# Y2K Liquid Chrome: motion graphics style

> Molten, mirror-polished metal pools together into the word, wobbles like mercury and melts back into blobs. The glossy chrome look defined late-90s and Y2K graphics and is back in music, fashion and streetwear branding.

- Category: [Materials & 3D](https://aimotions.art/category/materials-3d/)
- Also known as: chrome text, mercury type, liquid metal, y2k aesthetic, metallic 3d text, molten silver, chrome horizon
- Demo built with: WebGL · Energy: Calm · Background: Dark bg
- Live demo: https://aimotions.art/styles/liquid-chrome/
- Spanish version: https://aimotions.art/es/estilos/liquid-chrome/

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

```text
Render the word [TEXT] as liquid chrome in a Y2K aesthetic. Start with a few mercury-like blobs drifting and merging until they pour into the letterforms, hold while a slow liquid wobble ripples across the surface, then melt back into blobs and loop. The metal is a perfect, high-contrast mirror with puffy rounded edges: the upper half of every letter reflects a deep blue sky fading to near-white, a crisp bright horizon line cuts across the middle, and the lower half drops to a black floor that warms to gray at the bottom edge. Add a couple of soft vertical light strips sliding across. Background: deep blue-black gradient with a faint glossy floor reflection and a few twinkling four-point star glints. Smooth, glossy, hypnotic.
```

## Visual DNA

- Mirror chrome reflecting a horizon: blue sky, white horizon line, black floor
- Puffy rounded tube-like edges, as if the letters were poured
- Slow liquid wobble running across the surface
- Mercury blobs that merge into the word and melt away
- Glossy floor reflection and four-point star glints on blue-black

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How to cite: Y2K Liquid Chrome, aimotions, https://aimotions.art/styles/liquid-chrome/