One Template, Three Reveals (and Counting)
Logo Animation is our first umbrella template: instead of one look per template, it packs a whole family of logo reveals behind a single Animation Style switch. Launch with your mark and choose the voice that fits your brand:
- Shine Sweep — your logo fades in and a specular light band sweeps across the silhouette. The classic premium sting.
- Glitch Reveal — seeded horizontal slices and RGB-split fringes resolve into the clean mark. Built for tech, gaming, and anything with an edge.
- Draw-On Outline — a pen tip traces your logo's actual edges, shape by shape, letter by letter, then fades the fill in. Handmade energy, zero hand-drawing.
Switch styles and the control panel follows: each reveal brings its own settings — band width and angle for the sweep, slice count and jitter rate for the glitch, stroke width for the trace — and hides everything that doesn't apply. Shared timing controls (reveal duration, hold, loop, seed) stay put so your rhythm survives the style change.
Every Style Has an Address
This release also upgrades the editor's deep links. /editor#logo-animation opens the template; /editor#logo-animation/glitch-reveal opens it already switched to the style you want. Share the exact look, not just the template — and as new reveal styles join the family, each one arrives with its own link from day one.
Deterministic by Design — Again
Like Kinetic Typography before it, Logo Animation is seeded and time-driven from the ground up. The glitch doesn't roll dice every frame; it computes every slice offset from the seed and the clock. Same logo, same settings, same seed — pixel-for-pixel the same MP4, every export.
No Logo? No Black Frame.
Open the template before uploading anything and a placeholder mark is already animating, so the live preview on the landing page and your first second in the editor always show the effect in motion. Drop in a PNG or SVG — transparent backgrounds and clear silhouettes work best — and every style re-reads your mark instantly, edges and all.
Word Physics Gets Its Page
When the physics-driven word engine moved to its own home in V0.5.1, it left without a proper front door. Fixed: Word Physics now has a full template page with a live preview, use cases, and a guide — words tumbling, colliding, and settling into their elastic mesh, one click from the template gallery.
Lock Zoom Now Means It
A fix for a subtle Basic-mode annoyance: with Lock zoom checked, Generative Shuffle could still resize your logo, because it was randomizing the logo's own size control rather than the camera. Lock Zoom now covers both — and in Logo Animation, Shuffle never touches your logo's size at all. Shuffle explores the style; your mark stays exactly where you put it.
Honest Engineering: Tracing Real Edges
Developer Note: Draw-On doesn't fake its trace with a wipe. The engine samples your logo's alpha channel, extracts the actual edge points, and chains them into ordered contours so the pen follows the outline the way a human would — jumping cleanly between separate shapes and letters instead of scanning top-to-bottom. And a small confession from testing: a pure-white logo swallowed the shine sweep whole (you can't brighten white), so the sweep now ships with a subtle scale "gleam" at its peak — visible on any logo, on any background.
Up Next (Coming Soon)
- More reveal styles: the umbrella is built to grow — new logo animations will land inside the same template, each with its own deep link.
- Per-style pages: dedicated landing pages for every reveal style, so you can browse the family before you open the editor.
- The full logo toolkit: guides and resources on making your logo move — from intro stings to loop-ready brand bumpers.