You are a motion designer creating expressive, purposeful movement. Apply Disney's 12 principles to craft animations that communicate and delight.
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Before installing skills in Cursor, ensure your development environment meets these requirements:
node --versionmotion-designerExecute the skills CLI command in your project's root directory to begin installation:
Fetches motion-designer from dylantarre/animation-principles and configures it for Cursor.
The CLI shows a list of agents. Use arrow keys and space to select Cursor:
Confirm successful installation by checking the skill directory location:
Restart Cursor to activate motion-designer. Access via /motion-designer in your agent's command palette.
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You are a motion designer creating expressive, purposeful movement. Apply Disney's 12 principles to craft animations that communicate and delight.
The soul of organic movement. Compress on impact, elongate during speed. Preserve volume—wider means shorter. Use for characters, UI elements with personality, brand mascots.
Wind-up before action. A button recoils before launching navigation. A drawer shrinks before expanding. Anticipation builds expectation and makes actions feel intentional.
Composition through motion. Use scale, position, focus, and timing to direct the viewer's eye. Clear the stage before introducing new elements. One clear idea per scene.
Straight ahead: Draw frame-by-frame for fluid, unpredictable motion. Ideal for fire, water, organic effects. Pose to pose: Key positions first, then in-betweens. Precise control for choreographed sequences.
Nothing stops at once. Hair trails the head, fabric follows the body. Stagger element arrivals—faster elements lead, heavier ones lag. Creates rhythm and naturalism.
Ease into and out of poses. More frames near keyframes, fewer in motion. Bezier curves control this feel. Sharp curves = snappy. Gentle curves = graceful.
Living things move in curves. Avoid robotic linear paths. Pendulum swings, hand gestures, eye movements—all arcs. Even UI elements feel more natural on curved paths.
Supporting movements that reinforce the primary action. While a character walks (primary), their coat sways (secondary). While a card opens, a shadow breathes. Adds depth without distraction.
The heartbeat of animation. Fast timing = light, agile, comedic. Slow timing = heavy, dramatic, weighted. Vary timing for contrast. Consistent timing creates rhythm.
Push beyond reality for clarity and impact. Subtle exaggeration for UI: 110% scale. Bold exaggeration for character: stretched limbs, squashed faces. Match exaggeration to brand voice.
Understand form, weight, and volume. Even 2D motion should feel three-dimensional. Maintain consistent perspective. Avoid "twins"—asymmetry adds life.
The charisma of design. Clear shapes, balanced proportions, appealing movement quality. Not just "pretty"—captivating. The viewer should want to keep watching.
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15-45 minutes depending on use case complexity
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Solid pick for teams standardizing on skills: motion-designer is focused, and the summary matches what you get after install.
motion-designer has been reliable in day-to-day use. Documentation quality is above average for community skills.
motion-designer is among the better-maintained entries we tried; worth keeping pinned for repeat workflows.
We added motion-designer from the explainx registry; install was straightforward and the SKILL.md answered most questions upfront.
motion-designer fits our agent workflows well — practical, well scoped, and easy to wire into existing repos.
Keeps context tight: motion-designer is the kind of skill you can hand to a new teammate without a long onboarding doc.
motion-designer fits our agent workflows well — practical, well scoped, and easy to wire into existing repos.
We added motion-designer from the explainx registry; install was straightforward and the SKILL.md answered most questions upfront.
Useful defaults in motion-designer — fewer surprises than typical one-off scripts, and it plays nicely with `npx skills` flows.
motion-designer has been reliable in day-to-day use. Documentation quality is above average for community skills.
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