# Swivel effect in After effects
**URL:** https://forum.lottiefiles.com/t/swivel-effect-in-after-effects/1999
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [December 22, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.lottiefiles.com/t/swivel-effect-in-after-effects/1999 "2021-12-22T14:33:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@jannik](https://forum.lottiefiles.com/u/jannik)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.lottiefiles.com/t/swivel-effect-in-after-effects/1999/1 "2021-12-22T14:33:04Z")
Hi. I did a swivel (rotate) animation on a text layer in after effects. When trying to export using the lottiefiles extension, I just get a static text - the animation isn’t exporting. Any ideas? Thx, Jannik
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### Author:  [@irbypace](https://forum.lottiefiles.com/u/irbypace)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.lottiefiles.com/t/swivel-effect-in-after-effects/1999/2 "2021-12-22T16:46:26Z")
What kind of “swivel” animation are you trying to do? Is it with the “Enable Per-Character 3D” because if so the 3D part probably/likely won’t export. You can try BodyMovin, but hosting on Lottie won’t work.
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### Author:  [@jannik](https://forum.lottiefiles.com/u/jannik)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.lottiefiles.com/t/swivel-effect-in-after-effects/1999/3 "2021-12-22T18:22:33Z")
Thx for getting back. I’m using swivel in “Basic 3D” effect. What I want to achieve is to 3D rotate an element/text around an axis (swing around). I think I found out that that effect is just not supported (as opposed to rotate, scale etc). That also seems to be the case with BodyMovin as far as I can tell.
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### Author:  [@irbypace](https://forum.lottiefiles.com/u/irbypace)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.lottiefiles.com/t/swivel-effect-in-after-effects/1999/4 "2021-12-22T18:30:23Z")
@jannik Sorry to hear that. I learned a while back with this format it’s all about the basic movements. I’ve pushed it pretty far.