Effect · animated
CRT scanlines effect
Horizontal lines and a rolling bright band, like an old monitor.
Without
With Scan Lines
How it works
Scan Lines draws thin dark lines every few pixels that crawl down the frame, plus a soft bright band that rolls through on a loop — the look of a CRT screen. It runs on the Motion clock, so it animates in GIF and video exports and Speed controls how fast it moves.
Effects apply to the finished frame, so Scan Lines works with every style, and the Intensity slider sets how strong it is. Because it animates, it shows fully in GIF, MP4 and WebM exports.
Tips
- Terminal green (the Code ramp plus a green tint) sells the CRT look.
- Add Chromatic for colour fringing.
- Keep intensity under 50% if the image must stay readable.
More effects
- VignetteDarken the corners to pull the eye to the centre.
- ChromaticSplit the image into offset red and cyan copies.
- BloomMake bright glyphs glow into the dark around them.
- Film GrainMoving monochrome noise, like photographic film.
- GlitchDisplaced slices and colour bars, like a corrupted signal.
- PixelateDownsample the finished frame into big square blocks.
- HalftoneA newspaper dot screen over your image.
- Film DustSpecks, hairs and scratches, like projected film.