How to make an animated festival lineup

A lineup announcement is a long list of names. Motion can reveal them in order, headliners first, so each name gets its moment.

Making it in Motiontone

1. 1

   Start

   Open any template from the gallery and make it your own, or start from a blank canvas. You can begin without an account.

2. 2

   Lineup

   Replace the festival name, the dates and the location, then add the lineup from headliners down. A long lineup can go in a table, imported from a CSV file instead of typed.

3. 3

   Reveal

   Give the lineup a cascade, and the names appear one row, line or word at a time instead of all at once.

4. 4

   Music

   Upload a track from one of the artists. Motiontone finds its beat, so each name can land on a beat.

5. 5

   Motionbot

   Describe the motion you want and Motionbot, the built-in assistant, animates it. Every change it makes stays editable, keyframe by keyframe.

6. 6

   Sizes

   Add artboards for an Instagram post (4:5), a story, reel or TikTok (9:16) and a square. They share one timeline, so every size moves together.

7. 7

   Safe zones

   Turn on the social media safe zones to see where the TikTok and Reels buttons and captions will sit over your design, and keep your text clear of them. They only show in the editor, never in the video.

8. 8

   Export

   Export an MP4 for each size and post it.