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What Plnty is
A collaborative workspace for concept development and design: what a board holds, what multimodal means here, and how the tools sit on top of the models.
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It is built that way because of how multimodal models have become. | On the board | What you can do with it | | - | - | | Images, video, audio | Drop them in, feed them to a tool, arrange them inside frames | | 3D meshes | Orbit, light and render them with the pathtracer, export with quads preserved, and move them back and forth through the Cinema 4D plugin | | Sticky notes, comments, voice memos, emoji, sketch | Leave direction for whoever opens it next, tag each other, pin a comment to one point on a 3D object | | Frames | Group the work and hold a look | | Links, YouTube, Vimeo, HTML | Paste a link or drop a page in and it renders on the canvas, beside the thing it informed | | Palettes | Build colour swatches on the canvas and drag them onto a tool that takes one, tangents and recolor so far | Because the canvas is shared, a teammate opening the same board sees your cursor and your edits as they happen. ## What multimodal actually means here Video models now read more than a prompt. Seedance 2.5 on the canvas takes up to 50 references at once, mixing images, video clips and audio. | Reference | What it does | | - | - | | Images | Anchor visual appearance: face, costume, prop, environment | | Video | Establish motion patterns, shot rhythm, temporal continuity | | Audio | Lock tone, pacing, ambient texture | 3D comes in through a render. Take a 3D object generated with Meshy or Tripo and render it on the pathtracer to control the exact angle and focal length you want your object to render, then enhance it using AI models or blend-in-scene to compose it exactly as you wish. ## AI models paired with advanced in-browser capabilities Plnty's tools are built on the latest image, video, 3D, vector and audio models, and they turn those models into instruments for creative and design work. The tool is the part that matters. It takes methods and an interface already familiar to designers, applies them to the newest generative models, and hands you a suite of creative instruments that skip most of the technical learning curve. Around every model there is work the model cannot do. That work is the tool. Sometimes it is exact: recolor applies the hex you picked, to the pixel, where a prompt could only ask for it. Tangents writes each cell's brief from authored banks, so six results come back from six ideas and not six rewordings of one. The heavier work runs on your own machine, remeshing and pathtraced rendering among them, costing nothing to run and carrying on while an image is generating. They love a real GPU, and on a thin laptop they still run, slower. :::tip[Rather see it than read it?] Skip ahead to [your first generation](/docs/using-plnty/start-here/your-first-generation/) and come back to this page afterwards. ::: ## Credits Generating costs credits. Every tool shows its price on the Run button before you commit, and changing the quality or the size moves that number while you watch. Credits are reserved the moment you press Run and settle only once the result lands. A run that fails releases its reservation, so a provider erroring costs you nothing. In the rare case that release does not go through straight away, a sweep reconciles it within about an hour. Personal workspaces and team workspaces keep separate balances, and you can move credits from your own wallet into a team's shared pool. A workspace that runs dry stops generating until it is topped up, though everything already sitting on your boards stays exactly where it is. ## Every asset tags itself Nothing here asks you to file anything. The moment an asset lands it goes into the library carrying a record it keeps for as long as it exists. | Written automatically | What it holds | | - | - | | What it is | Image, video, 3D, audio or vector, with format and size | | What made it | The tool, the model, the exact settings, and the prompt you ran | | What it looks like | A written description, tags, the dominant colours, the style | | When and where | The date, the board it came from, and who made it | That record is what makes the library findable months later. Search runs across the name, the tags, the colours, the style, the description and the prompt at once, so a half-remembered "matte green ceramic thing from the spring pitch" is enough to land on it. Filter by kind to see every 3D asset you own, or by colour when you are rebuilding a palette. In a team workspace the library is shared. An asset a colleague made in March is in front of you in October with its settings still attached, so nobody has to remember which run produced the one that worked. Share a board and a client sees the work without an account, and without access to anything else.Plnty is a collaborative workspace for concept development and design, built on an infinite canvas and running much of its heavy work in your browser. Its tools adapt to different creative workflows, taking an idea from a rough first pass through to production-grade output.
