Animated, decorated 3D text for Blender, built for motion designers, not just modelers.

These settings apply directly to your text object and stay fully editable, so you can keep retyping the text and adjusting these values anytime.

At the top of the panel:

Save

Prompts for a name and stores your entire current PopText setup (decoration, pose, animation, material settings) to Blender's own preferences, so it's available in every .blend file, not just this one.

Load

Pick a saved preset from the dropdown and apply it to the selected text object.

Delete

Remove a saved preset you no longer need.

A single dropdown that affects everything that rotates a character: Text Pose, Start/End Rotation, and idle Jitter.

Baseline (default)

Pivot sits at the bottom of each letter, derived per line by clustering where most characters actually rest, not from each character's own bounding box.

Middle

Pivot sits at the vertical center.

Meanline

Pivot sits at the top of each letter, using the same per-line clustering as Baseline.

A static pose applied to a copy of your text. Your original stays untouched and editable.

1. Expand the Text Pose section.
2. Choose a Pose Style (see below).
3. Adjust Position Amount and Rotation Amount. What each one controls depends on the style you picked (check the tooltip on each field for specifics).
4. Scale Jitter always layers on top of any style, for a bit of size variation.
5. Pose Seed: change this for a different random result. The same seed always reproduces the same pose.
6. Click Apply Text Pose.

Multi-line text: each line poses independently. An Arch on a two-line block gives each line its own arch, not one arch spanning both lines.

Perpetual motion added after a character's reveal. It's driver-based, so it runs forever without needing to be baked or re-rendered if you extend your timeline.

1. Expand Idle Animation and enable it.
2. Choose a style (see below).
3. Idle Speed / Idle Amount control the motion's speed and strength.

Float

Gentle vertical bob.

Pulse

Slow breathing scale.

Jitter

Small continuous rotational wobble.

Phase Stagger

0 moves every character in sync; higher values spread the motion into a traveling wave across the text.

These build the actual per-character reveal/exit animation, applied when you click Animate Characters. Both sections share the same structure, fully independent of each other:

Scale In/Out

Character grows from (or shrinks to) nothing. Optional Squash & Stretch overshoot.

Start/End Offset

Character starts (or ends) displaced from its position. Pick a Direction (Up/Down/Left/Right/Front/Back/Random) and a Distance. A live hint shows that distance as a percentage of the letter's own height.

Start/End Rotation

Character starts (or ends) rotated away from its final orientation. Pick an Axis (X/Y/Z/Random) and an Angle.

Interpolation / Easing

How the motion curves: Sine, Quad, Cubic, Back (overshoot), Bounce, Elastic, Constant (hard cut), or Linear, each paired with Ease In, Ease Out, or Ease In-Out.

Duration

How many frames the transition itself takes.

Reveal/Exit Order & timing

Left-to-right, right-to-left, center-outward, or random, plus Start Frame / Duration Per Character to control how many frames apart each character starts.

Preset dropdown (top of Animation In): a quick-load shortcut. Pick Pop In, Rise & Settle, Flip In, Slide In, Instant, Stretch In, or Explode → Assemble to fill in a sensible starting combination of the fields above, which you can then hand-tune freely.

Independent of the position-based animation above. It covers fade, glow, and color effects, applied per target (Fill, Outline, Outline 2), each built from its own material but sharing the same underlying fade/glow/color-cycle logic since none of that depends on color.

Expand Material Animation and enable it. (This overrides Fill/Outline/Outline 2 Material above for the animated copy only. Your live original text is unaffected.)

Base Color

Set independently per target: Fill, Outline, and Outline 2 each keep their own color, pre-filled from whatever material they already had assigned.

Fade In / Fade Out

Each has its own Start Frame, Duration, Order, and Duration Per Character, fully independent of the position animation's timing. Shared across all targets.

Glow

Color and Strength, with an optional Pulse (its own Speed and Phase Stagger). Shared across all targets.

Color Cycle

A rainbow-cycling emission color; works on its own without needing Glow separately enabled. Has its own Speed and Phase Stagger too. Shared across all targets.

The large button at the bottom of the panel. This is the one action that bakes everything above (Animation In/Out, Idle, Material Animation, and optionally Text Pose) onto a new, separate copy of your text, named "Pop <your text>". Your original text object is never modified.

It automatically detects which mode to use:

• If you've already run Apply Text Pose on this text and that pose group still exists, clicking Animate Characters animates those exact, possibly hand-tweaked pieces in place.
• Otherwise, it generates a fresh set of pieces from your live text.

To go back to generating fresh (ignoring an old pose), delete that pose's Empty object in the Outliner. The next click will no longer find it and falls back automatically.

Each run creates its own new collection (inside the top-level PopText collection) so multiple attempts don't pile up in one place.

PopText is actively developed, and these are real, currently-accepted tradeoffs, not things we're unaware of. Worth a read before relying on PopText for a specific font or workflow.