Experimental visual art & motion

Form is temporary.

Start from a simple shape or your own photo. Push it through effects until it becomes something else. Then make it move.

Runs in your browserNothing to installAny device, any time

Try it out

Add an effect. See it change.

This is the real tool, running right here. Stack a few effects, then keep going in Nullshape with your changes.

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A piece open in Nullshape
A piece open in Nullshape

Overview

An art tool for abstract, non-form, explorative visuals.

Op art, glitch, liquid 3D and pure abstraction. Stack effects you can always change, animate between scenes and let the music drive it — on your phone or your computer.

The effect stack: Source, Shockwave, Reeded Glass, Bloom / Glow
Nullshape on a phone: the Shockwave effect with its settings

01 · Non-destructive

Shape in. Art out.

Every effect is a layer you can tweak, reorder, hide or remove at any time. Nothing is baked in until you say so.

  • 80 effects — glass, ripples, smears, mirrors, glitch, dithering, 3D height maps, halftone and more.
  • Start from anything: your own photo, a word, a vector shape you draw, a pattern — or just a plain square.
  • Drag and pinch on the artwork to move centres, angles and sizes directly.
  • Random rolls a fresh stack or new settings when you want to be surprised.

Or start from a word

Words and vectors, too.

Type a word, use any Google font or draw a vector shape, then let the effects take over. Logos turn into loops, letters into texture.

A vector X with extruded, chromatic edges
A vector grid bent into a sphere
A white embossed 3D surface with the word GLOSSY

Or go 3D

Advanced 3D, from a flat shape.

Height Map lifts any shape, word or photo into a lit surface — liquid metal, glossy clay or crisp extruded blocks. Tilt it, turn it and move the light, then animate it between scenes so it moves like a render.

Or start from a photo

Your photos, pushed somewhere new.

Upload any photo and stack effects on it, live. A backgammon board turns into a lit, carved mandala; a sunset melts into smoke as a slider moves.

The sunset photo cut into shifted vertical slices
The sunset with VHS tracking glitches
The same street shattered into shards under a white sky

Three stills exported from the sunset photo.

How a piece comes together

From a black square to a moving piece.

  1. The starting point: a black square on white
    01StartThe default black square. Or your own image.
  2. The square after Kaleidoscope and Liquify
    02Add effectsKaleidoscope, then Liquify. Each one stays editable.
  3. The finished still, nine effects later
    03Finish the pieceNine effects later: turbulence, grain, a mirror.
  4. 04Make it moveSave scenes and the movie moves between them.

Reeded Glass, Domain Warp, Rain on Pond, Kaleidoscope, Height Map, Data Corrupt, Pixel Sort, Halftone, Droste Spiral +70 more.

Effects run live as you change them, on phone and desktop, and export at full resolution.

Distort

Liquify, Twirl, Ripple, Lens, Reeded Glass, Liquid Glass, Shockwave, Flow Smear, Slit Scan…

Mirror

Mirror, Kaleidoscope, Fractal Fold, Triangle Mirror, Radial Echo.

Glitch

Pixel Sort, Data Corrupt, RGB Split, Block Glitch, VHS, CRT Scanlines, Dither, Compression…

Texture

Film Grain, Halftone, Bloom / Glow, Oil Paint, Edge Detect, Noise Overlay…

Color

Gradient Map, Chroma Cycle, Palette Map, Threshold, Invert / Solarize…

3D

Height Map, Heightfield 3D, Relief Lighting, Sphere, Tunnel, Extrude Shadow…

Generate

Vector Shape, Text, Shape, Pattern, Gradient, Noise Field.

02 · Motion & music

Animate between looks. Sync it to music.

Save a few looks as scenes and Nullshape morphs between them. Add a song and the music drives the movement.

  1. Save scenesEach scene is a saved version of a layer's settings.
  2. Watch it morphShapes morph, glass bends, colours drift — scene to scene, in time with the song.
  3. Add a songLouder moments push the layers further. Titles pulse on the beat.

Scenes

  • Tap a scene to jump to it; change anything, then Update or save a New scene.
  • Apply to all copies one setting across every scene at once.
  • Each layer has its own timeline: when it comes in, how long it stays, how it fades.
  • Speed curves: even, punchy, slow start, pulse — or draw your own.

Music

  • Pick a song from your device or straight from Google Drive; choose the part you want and fade it in and out.
  • React to music, move over time or hold — per layer.
  • Response curves from even to punchy to sensitive.
  • Your music stays on your device or in your own Drive. Nullshape never uploads it.
Export image: PNG or JPG, sizes from current to 4096 × 4096
Export MP4: 24, 30 or 60 fps, 720p to 4K, three quality levels

03 · Export

Stills and movies, up to 4K.

Export exactly what you see — re-rendered fresh at the size you pick, so grain and pixel effects keep their look.

  • Images as PNG or JPG, up to 4096 × 4096.
  • MP4 movies at 24, 30 or 60 fps, from 720p to 4K, with your music in the file.
  • Square, portrait 9:16 or landscape — the artboard fits wherever it goes.
  • Share straight to Photos or social apps from your phone.
EP TimeNullshape
Cover: NULLSHAPE, Art is life
Cover · text
Cover: the same title pulled into a spiral, Art is life
Cover · spiral

For musicians

Your album cover. Then make it move.

Make the artwork for your single or EP, then turn the same piece into the short looping video that plays behind your song while people listen. Start from a shape, your logo or a press photo.

  • Square covers at 3000 × 3000 — what distributors ask for — and up to 4096 px with Pro.
  • Vertical 9:16 loops of 3–8 seconds, ready for Spotify's Canvas, Reels, TikTok and Shorts.
  • Driven by your track: let the music push the layers, so the loop moves with the song.
  • One project, every format: switch the artboard from square to 9:16 and keep every effect.

04 · Phone & desktop

The whole tool. In your pocket.

Nullshape runs in your browser — open it on any phone, tablet or computer, any time. And it's not a lite version: the phone gets every effect, scenes, the timeline, music and 4K export.

My projects on a phone
Adding an effect on a phone
Same projects, same tool — on the big screen.
A piece open in Nullshape on a laptop
The same piece on a phone

One project. Every screen.

Sketch on your phone on the way home, then open the same project on your laptop, with room for the timeline and every control.

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05 · Pricing

Free to make. Pro to go big.

Make anything on Free with 64 effects, and try the 16 Pro effects in the editor. Pro unlocks them for export and lifts the limits on images, movies and online projects — on every device you sign in on.

Free

$0forever
Start free

Pro

$49 $39once, launch price · or $24 / year
Get Pro
Effects, scenes, timeline, music
64, plus 16 Pro effects to try
All 80, Pro effects included
Image export
Up to 1024 px · small mark
Up to 4096 × 4096 · no mark
MP4 export
720p · 30 fps · first 10 s · small mark
Up to 4K · 60 fps · up to 60 s · no mark
Projects saved online
5
300
Phone and desktop
Yes
Yes — one Pro on every device

Prices include tax. Try everything free first · 14-day refund if Pro doesn't work for you. Payments by Stripe.

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