# Shatter & Rewind: motion graphics style

> A shatter and rewind text effect: a chrome word cracks, bursts into spinning 3D glass shards in slow motion, then rewinds as every piece flies back into place. Big impact for trailers, game titles and launch teasers.

- Category: [Kinetic Typography](https://aimotions.art/category/kinetic-typography/)
- Also known as: shattering text, glass break text effect, text explode and reassemble, broken glass typography, reverse shatter, exploding letters 3d
- Demo built with: Canvas · Energy: Intense · Background: Dark bg
- Live demo: https://aimotions.art/styles/shatter-rewind/
- Spanish version: https://aimotions.art/es/estilos/shatter-rewind/

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

```text
Shatter [TEXT] like glass and rewind it. Set the word huge in a heavy, wide all-caps display face with a chrome finish (bright top, dark horizon line through the middle, bright bottom) on a deep teal-black background. A sheen glides across it. Then an impact hits one letter: a radial spiderweb crack races across the word, and it bursts into triangular shards that fly toward the camera, tumbling in 3D with perspective, lit faces flashing pale and backs going dark, glass dust drifting, slowing almost to a stop. Then everything rewinds: the shards accelerate back along their paths and snap together, the cracks heal and a thin shock ring ripples out. A small mono readout switches between PLAY and REWIND, its timecode running backwards. Loop.
```

## Visual DNA

- Chrome lettering with a horizon-line reflection and a passing sheen
- Radial spiderweb crack from a single impact point
- Around 150 triangular shards tumbling in 3D with perspective and lighting
- Burst that slows to a float, then an accelerating rewind snap
- Play and rewind readout with a timecode that runs backwards

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: Shatter & Rewind, aimotions, https://aimotions.art/styles/shatter-rewind/