Falling Shapes
Falling confetti animation with three word tiles
Orange, cobalt and cream rings, crosses and plus signs rain down the frame and pile up at the bottom, while three white word tiles pop in between them. Six seconds, playful, on near-black.
- 6s
- duration
- 4
- aspect ratios
- 6
- controls
- 720p
- free, unlimited exports
Motion Background · 6s · 9:16
Particles · Shapes · Playful · Loop
A particle system with an arc, not a loop
A falling emitter spawns shapes across the width of the frame and drops them through it, and beneath it sits a heap of shapes that have already landed. The heap is drawn as real geometry — rings, crosses and plus signs with their own stroke weights — so its top edge is ragged the way a pile is, instead of the flat cut a cropped particle layer leaves.
In front of the shapes, three word tiles pop in one at a time: white rounded boxes with dark type, each landing with a small overshoot. The density control runs from 10 to 60, which takes the clip from a light scatter to a full downpour, and the shape colour control drives the first colour of both the falling objects and the heap.
6 seconds, three beats
What is on screen, and when. Every element named here is a layer in the document — you can click any of them on the canvas and change it.
Beat 1 · 1.1s
First shapes fall
The heap is already banked along the bottom of the frame, the first rings and crosses are dropping through the upper half, and the first word tile has popped in.
Beat 2 · 2.4s
All three tiles
All three word tiles are stacked and settled, with shapes falling around and behind them and the heap filling the lower third of the frame.
Beat 3 · 3.2s
The poster frame
PLAY, WITH and SHAPES read clean against the near-black with the rain still falling past them — the frame that works best as a poster.
Three steps to a confetti clip
- 01
Write the three tiles
Each tile is its own text control, and the box resizes around whatever you type. Short words work best — one or two per tile.
- 02
Set the density
Between 10 and 60 falling objects. Low reads as a celebration accent, high reads as a downpour you would put a headline over.
- 03
Recolour and export
The shape colour control sets the palette of the falling objects. Pick 9:16 for a story or 1:1 for a post, and export.
It lands somewhere
The shapes pile up instead of falling into nothing
The heap along the bottom of the frame is built from the same rings, crosses and plus signs as the rain, with a ragged top edge and no seam where it meets the background. That floor is what holds the composition together for six seconds, where a plain confetti overlay — shapes dropping out of frame into nothing — stops being interesting after two.
Three real shapes
Rings, crosses and plus signs, not blobs
The falling objects are drawn as geometry with stroke weights, so they stay crisp at any export size and read as a deliberate set rather than as generic sparkle. They rotate as they fall.
The tiles
Word blocks that pop through the rain
Three white tiles land in sequence on top of the particles with a small overshoot each. Because they are opaque, your copy stays perfectly readable no matter how high you push the density.
What you can change
Six controls. The tile boxes size themselves around the text you type, so a longer word never overflows its block.
- Click any element on the canvas to edit it directly
- Or describe the change in a sentence and let the assistant make it
- Export 9:16, 16:9, 1:1, 4:5 from the same document
Studio controls
6 named
- Tile 1TextPLAY
- Tile 2TextWITH
- Tile 3TextSHAPES
- Shape color AColour#FF5A1F
- Falling densitySlider 10–6026
- SpeedSlider 0.5–21
Why this instead of a confetti overlay
Overlay packs need something underneath them and give you no control over colour or density, which usually means the confetti clashes with whatever you laid it over. Here the particles, the palette and the copy are one document — so the shapes are your colours, the tiles say your words, and there is nothing to composite.
Falling Shapes: questions, answered
Is the falling confetti template free?+
Free to open and edit, and free accounts get unlimited free 720p exports with a small LazyKiwi mark. Clean 1080p is included with any paid plan.
What aspect ratios can I export?+
9:16, 16:9, 1:1 and 4:5. The emitter spans whatever width you choose, so the rain fills a wide frame as evenly as a vertical one.
Can I change the words and the colours?+
All three tiles are text controls, the shape colour sets the first colour of the falling objects and the heap, and density runs from 10 to 60. The tile boxes resize to your text automatically.
Do I need After Effects?+
No, and no particle plugin either. The emitters are part of the document and render in the browser.
How long is the clip?+
Six seconds, and the fall loops. Slow it to 0.5× if you want the shapes to hang in frame for longer.
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Fractal GlassBlue and amber colour flows behind a wall of vertical reeded glass — each rib refracts the gradient into shifted slices. Seamless 8-second loop, nothing on top of it.
Mesh GradientA four-point mesh gradient drifting on a seamless 8-second loop, with a grotesk headline, a lede and a dark pill button sitting on top of it.
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Three words, one colour, one density slider. Open the template and export.