I love title sequences. In TV, movies, but especially in trailers, the use of words, typefaces, and graphics to set the emotion of a piece just makes my little geek heart pound. Motype is a generator for animating text. It comes packed with a lot of fun, professional looking presets that animate the letters alongside glowing backgrounds to give it a lot of visual punch—and that’s if you just go with the presets.

Nodes is a piece of software that makes data points into beautiful bits of video, that are really dazzling. If you’re working on an industrial or other business film where you need to clobber someone with text in a stunning manner—but not something they particularly need to be able to recite afterwards—then Nodes is a dead useful way to create a variety of visually compelling short sequences.