Manim Tutorial For Beginners - Create A Moving Text Animation

If you’re a beginner trying to learn to animate Manim text try to recreate this animation:

Here is a YouTube video of me explaining how I created this moving text animation step-by-step. You can follow along:

Animation code:

from manim import *

class shrek(Scene):
    def construct(self):
         t1 = Text("SIL", font = "Sentient").scale(1.5)
         t2 = Text("Shrek Is Love", font = "Sentient").scale(1.5)

         self.play(Write(t1))

         self.play(ReplacementTransform(t1[0], t2[0:5]), run_time = 0.75)
         self.play(ReplacementTransform(t1[1], t2[5:7]), t1[2].animate.shift(RIGHT*0.75), run_time = 0.75)
         self.play(ReplacementTransform(t1[2], t2[7:]), run_time = 0.75)

         w1 = t2[0:5]
         w2 = t2[5:7]
         w3 = t2[7:]
         
         self.play(
              w1.animate.to_edge(UL),
              w3.animate.to_edge(DR),
              w2.animate.move_to(ORIGIN)
         )
         
         u1 = Underline(w1, color = RED)
         u2 = Underline(w2, color = RED)
         u3 = Underline(w3, color = RED)

         self.play(GrowFromCenter(u1), ShowPassingFlashWithThinningStrokeWidth(w1))

         for i in range(len(w1)):
              self.play(ShrinkToCenter(w1[i]), run_time = 0.15)

         self.play(ReplacementTransform(u1, u2), ShowPassingFlashWithThinningStrokeWidth(w2))

         for i in range(len(w2)):
              self.play(ShrinkToCenter(w2[i]), run_time = 0.15)

         self.play(ReplacementTransform(u2, u3), ShowPassingFlashWithThinningStrokeWidth(w3))

         for i in range(len(w3)):
              self.play(ShrinkToCenter(w3[i]), run_time = 0.15)
          
         shrek = Text("Shrek Is Love", font = "Sentient").scale(2)
         u4 = Underline(shrek, color = GREEN, sheen_factor = -0.5)

         self.play(ReplacementTransform(u3, u4))

         for i in range(len(shrek)):
              self.play(GrowFromCenter(shrek[i]), run_time = 0.1)

         self.play(Flash(shrek[10].get_top(), color = GREEN, line_length = 0.8, num_lines = 15))

         self.wait(3)

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