What a board holds
Section titled “What a board holds”A board is an isometric 3D space. Images, video, 3D meshes, audio and vector all sit on it at the same time, next to collaboration tools that let you comment, annotate and work together with your team.
It is built that way because of how multimodal models have become.
| On the board | What you can do with it |
|---|---|
| Images, video, audio | Drop them in, feed them to a tool, arrange them inside frames |
| 3D meshes | Orbit, light and render them with the pathtracer, export with quads preserved, and move them back and forth through the Cinema 4D plugin |
| Sticky notes, comments, voice memos, emoji, sketch | Leave direction for whoever opens it next, tag each other, pin a comment to one point on a 3D object |
| Frames | Group the work and hold a look |
| Links, YouTube, Vimeo, HTML | Paste a link or drop a page in and it renders on the canvas, beside the thing it informed |
| Palettes | Build colour swatches on the canvas and drag them onto a tool that takes one, tangents and recolor so far |
Because the canvas is shared, a teammate opening the same board sees your cursor and your edits as they happen.
What multimodal actually means here
Section titled “What multimodal actually means here”Video models now read more than a prompt. Seedance 2.5 on the canvas takes up to 50 references at once, mixing images, video clips and audio.
| Reference | What it does |
|---|---|
| Images | Anchor visual appearance: face, costume, prop, environment |
| Video | Establish motion patterns, shot rhythm, temporal continuity |
| Audio | Lock tone, pacing, ambient texture |
3D comes in through a render. Take a 3D object generated with Meshy or Tripo and render it on the pathtracer to control the exact angle and focal length you want your object to render, then enhance it using AI models or blend-in-scene to compose it exactly as you wish.
AI models paired with advanced in-browser capabilities
Section titled “AI models paired with advanced in-browser capabilities”Plnty’s tools are built on the latest image, video, 3D, vector and audio models, and they turn those models into instruments for creative and design work. The tool is the part that matters. It takes methods and an interface already familiar to designers, applies them to the newest generative models, and hands you a suite of creative instruments that skip most of the technical learning curve.
Around every model there is work the model cannot do. That work is the tool. Sometimes it is exact: recolor applies the hex you picked, to the pixel, where a prompt could only ask for it. Tangents writes each cell’s brief from authored banks, so six results come back from six ideas and not six rewordings of one. The heavier work runs on your own machine, remeshing and pathtraced rendering among them, costing nothing to run and carrying on while an image is generating. They love a real GPU, and on a thin laptop they still run, slower.
Credits
Section titled “Credits”Generating costs credits. Every tool shows its price on the Run button before you commit, and changing the quality or the size moves that number while you watch.
Credits are reserved the moment you press Run and settle only once the result lands. A run that fails releases its reservation, so a provider erroring costs you nothing. In the rare case that release does not go through straight away, a sweep reconciles it within about an hour.
Personal workspaces and team workspaces keep separate balances, and you can move credits from your own wallet into a team’s shared pool. A workspace that runs dry stops generating until it is topped up, though everything already sitting on your boards stays exactly where it is.
Every asset tags itself
Section titled “Every asset tags itself”Nothing here asks you to file anything. The moment an asset lands it goes into the library carrying a record it keeps for as long as it exists.
| Written automatically | What it holds |
|---|---|
| What it is | Image, video, 3D, audio or vector, with format and size |
| What made it | The tool, the model, the exact settings, and the prompt you ran |
| What it looks like | A written description, tags, the dominant colours, the style |
| When and where | The date, the board it came from, and who made it |
That record is what makes the library findable months later. Search runs across the name, the tags, the colours, the style, the description and the prompt at once, so a half-remembered “matte green ceramic thing from the spring pitch” is enough to land on it. Filter by kind to see every 3D asset you own, or by colour when you are rebuilding a palette.
In a team workspace the library is shared. An asset a colleague made in March is in front of you in October with its settings still attached, so nobody has to remember which run produced the one that worked. Share a board and a client sees the work without an account, and without access to anything else.