Bold type on ruled paper swept by a single travelling pulse of vertical stretch. The whole page — text and ruled lines together — is drawn onto an overscanned raster, then…
Try Text Wave free →Bold type on ruled paper swept by a single travelling pulse of vertical stretch. The whole page — text and ruled lines together — is drawn onto an overscanned raster, then rebuilt slice by slice with inverse source mapping so a lone bulge sweeps across the frame. Travel left↔right and a vertical band of tall letters sweeps across; travel top↔bottom and a horizontal band sweeps down, a non-uniform vertical warp so the text and the ruled lines stretch together and the rules spread apart through the band. Either way the block midline stays pinned and everything deforms as one unit, never leaving a gap. The ruled grid is derived from the font metrics — pitch is cap height divided by a density control, with the row advance snapped to it, so every text row sits exactly on the rules top and bottom. Controls for stretch, pulse width, speed, direction and an optional flank undershoot. Pure smooth motion, no jitter; seamless loop.
No install. Open the Text Wave effect and start immediately.
Text Wave is a source-less generator you can drop straight onto the canvas — stack it with the rest for something nobody else has.
Seamless looping video (MP4/GIF) and high-res image export, straight from the canvas.
Open it in the editor and see it move in seconds.