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Top 23 Animation Open-Source Projects
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Project mention: The Best 100 Free UI/UX Resources for Every Designer & Developer | dev.to | 2025-03-04
Animate.css animate.style Cross-browser CSS animations library.
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Project mention: Fastplotlib: Driving scientific discovery through data visualization | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-11
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Check Anime.js 🔥
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Lottie for Android, iOS, and React Native
Render After Effects animations natively on Android and iOS, Web, and React Native
Project mention: The Best 100 Free UI/UX Resources for Every Designer & Developer | dev.to | 2025-03-04Lottie airbnb.io/lottie Lightweight animations for apps and websites.
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Aseprite (Mi preferida)
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That parenthetical “or anything declarative really” is doing a lot of work, given that:
React is a tool for writing 3D scenes that can handle state updates: https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber
React is a tool for writing music that can handle state updates: https://github.com/FormidableLabs/react-music
React is a tool for writing infrastructure-as-code templates that… um… could with some additional work handle state updates: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/aws-terraform-generator-using...
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Project mention: Lottie from Airbnb – iOS library to render After Effects vector animations | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-20
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Project mention: Top 15 Animation Libraries for React & Modern Javascript Apps | dev.to | 2024-07-17
ScrollReveal is a JavaScript library for easily animating elements as they enter or leave the viewport. With over 22.2k stars on GitHub, it's perfect for scroll-based animations.
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Check GSAP 🔥
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Check Popmotion 🔥
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Check Mo.js 🔥
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To animate this, I'm using motion canvas, it's a very cool TS(yes) based npm package that allows you to animate using code, kind of like remotion except that... it was the first one I came across ok? I just came across remotion so not my problem!
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Project mention: Show HN: Mutable.ai Codebase chat that uses a Wiki for RAG | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-15
This is pretty cool, congrats on the launch. Could you run it on Blender? https://github.com/blender/blender
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Project mention: Designing for Code: Bridging the Gap Between Designers and Developers | dev.to | 2024-05-18
Design+Code by Dan Mall: https://designcode.io/
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auto-animate
A zero-config, drop-in animation utility that adds smooth transitions to your web app. You can use it with React, Vue, or any other JavaScript application.
Auto Animate
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SkeletonView
☠️ An elegant way to show users that something is happening and also prepare them to which contents they are awaiting
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Random three-body simulation generator
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Friction: Powerful motion graphics application to create vector animations
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Show HN: CFRS[]: Minimal turtle graphics with only 6 commands: C, F, R, S, [, ]
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animating gravitation physics
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Animation projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | animate.css | 81,417 |
| 2 | manim | 76,017 |
| 3 | anime.js | 51,014 |
| 4 | algorithm-visualizer | 47,203 |
| 5 | Lottie for Android, iOS, and React Native | 35,223 |
| 6 | aseprite | 31,077 |
| 7 | react-three-fiber | 28,366 |
| 8 | Lottie | 26,098 |
| 9 | PythonRobotics | 24,471 |
| 10 | scrollreveal | 22,472 |
| 11 | Hero | 22,192 |
| 12 | GreenSock-JS | 20,409 |
| 13 | popmotion | 20,075 |
| 14 | Mo.js | 18,581 |
| 15 | motion-canvas | 16,749 |
| 16 | blender | 14,426 |
| 17 | Spring | 14,092 |
| 18 | git-history | 13,598 |
| 19 | auto-animate | 13,212 |
| 20 | moviepy | 13,141 |
| 21 | SkeletonView | 12,710 |
| 22 | AndroidViewAnimations | 12,445 |
| 23 | G2 | 12,213 |
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