Top Animation Libraries To Give Your Design A Motion

 

In web applications mostly animation is a motion and work with art, text, images and video clips. The most popular form of animation is Keyframing.

To give your design a motion, use keyframes in animation to create illumination, cast shadows and create specular highlights, change smoothly from one value to another within a predefined period of time and create a smooth transition.

These are some collections of JavaScript and CSS animation libraries that will help you to achieve your goal and make you stand out in the real world. 

1. GSAP - GreenSock:

GSAP is very flexible and adjusts to almost anything. You can add extra utilities like splits text blocks, add the ability to drag, morphing, drawing SVG strokes and more with plugins and target DOM elements with CSS plugin.

GSAP is a JavaScript library for the modern web and is compatible with HTML5, SVG, JQuery, Canvas, CSS and works with many modern frameworks.

2. Animate.CSS:

A smooth, easy-to-use, cross-browser, CSS animation library. It has 70+ animation effects. To make it very flexible and customizable, Animate.CSS makes use of CSS variables to define the animation's duration, delay and iterations.
You can also combine it with JavaScript for more control. It is very popular among developers and famous brands are using it. 

3. CSShake:

CSShake is a CSS animation library to move your DOM. It has every animation shake effect to attract attention.
To use this library simply include a CSS file and apply it to your button, text, images and others. 

4. anime.js:

Anime.js is a JavaScript animation library with a powerful API. It is an advanced library that works with HTML, CSS property, SVG, DOM attributes and JavaScript. 

Anime's built-in staggering system makes complex animation simple, and you can use multiple transform properties on a single HTML element with different time duration. 

You can control your animation with play/pause, restart and reverse. Animation parameters help you with direction, loop, autoplay. It's good for complex animated projects. 

5. Bounce.js:

Bounce.js is a powerful keyframes animation JavaScript library. By using this tool you can easily build your animation with the method of scale, rotate, translate and skew, it accepts an additional parameter. 

Bounce.js is a clean library and is supported by all browsers that support 3D transform and keyframe animations. 

6. Mo.js:

Mo.js is a JavaScript library that works with shape, shape swirl and bounce modules. 

You don't have to be a graphic designer to use this library, and it takes care of all  Bootstrapic effects for you. Its built-in components let you make buttery and crafty animations in no time. 

7. Wow.js:

Wow.js is a JavaScript library that works with animate.js, but you can also use other CSS libraries to change by change wow settings. 

Wow.js is a scroll animation library that performs CSS animation as you scroll down. Wow.js is small and lightweight, it provides all advanced options like - duration, delay, offset and iteration. 

8. Wicked.css:

Wicked.css is a CSS3 animation library. It helps you to add all wicked animations with simple classes including pulse, slide, zoom, spin and many more. 

You can use these effects to make your site more user-friendly. 

You can also perform scrolling animation with the help of Jquery or wow.js. 

9. Animista:

Animista is a tool that lets you generate your own CSS animations that can be reused on different projects. 
Animista provides you various options and has a collection of exciting animations like rotate, swirl, color-changing, swirl, slide and much more. You can play with it and use it on your project.