| name | css-animation-creator |
| description | Create professional CSS animations, transitions, micro-interactions, and complex motion design. Use when adding animations, hover effects, loading states, page transitions, scroll animations, or any motion design work. |
CSS Animation Creator
Build production-grade, accessible, GPU-efficient motion for web UIs using CSS, Tailwind, and Framer Motion.
Workflow
- Identify the purpose of the motion: feedback, delight, guidance, or storytelling.
- Choose the technique: CSS transitions for state changes, keyframes for looping or multi-step motion, Framer Motion or JS for orchestration and scroll-linked effects.
- Set timing and easing to match the interaction. Apply the timing and easing tables in
references/principles-and-timing.md.
- Author the animation. Pull ready-made keyframes and patterns from the reference files below rather than writing from scratch.
- Constrain animated properties to
transform and opacity for GPU acceleration. Apply references/performance.md.
- Honor reduced-motion preferences for every animation. Apply
references/accessibility.md.
- Verify on low-end devices and confirm no layout thrash before shipping.
Contents
references/principles-and-timing.md — Disney 12 principles mapped to UI, duration and easing tables.references/transitions.md — Transition syntax, easing functions, cubic-bezier presets, Tailwind transitions.references/keyframe-library.md — Keyframe syntax plus fade, scale, bounce, rotate, slide, and attention-seeker keyframes.references/loading-animations.md — Spinners, dots, skeleton loaders, shimmer, progress bars.references/micro-interactions.md — Button, hover, icon, form, and success/error interactions.references/page-transitions.md — View Transitions API, Framer Motion page and shared-layout transitions, staggered lists.references/scroll-animations.md — Intersection Observer, Framer Motion scroll hooks, native CSS scroll-driven animations.references/accessibility.md — prefers-reduced-motion CSS, Tailwind motion-safe/reduce, React hook.references/tailwind-config.md — Drop-in tailwind.config.js animation and keyframe definitions.references/performance.md — GPU-accelerated properties, will-change, contain, performance checklist.
