Falling Shapes
Falling confetti animation with three word tiles
Coral, violet, cyan and yellow rings, crosses and plus signs rain down the frame and pile up at the bottom, while three black word tiles pop in between them. Six seconds, playful, on near-black.
- 6s
- duration
- 4
- aspect ratios
- 6
- controls
- 720p
- free, no watermark
Motion Background · 6s · 9:16
Particles · Shapes · Playful · Loop
A particle system with an arc, not a loop
Two particle layers do the work. One is a falling emitter that spawns shapes across the width of the frame and drops them through it; the other is a settling layer beneath, so the field builds to a peak and then opens out again. That arc is what separates this from a generic confetti overlay — something is actually happening, and the frame at the end does not look like the frame at the start.
In front of the shapes, three word tiles pop in one at a time: black rounded boxes with white 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 palette of the falling objects.
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 glow is up, the first rings and crosses are dropping through the upper half of the frame, and the first word tile is arriving.
Beat 2 · 2.4s
All three tiles
The word tiles are stacked and settled, with shapes falling around and behind them and the pile beginning to form at the bottom.
Beat 3 · 3.2s
The rain thins
The first wave has fallen through and the field opens up, leaving the three tiles reading clean against the near-black — 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 has a shape
The rain builds and clears, it does not just loop
The field builds to a peak in the middle of the clip and then opens out again as the wave falls through. That gives it a beginning and an end state, which is why it holds attention for six seconds where a plain confetti loop 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 black 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 1TextSTYLES
- Tile 2TextWITH
- Tile 3TextEXPERIMENT
- Shape color AColour#FF6B6B
- 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 3 free 720p exports a day with no watermark. 1080p is a paid export.
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 falling objects' palette, 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 — the time the field takes to build and open out again. Slow it to 0.5× if you want the shapes to hang in frame for longer.
More gradient & particle backgrounds
All backgrounds
Ambient GlowPink and orange light drifts and breathes across the whole frame while a soft glowing square pulses at the centre — minimal, seamless 8-second loop.
Iron FilingsFine iron-filing strokes snap into the field lines of a horizontal dipole and keep drifting along them, around a bar magnet carrying one display word.
Fractal GlassBlue and amber colour flows behind a wall of vertical reeded glass — each rib refracts the gradient into shifted slices. One thin caption line, seamless 8-second loop.
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.
Iridescent TorusA big holographic 3D torus tumbles slowly on two axes over near-black, cyan and magenta bands sliding across its glossy surface — a seamless loop with a tiny mono caption.Make it rain on your copy.
Three words, one colour, one density slider. Open the template and export.