietly re-enable Blender's costly recalculation.
COMPLEX RIGS
Made for the rigs where waiting hurts most.
Constraints, IK, animated parents, and drivers make exact evaluation expensive. Cloto uses Blender for the authoritative capture and a lightweight world-space response for the interactive moment.
Readable state at a glance
Blue and green mean exact, orange means an interactive approximation, and red tells you the path needs a fresh capture.
Shape the motion from its path
After capture, hover a cyan pixel square until it turns white and pull it directly in the viewport. Cloto verifies the evaluated rig, replaces that XYZ location key, refreshes the exact path, and stays ready for the next drag.
Inspect what drives a control
Select controls and visualize their parent, constraint-target, object-transform, and driver relationships. Copy the full report when you need to inspect non-spatial dependencies too.
03 — WORKFLOW
Capture once. Keep moving.
Cloto puts the expensive evaluation behind deliberate actions and keeps the common animation loop light.
Set the local range
Place the playhead near the keys you care about, select the controls, and choose the frame margin around the current time.
Capture the exact proxy
Cloto guards the keys, asks Blender for the exact path, copies it, and removes the native calculation from the rig.
Animate or edit keys
Work with the live approximation, create or delete keys through Blender, or drag a cyan key square directly. Enable optional transform refresh when you also want existing keyed transforms to recalculate their smallest safe exact section.
Your motion-path controls, together in Blender.
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04 — HONEST SCOPE
Exact anchor. Faithful live guide.
The distinction is deliberate: capture and refresh are evaluated by Blender; interactive deformation is a fast visual approximation.
Keeps motion-path feedback present while you animate.
It protects the calculation range, preserves native results as proxies, and updates those paths as selected controls move.
It does not solve the rig in the background.
On constrained or driven rigs, the live path is intentionally approximate. Refresh Exact whenever the final evaluated trajectory matters.
Cloto
The path should guide the motion, not stop it.
See the complete workflow, status colors, exact refresh, and native restore.