web-animation-skills

This skill should be used when the user asks to "fix janky CSS animation", "make animation 60fps", "stop layout thrashing", "animate width/height/top/left smoothly", "convert animation to transform", "animate box-shadow performantly", "animate height auto", "FLIP animation", or "why is my scroll/hover animation choppy".

This skill should be used when the user asks to "respect prefers-reduced-motion", "honor reduced motion", "make my animations accessible", "fix vestibular / motion-sickness issues", "add a useReducedMotion hook", "gate GSAP / Framer Motion / Lenis for reduced motion", or "meet WCAG 2.3.3 / C39". Provides tiered (not all-or-nothing) reduced-motion patterns in CSS and JS.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "make an ASCII animation", "build a terminal/CLI intro or loader", "convert an image or video to ASCII art", "add an ASCII shader/post-effect to a canvas or Three.js scene", "create retro/hacker text-character motion", or "animate text characters with a brightness ramp". Covers generative ASCII fields, image/video/3D-to-ASCII, and animated character art for both web and terminal.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "add a glassmorphism effect", "frosted glass UI", "Apple liquid glass style", "frosted blur card", "translucent glass panel animation", "make a frosted nav bar", "build a glass modal/dialog", "animate a glass card on hover", or "add a refracting liquid-glass hero". Covers frosted translucent panels with backdrop-filter blur, edge/specular highlights, SVG liquid-glass refraction, motion on hover/scroll/enter, and accessible reduced-transparency fallbacks.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "build a scroll animation", "add ScrollTrigger", "pin a section while scrolling", "scrub an animation to scroll", "create a hero timeline", "do a horizontal scroll section", "split text and animate words", "animate a layout change with GSAP Flip", "sync ScrollTrigger with Lenis", "Lenis smooth scroll jittery", "ScrollTrigger markers drift", "ScrollTrigger pins break with Lenis/Locomotive", or "set up smooth scroll with GSAP pinning". Covers GSAP timelines, ScrollTrigger, SplitText, Flip, and Lenis/Locomotive smooth-scroll sync for code-driven web motion.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "add a Lottie animation", "play a .lottie or .json animation", "integrate a Bodymovin/After Effects animation on web or mobile", "control Lottie playback / segments", "make a scroll-driven Lottie", "recolor a Lottie at runtime", or "export an AE animation to Lottie". Covers dotLottie/lottie-web integration, playback control, interactivity, theming, and the AE export checklist.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "add a hover/press effect", "animate a toggle or switch", "build an animated like button", "make a toast/snackbar slide in", "animate a drawer or modal", "animate list reordering or add/remove", "do a shared-element layout transition", or "polish UI feedback". Covers UI motion with Framer Motion (motion/react) and modern CSS.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "animate page or route transitions", "add a page transition or crossfade between views", "animate route changes in Next.js App Router", "use the View Transitions API", "AnimatePresence exit doesn't fire on navigation", or "Framer Motion exit animation not working / exit animation before unmount in Next.js". Covers enter/exit page-transition animation with the View Transitions API and Framer Motion, for Next.js App Router and general SPA routing.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "animate an SVG", "make a line draw itself on", "do a stroke draw-on / signature animation", "morph one shape into another", "move an element along a path", "animate an icon/logo", or "animate an SVG gradient or filter". Covers stroke-dashoffset draw-on, path morphing, motion-along-path, and animated icons/gradients/filters via CSS, SMIL, and GSAP.