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Animation is one of the essential parts of creative web design and development. From simple scroll animation to heavy graphic based animation the uses of animation grows day by day in web development. From tiny, barely visible, loading spinners, to whole page transitions like a movie experience, animation reaches into every area of our designs.If you want to add animation in you website you will find a ton of options. Even a simple transition animation can beautify the interface of your website. Today we will discuss about 22 best animation tools which will hep you to achieve your desired result.

Best Collection of Web Animation Tools

1. ANIMATE.CSS

Animate.css is one of the best open source animation platform. It covers all kinds of animation. It starts form simple fading to bouncing then it covers all the other animation too. For example twisting, swing, tada, wobble effects etc. The bottom line is it covers all the basic animation for any project.

 

 

2. MAGIC ANIMATIONS

Magic animation is more like Animate.CSS but it covers only exceptional effects. It covers all the complex animation which animate.css cannot handle. For example Tin, Bomb, Boing, On the Space. These animations are enough to improve the user experience.

 

 

 

3. BOUNCE.JS

Basically, it’s a small playground for your CSS based animation experiment. You can add, delete, update components and tune the settings to bring everything live. Continue your experiment until you are happy with the result. Then when you are happy with the result just export the CSS file.

 

 

 

4. ANIJS

Anijs is a library to raise your web design without coding. It works on four main methods. They are if, on, do, to. If some event(click, scroll, mouseover and more), On any element (css selector), Do some behavior(Rotate animation), To (any element).

 

 

 

5. LAZY LINE PAINTER

SVG animations are one of the best ongoing trends in web design and development. Lazy Line Painter made SVG path animations so easy to use. All you have to do is take your line artwork from the Illustrator in SVG format. Then upload it to the converter. The converter will generate a JQuery file. This jQuery file will handle the animation process. You can also make changes right inside the code.

 

 

6. SVG.JS

This open source project offers you an instinctive setting where you can operate and animate SVG. SVG.JS is free. It has clean syntax and combined API. You can do whatever you want: animate size, color, position, text paths; transform components; bind events etc.

 

 

7. MOTION UI

This is not like the previous examples. Motion UI uses SASS. It takes the advantages of SASS to create fascinating CSS animations. For this reason, it becomes more popular day by day. It works well in all browser except 1E9.

 

 

 

8. ANIME.JS

ANIME.JS comes with a remarkable set of features. This feature allows you to use multiple animations, orchestrating different instances, drawing shapes and lines and building individual animations. This animation engine is fully powered by JavaScript.

 

 

9. MO.JS

The full meaning of MO.JS is the motion for the Web. This animation engine is so fast and at the same time so easy to use. You can create modal transitions, bubble layouts, bursting animations and much more.

 

 

 

10. VIVUS.JS

This animation engine represents three types of animation: synchronizing, delaying and revealing. It can also draw SVG in a smooth and natural way. This types of animation will give a lovely user experience.

 

 

 

11. BONSAI.JS

It’s a JavaScript library for innovative graphics manipulation. BONSAI.JS has a very simple and pretty API. It can also render SVG. You can use the online test drive for more experience. After creating any animation you can download the samples.

 

 

 

12. ANIMO.JS

Animo.js is a comparatively small animation tool. It can handle transitions and animations. Besides simple animations, it has some extra tools. You can use this tool for countdown animation. This is very easy to use. You can easily achieve you desired result with this.

 

 

 

13. CSSHAKE

This animation tool has 11 classes that force the elements of your DOM to shake. You can choose the horizontal and vertical direction, different animation type (fixed, crazy, constant, chunk), and intensity (slow or hard) or just go for the default option.

 

 

 

14. JQUERY DRAWSVG

It’s a powerful jQuery animation engine. This animation engine mainly used for SVG animations. You can use any image a very dramatic look and effects with this tool. Besides its very easy to use.

 

 

 

15. FOXHOLDER

This is a package of 15 nice and tiny effects. These effects are very effective and useful. You can use this engine for awesome text animation. Theses text effects are very useful and can increase your animation arsenal.

 

 

 

16. SCROLLREVEAL.JS

This is the best tool for creating smooth scroll animation. You can handle the effects and time delay with the reveal () function. This works perfectly with all the browser.

 

 

 

17. AOS

The full meaning of AOS is animation on scroll and it does exactly what it says. It provides you a bunch of smooth and lively animation on scroll. It is easy to use and very dynamic. Even you can change the code if you want.

 

 

 

18. RELLAX

Do you love parallax effects? This animation engine can do it for you. Basically, it’s a light weight JavaScript library which can give an intelligent touch of 3D dimension to interfaces.

 

 

 

19. TILT.JS

This tool produces fascinating parallax-driven tilt effect. It can move objects into a sloping position replicating 3D in a basic 2D plane. You can an axis which makes the effect more appealing and exciting. You can also go with the basic floating parallax effect if you want.

 

 

 

20. CURVE.JS

Curve.js will help you to create animated lines and shapes. This will help you to make line animation with “dance” and “wave” effects. You can create various geometric shapes with this tool.

 

 

 

21. PARTICLES.JS

Nowadays particle animation for the hero area is a trend. You will see this kind of animation throughout 2017. Particle.js will help you to create this kind of animation. Mainly this is a JavaScript library that does all the works. You can set preferences like color, number, shape, size, opacity etc. After that, all you have to do is just simply export the result.

 

 

 

22. ANIMATEMATE

It’s not so fancy like previous examples but AnimateMate is a small tool for producing and exporting small-scale animations from your Sketch environment. it allows you to play with keyframes, add easing functions, control sequences and some more.

 

 

 

That’s all for today. We discussed about 22 best web animation tools of 2017. We hope that this tools will help you to learn and use animation in your website. You can use this tool for your personal and professional use. Most of them are free to use. We hope that this web animation tools will increase your website’s user experiences. Let us know which animation tool you like most. Please share this article with your friends.