Animating 3D Text for Videos and Social Media

Design Your 3D Text in Art Text

Start by creating the base of your text using Art Text. This is where you define the look, depth, and personality of your text.

• Glossy and metallic for cinematic content.
• Neon or glowing for modern social media.
• Textured or grunge for urban or edgy visuals.

Art Text offers diverse text effect templates that can give you a strong starting point, especially if you want quick results.

Alternatively, create your own 3D typography from scratch by simply typing a text and see how Art Text generates a three-dimensional text on the fly. Once the 3D text is ready, you can further tweak it:

• Apply realistic materials like metal, glass, or plastic.
• Adjust the way the 3D title is lit.
• Customize surface roughness and reflections.
• Experiment how the environment affects the 3D object.
• Add depth gradient, glow effect and drop shadow.

Small tweaks here make a big difference.

Animate 3D Titles in Art Text

With the current rise of AI, you can export your 3D text design from Art Text to an image file and then use it in AI-based tools to animate it. Google’s Veo and Nano Banana, Runway, Flux and many others do a great job by allowing you to import one or several images and taking care of the animation.

Animation is where your 3D title comes to life. In Art Text, animations are built using keyframes, distinct states of your design placed along a timeline. The app then generates smooth transitions between these states, allowing you to control everything from 3D rotation and movement within the scene to changes in text effects and styling.

To fine-tune how your animation behaves, Art Text provides three transition types:

• Ease delivers a natural, polished motion by gradually accelerating at the beginning and slowing down at the end. This is ideal for most professional-looking animations.
• Linear maintains a constant speed throughout the transition, without acceleration or deceleration—perfect when you need steady, mechanical movement.
• Spring introduces energy and personality, simulating a physics-based bounce. Elements briefly overshoot their target and settle into place, making this option especially effective for playful or dynamic designs.

By choosing the right transition type, you can dramatically influence the tone and feel of your animated 3D typography.

Animating with Artificial Intelligence

With the growing capabilities of AI-powered tools, you can take your animations even further. Export your 3D text graphics from Art Text as an image, then bring it into platforms like Runway, Flux, Google’s Veo and Nano Banana, or other emerging AI solutions. These tools allow you to import one or multiple images and automatically generate high-quality animations, opening up new creative possibilities with minimal effort.

Exporting for iMovie or Social Media

Once your 3D animation looks perfect, you can seamlessly export Art Text animated text videos in MOV, MP4, M4V or GIF formats. And then use these videos in your social media channels.

If you plan to add 3D text animations to other videos using video editors: make sure to export your animations on a transparent background. This single setting is what allows you to seamlessly overlay your new title animation over your actual video footage for use in iMovie, Keynote, or any video production app.

Artificial intelligence video tools typically export generated animations in MP4 format. While some platforms may support additional formats, options remain limited. Transparent background export is generally not available for AI-generated video, meaning the output is always fully rendered with a background. As a result, it’s important to ensure your composition works as a complete scene.

Wrapping Up

You don’t need incredibly complex animation software to make your videos stand out. By leveraging the built-in 3D engine and text effect tools in Art Text, generating professional animated 3D titles takes minutes, not hours. Download the app to your Mac today and bring your typography to life!