Raining text.

[weedeater64]

I've done some very simple annimated gifs via imagemagick cli tools.

I'm wondering if it is possible to take an image and overlay it with raining text, a word or phrase as raindrops.

If so, could someone just give me a brief bullet point list of which tools to use?

Thanks.

[fmw42]

Not sure I understand what raining text means. But if you want to merge two animations, see http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_mods/#merging

[snibgo]

This might be an effect often seen in videos, where letters for a caption drop gently into place, or fly in from the edge of the frame, or whatever.

If that's what you want, I suggest you look at video editors. It could be done with ImageMagick and a complex script, but it wouldn't be trivial. This would actually work in reverse: start with the caption, work out the placement of each character, then make images with each character displaced from the original position. Assemble the video frames in the reverse order.