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01 / Explore
Find the right starting point.
Preview styles such as Rise & Settle, Typewriter, Word Pop and Blur Focus on text from After Effects. Built-in styles cover reveals, color and scale emphasis, and animated decorations.
Text Animator
Give your text motion, rhythm and emphasis in After Effects. Keep the result editable.
Made for After Effects26 STYLES
DESCRIPTION
Choose motion. Tune the rhythm. Apply to your text.
Preview a style on your selected text before applying it in After Effects.
Text Animator is a blinkl.io extension for After Effects with 26 built-in styles for text animation and decoration. Choose a reveal, word pop, color accent or hand-drawn highlight.
Select your text layers and adjust timing, speed, energy, flow and direction where supported. Use character or word modes to shape how the text appears.
Click Apply to add the effect in After Effects. Text animations stay editable on the original layer; decorations and cursor effects may create extra layers.
Save your settings as named presets, import or export them, and assign a preset to the Ring to apply it directly to selected text.
WORKFLOW
Build the motion around your words.
Pick a style, shape its timing, add emphasis and reuse the result.
02 / Tune
Control how the text unfolds.
Choose In, Out, In + Out or Sweep. Adjust the controls available for your style, including speed, energy, flow, direction and character or word animation. Exact stagger lets you set a delay in frames.
Emphasize
Give the important words an accent.
Combine an animation with an underline, strike, marker or scribble decoration. Choose an accent color and target a word range, the first word, the last word or the longest word.
03 / Apply
Apply and check the result.
Apply your animation and decoration, then play the composition in After Effects to check the motion and emphasis on your text.
04 / Reuse
Keep the combinations you like.
Save your animation, decoration and settings as a named preset. Reuse it on selected text, import or export .preset files, and assign it to the Ring.
RING ACTIONS
Three styles ready for a quick apply.
Assign these actions to the Ring to animate selected text layers in After Effects.
01
Rise & Settle
Apply a rising entrance with a settling finish to selected text layers.
Rise & Settle
02
Word Pop
Make the selected text appear word by word with an overshoot.
Word Pop
03
Typewriter
Reveal the selected text character by character.
Typewriter
FAQ
Know what happens in your composition.
Which Adobe app does Text Animator support?
Text Animator is designed for After Effects. Open a composition containing text layers before choosing your targets.
Will my text stay editable?
Text animations are applied to the original text layer using native After Effects animators and selectors. The text is not split into one layer per character or word. Decorations and cursor styles can add companion shape or text layers.
Does the panel preview change my composition?
Choosing a built-in style and changing panel settings updates the preview. Use Apply to write those settings into After Effects. Saved presets and Ring actions are direct apply actions.
Can I animate by character or by word?
Yes, when the selected style supports that choice. Auto uses the style’s default unit. Some styles keep a fixed unit, so the available controls depend on the style.
Can I apply a style to several text layers?
Yes. Use the After Effects selection, or fetch text layers at the playhead, in the work area or across the whole composition and check the targets you want. Each target is processed using its own text and layer timing.
Can I combine motion with a decoration?
Yes. Choose an animation and a decoration, then apply the combination. Word selectors can target a range, the first word, the last word or the longest word. Decorations are built as additional keyframed shape layers.
What does Exact stagger change?
Exact stagger specifies the delay between text units in frames and overrides Flow. The timing is fitted to the target layer’s duration and may be compressed if the layer is too short.
Can I reuse or share my presets?
Save a named preset containing the selected animation, decoration, phase and settings. Presets can be exported and imported as .preset files, and saved presets can be assigned to the Ring.
Is the panel preview an After Effects render?
No. The panel previews your text using the shared timing calculations. It is not a render of the composition, and font rendering or effect details can differ. Check the applied result in After Effects.
How do I remove Text Animator effects?
Select No animation or No decoration and apply to clear the corresponding effect on your targets. Remove all Text Animator animations removes its generated animators, cursors and decorations across the composition. Use After Effects Undo when you need to restore the previous state.