Ladybug is a live studio for designers and animators who want their work to stand out. Turn videos, stills, and webcam input into wild effects. Animate the look, composite layers, track motion, and export production-ready 4K video, 8K stills, and SVG.
One window, the whole pipeline, live in real time on stills or motion. Turn footage into effects, animate them, layer them into composites, and drive them by hand, then export production-ready.
Drop in a video, photo, or webcam feed and Ladybug rebuilds it live: ASCII, halftone, dither, glass, glitch, and dozens more. Every dial is yours, so you shape the exact look you want.
Put a keyframe on any control and it animates over time. Build reveals, loops, and transitions on a real timeline, then export the whole thing as video. Even a single still can come alive.
Stack media, effects, and masks on their own layers, like an editor. Blend a grade over footage, cut a subject out, and combine looks into one shot, all on the same timeline.
Turn on your camera and Ladybug tracks your hands, then puts an effect on just the part you point at. Drip a jacket into slime, turn a face to liquid glass, and move it all live.
Runs live, on your cameraTrace Motion turns every movement into persistent trails. Shape that memory as ink, dither, type, numbers, dots, or lines, then tune how long it holds and how it fades. Everything is processed on your computer.
Bring your export straight into the design and animation apps you already use.
Ladybug runs entirely in your browser. Your files are processed on your machine and uploaded nowhere, so NDA work stays NDA. The only things that get saved are the presets you choose to keep, and those live on your computer too.
Some of what’s inside is experimental, and we like it that way. Motion tracking that locks effects onto a moving subject. SVG shape generation that turns your footage into unique vector forms you can pull straight into a design. Rough around the edges, already useful, getting sharper.
I teach design at 92learns. A quarter of a million students in 120 countries have learned to make things there, starting from zero. Teaching showed me what designers actually need, so I started building tools for them. Ladybug is the one I wanted on my own desk. If you make something great with it, or something feels off, write to me. I read everything.
Free to use. No account, no upload, no catch.
