TUTORIAL ARTICLE

Beginner

3 min

Animate text letter by letter

Elevate your motion graphics with letter-by-letter text animation.

What you’ll learn

Enable an animator

Add an animator to a text layer property to reveal the Range Selector and animate letters one at a time.

Change the Range Selector value

Use keyframes to animate one of the Range Selector values, animating that property one letter at a time.

Skip over spaces for a more fluid animation

Enable the Characters Excluding Spaces option to skip over any space between words in your graphic, resulting in a smoother final animation.


Instruction by

Sarah John

8 January 2025

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