# 12 principles of animation

> Use when motion is technically fine but reads as lifeless or mechanical.

Audit animation code against Disney's 12 principles adapted for web. Use when reviewing motion, implementing animations, or checking animation quality. Outputs file:line findings.

## Facts

- Type: Agent skill
- Discipline: Design
- Author: Raphael Salaja (https://github.com/raphaelsalaja)
- Upstream: https://github.com/raphaelsalaja/skill/blob/main/skills/12-principles-of-animation/SKILL.md
- Source file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raphaelsalaja/skill/main/skills/12-principles-of-animation/SKILL.md (5045 bytes, sha256:2027056a645c5ffdf17047d0e74b78a60c414d91da45d983ffd452548ee1e1ac)
- Licence: none declared by the repo
- Upstream copy last changed: 2026-09-17
- Status: listed, not yet ruled on by the curator

## Use it

I want to use the 12 principles of animation skill by Raphael Salaja.
This is what it does, in the author's own words: Audit animation code against Disney's 12 principles adapted for web. Use when reviewing motion, implementing animations, or checking animation quality. Outputs file:line findings.
Download the whole folder at https://github.com/raphaelsalaja/skill/tree/main/skills/12-principles-of-animation, SKILL.md and every file beside it, into your skills directory: ~/.claude/skills/12-principles-of-animation/ for Claude Code, ~/.agents/skills/12-principles-of-animation/ for Codex, ~/.cursor/skills/12-principles-of-animation/ for Cursor. Get it from the author's repo, not from startupskills.dev.
Then tell me the path you installed it to and how to invoke it.

Nothing here is vendored: install from the author's repo. This file carries none of the author's file.

## Links

- Page: https://startupskills.dev/raphaelsalaja/12-principles-of-animation
- Author: https://startupskills.dev/raphaelsalaja
- Index: https://startupskills.dev/llms.txt

## The file

Not reproduced here: the repo does not license republication. Read it on the author's GitHub:
https://github.com/raphaelsalaja/skill/blob/main/skills/12-principles-of-animation/SKILL.md