animation glossary
Glitch Text Effect
A glitch text effect makes letters flicker, tear, shift, or break into RGB-split fragments to mimic a corrupted digital signal.
What is Glitch Text Effect?
Glitch text is one of the most searched web animation effects. It works by slicing glyphs into horizontal bands, offsetting their red/cyan channels, and driving short bursts of displacement noise. The result reads as a broken feed, a hacked system, or a retro CRT failure — and it is a compact, self-contained Remotion shot you can drop into an intro or a title card.
Glitch Text Effect in Remotion
Every shot below is a real, renderable Remotion composition. Open the detail page for the recipe notes, then copy the agent brief to implement the shot from tuned TSX.
Implement glitch text effect
Copy the agent brief for the first shot to have an AI agent build it from the reference TSX.
Frequently asked questions
What is a glitch text effect?+
A glitch text effect animates text so it appears corrupted: letters are sliced into bands, shifted horizontally, split into RGB channels, or flickered on and off to imitate a digital signal failure.
How do you make a glitch text effect?+
In Remotion, render the text with RGB channel offsets and per-row translate slices, then drive the offsets with short random bursts instead of a smooth loop. Watch the video above for a ready-to-use reference shot.
Is there a free glitch text generator?+
Yes — many online glitch text generators exist for static images. For animated glitch text you can control in code, the Remotion shot on this page is a better fit: it ships as TSX you can adapt to your own title.