Lower third
- Size
- 1920×1080
- Frame rate
- 30 fps
- Length
- 4s
A rule, a feathered scrim and two lines of type, assembled in five beats and gone in eleven frames.
Make your own lower third animation
Slides a name and a job title over the bottom of a shot and takes them away again, without stepping on the face. Say a sentence like the one below and your agent writes you a different one — free, in your browser.
Say this to your agent
>A name tag that slides in over the bottom-left and leaves.
Or ask for a different one
Not settings — each one builds something else.
>A lower third that stays up the whole time instead of leaving, for a livestream.
>Name tag on the right instead of the left, with a logo mark in front of the name.
>A lower third for a podcast: name, episode number, and the show's handle underneath.
What it worked out on its own
One legibility method, not three. A scrim anchored to the corner the type sits in — no plate, no outline, no shadow.
A scrim cannot be the wrong width because it has no width to get wrong, which is the other half of why the solid plate went.
The rule draws down, the scrim wipes out from it, the name rises out of its clip, the hairline draws, the role fades up. Parts of a thing do not arrive at the same instant.
The exit is faster than the entrance and eased in, because the graphic is leaving the frame rather than arriving in it.
