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Movements that tick, and keep time.

TockPilot builds a working clock or watch movement in Blender with one click. Every wheel turns at its real ratio, the escapement locks tooth by tooth, and the hands show the time you set.
A wristwatch movement from the back: rhodium bridges with Côtes de Genève stripes, blued screws, red jewels, the balance and the gilt train between the bridges.
Rendered in Cycles. Each movement is as Add Movement builds it, with a camera and two lights.

Why it exists

A clock in a scene should work like one.

Most clock models are a static mesh with a hand or two keyed by hand. Up close they give themselves away: wheels that do not mesh, a seconds hand that glides, an escape wheel that never moves. TockPilot builds the real mechanism from its gear ratios, so a macro shot, a slow-motion tick or a twelve-hour timelapse all hold up.

Five styles

Wall clock, skeleton clock, tower clock, pocket watch and wristwatch, each at its real size and beat.

Real escapements

Graham deadbeat, recoil anchor and Swiss lever, solved so no tooth sinks more than 1 % into a pallet.

Watchmaker's choices

Three dials, bridges or a three-quarter plate, three finishes, skeletonising, blued screws, an engraving, a tourbillon and automatic winding.

Cases for every style

A grandfather clock, a wall case, a dome, an iron frame, gold and steel watch cases, each also in glass, in four woods.

Time you control

Set the time, set it to now, slow it down for a close-up, freeze it for a still, or bake it for glTF and FBX.

Ticks without the add-on

Simple drivers carry every part, so the file plays anywhere, also with Auto Run off.

How it works

Pick, click, play.

  1. The TockPilot tab before anything is built.Pick a style or a preset
  2. The Movement and Time panels for a wall clock that has just been added.Click Add Movement
  3. The Time panel after Check Movement: Meshes Cleanly.Press Space, set the time

Change any setting with the movement selected and TockPilot rebuilds it in place.

Coming soon to Superhive Market

For Blender 4.5 and newer, on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Read the guide

A Pilot Studio add-on