# Long-Exposure Light Painting: motion graphics style

> A sparkler writes the word in flowing cursive across a night landscape and the camera's long exposure keeps every stroke as a glowing trail, sparks and all. A light-graffiti text animation for celebrations, events and personal brands.

- Category: [Light & Shaders](https://aimotions.art/category/light-shaders/)
- Also known as: light painting, long exposure writing, sparkler writing, light trails text, handwritten light, light graffiti
- Demo built with: Canvas · Energy: Lively · Background: Dark bg
- Live demo: https://aimotions.art/styles/light-painting/
- Spanish version: https://aimotions.art/es/estilos/light-painting/

## Prompt (replace [TEXT] with your text)

```text
Create a long-exposure light-painting animation of [TEXT]. At night, over a dark hill silhouette under faint circular star trails, a bright sparkler writes [TEXT] in one continuous, slanted, monoline cursive stroke at natural handwriting speed. The camera's long exposure keeps the whole path visible as a glowing ribbon: a hot white core with an orange glow shifting to pink along the word, brighter where the hand slowed down. The sparkler sheds a shower of short golden sparks whose streaks also stay frozen in the exposure. When the word is finished the light switches off, travels back and dots the i's and crosses the t. Hold the finished photograph, then fade it to black and loop.
```

## Visual DNA

- One continuous handwritten cursive stroke, drawn in real time
- Hot white core with an orange-to-pink glow along the trail
- Shower of sparks whose trails stay frozen in the exposure
- The light goes dark to come back and dot the i's and cross the t
- Star trails arcing over a dark hill line

The prompts are free to copy, adapt and use in personal and commercial projects, with no credit required. Republishing the collection or a substantial part of it (for example as another library or a dataset) requires written permission.

How to cite: Long-Exposure Light Painting, aimotions, https://aimotions.art/styles/light-painting/