How I Animate Text in Cavalry 🔤 (Cavalry Tutorial)
Welcome back to Steal My Reel, the series where I break apart my showreel intro in Cavalry, and hand you the project file for FREEEEEE
Episode 3 is all about TEXT. We go from the absolute basics of how strings work, all the way to per-character animation and I'll show you how Cavalry actually reads your text under the hood so the whole thing finally clicks. Once it does, you can apply this same logic to literally everything you make.
We're covering:
🔤 How Cavalry reads text - levels + the Mesh Explorer
✍️ Strings & manipulators - non-destructive text reveals
⌨️ Resize String - the classic typewriter reveal
🔁 Transition String - swap the copy, keep the motion
🎛️ Sub-Mesh - full manual control, per line / word / character
⚡ Auto-Animate - text on screen in seconds
🤯 Bonus: using Sub-Mesh on SVGs & logos (not just text!)
📥 FREE PROJECT FILE
https://jackjaeschke.gumroad.com/
🔗 LINKS
Cavalry (free download): https://cavalry.studio/
Easey (the easing script I use): https://github.com/sammularczyk/easey
Quiver (Figma → Cavalry): https://github.com/phillip-motion/quiver
Buy me a coffee ☕: https://jackjaeschke.gumroad.com/
📺 STEAL MY REEL SERIES
Ep.1 — Duplicators: • I'm Giving Away My Showreel 😳 (Cavalry Tut...
Ep.2 — Components: • Components in Cavalry Are NEXT LEVEL Clean...
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro + Thank You (1K!)
1:21 What We're Covering
2:05 How Cavalry Reads Text (Levels)
2:52 The Mesh Explorer
4:13 Unique vs Child Index
9:02 Strings – Non-Destructive Text
10:27 Resize String (Typewriter Reveal)
11:27 Transition String
13:09 Sub-Mesh – The Manual Way
16:25 Auto-Animate – The Fast Way
19:22 Auto-Animate VS Sub-Mesh
20:18 Bonus: Sub-Mesh on SVGs and logos
26:37 Recap & Next Episode
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