> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://help.intangible.ai/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://help.intangible.ai/canvas/canvas.md).

# The canvas

The canvas is a project's home screen: every reference, model, scene, shot and render as a card, laid out in groups, with Intangible agents working alongside.

The canvas is one place for a project from idea to hand-off. The brief, the photos you brought, the references and 3D models made from them, the scene and its shots, the renders, the video and the pack you hand off all live on it. Every piece is a card, cards sit in groups, and you can trace a render back to where it came from.

A project moves across it in order: your prompt and files from Home, the brief you confirm, the references and models, the scene and its shots, the renders, your edits, and the asset pack. Intangible [agents](/chat-agents-intangible/chat.md) put their work here as they go.

Under the canvas, Build, Compose and Visualize are still there for hands-on work. Open any of them from a card, in any order, and come back. What you do there shows on the canvas: scene changes from Build, shots from Compose, renders from Visualize.

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![One project from start to finish, sped up: the prompt and four images on Home, the questions in the chat, the brief, the groups of references, then the Storyboard and Visualizations filling with renders](https://1179478100-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FSWrjIqlgVAblx6vHGJiM%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-c68848319c2b77e5559629f0f31d838d19c398aa%2Fcanvas-recap-01.gif?alt=media)

![A finished car-chase project on the canvas with the chat panel open: Sources with drone and car models, Groups with reference sheets, the Storyboard of shots, and Visualizations with the renders, three of them reading Didn't finish](https://1179478100-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FSWrjIqlgVAblx6vHGJiM%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-3210593495e4a73573bfda5816a189e859c6a1dc%2Fcanvas-overview-01.png?alt=media)

## How a project moves across the canvas

| Step    | What happens                                            | Page                                                                    |
| ------- | ------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Start   | A prompt and your files on Home become a project        | [Home](/canvas/home.md)                                                 |
| Plan    | The agents write the brief; you confirm it              | [The brief](/canvas/the-brief.md)                                       |
| Build   | References, models, the scene and cameras land as cards | [What Intangible agents build](/canvas/what-intangible-agents-build.md) |
| Render  | A keyframe for every shot in one pass                   | [Batch visualize](/canvas/batch-visualize.md)                           |
| Move    | Keyframes become video                                  | [Keyframes to video](/canvas/keyframes-to-video.md)                     |
| Fix     | Draw on a frame to change part of it                    | [Edit media](/canvas/edit-media.md)                                     |
| Deliver | Everything packed into one download                     | [Asset packs](/canvas/asset-packs.md)                                   |

You can also upload files and make images, videos and style presets on the canvas without building a scene first. See [Create on the canvas](/canvas/create-on-the-canvas.md).

## Find your way around

* [Groups and cards](/canvas/groups-and-cards.md) – what each group holds, what each card's toolbar does, and how to move around.
* **The chat panel** sits in the bottom-right corner on the canvas and in Build, with your own conversation on each project shared between the two. It does not open in Compose or Visualize; ask from the canvas or Build and the agents still move cameras, set keyframes and render. See [Chat](/chat-agents-intangible/chat.md).
* **Modes** are at the top of the screen. Press **0** for the canvas, **1**, **2**, **3** for Build, Compose and Visualize.

## Related

* [Get started](/get-started/get-started.md) – the whole journey, step by step.
* [How Intangible works](/learn-more/concepts/how-intangible-works.md)


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