Promo

Cylinder Type Ring

A word wrapped around a turning cylinder, the back half showing through as it comes round.

Duration
4.4s
Frame
1080 × 1080
Export
MP4, GIF, MOV (alpha)
Resolution
Up to 4K

About the Cylinder Type Ring animation

The drop announcement where the type is the artwork: a numbered release, a date, a two-word claim. The ring is built from the glyphs themselves rather than a texture, so the word has to be short: past about eight characters it wraps behind the front of the cylinder and reads broken. Put the ship line in the caption underneath.

Where it fits

  • As the drop announcement where the type is the artwork.
  • On a numbered release or a date post.
  • As a two-word claim on a feed.

Filling it in

The word has to be short. Past about eight characters it wraps behind the front of the cylinder and reads broken. DROP 04 is right; a phrase is not. Put the ship line in the caption underneath. The disc colour is the cylinder.

Format and timing

Cylinder Type Ring is built at 1080 × 1080, a square frame, which sits in a feed post without cropping and centres neatly over wider footage, and runs 4.4 seconds at 30 frames per second. It arrives in 1.7 seconds, holds for 1.9 and clears in 0.8, so cue it a beat before the moment it labels. Export it as an MP4 for a timeline or a feed, a GIF where video will not embed, or a MOV with an alpha channel to lay it over footage with nothing behind it. Renders go up to 4K, and the free plan exports at 720p with a watermark.

What you can edit

  • Headlinetext
  • Captiontext
  • Disc colourcolor

Questions about Cylinder Type Ring

Why is the back half visible?

Because the ring is built from the glyphs themselves, not a texture, so the letters on the far side show through as they come round. That is what makes it read as a cylinder.

Can I use lower-case?

Caps read better on the curve, since even heights keep the ring even. Lower-case ascenders and descenders break the band.

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