Motion and animation

8/30/2026 19 min

AI video editors managed through Codex and Claude Code

What video editors can be controlled from the coding agent: MCP servers for Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve and After Effects, video-use agent editors, Pireel, OpenChatCut, kinocut, code-first Remotion and Revideo engines. Comparison, installation, limitations

Motion and animation

7/26/2026 6 min

Palmier Pro: video editor, in which the AI agent works directly in the timeline

Palmier Pro combines macOS mounting, generative models and a local MCP server: we understand what an agent can do in a project, what parts are open and who should try the tool.

Motion and animation

7/16/2026 38 min

Figma Motion + AI: 10 Prompts That Will Invigorate the Layout and Strengthen the Portfolio

A static layout can be neat and visually strong, but still feel like a collection of pictures. The user does not see how the card is revealed, where the old content goes and what happens after clicking. The customer looks at twelve frames and is forced to assemble the product in his head. The short animation shows the hierarchy, system response, and character of the product. In the portfolio, she separates "I drew the screen" from "I designed the behavior." And Figma Motion now allows you to collect movement on the timeline, generate key frames through Figma Agent and transfer accurate parameters to development through MCP. Below is a step-by-step process, ten universal prompts and a separate copyable instruction for the AI agent: transitions between screens, clicks, hover, loading, success, error, reduced motion and mandatory QA. The main limitation is one: the movement should explain the interface, not turn it into a presentation, where every second headline flies.

Motion and animation

6/14/2026 9 min

How to Show What AI Thinks: Patterns of Agent Progress Animation

Spinner is designed for operations with a length of 0.5-2 seconds. LLM query takes 4-15 seconds. Multi-step task of the agent - up to a few minutes. During this time, the spinner ceases to work as an indicator of progress and becomes a source of anxiety: “What’s going on?”, “The system is hovering?”, “Is it worth waiting?”

Motion and animation

6/14/2026 8 min

When animation interferes: signals that you overdid - and how to roll back

The point of transition from “helps” to “interferes” passes unnoticed. Added one animation - good. Then another one. Then more. At some point, the user begins to wait until everything is finished before he can continue working.

Motion and animation

6/14/2026 9 min

AI Animates for You: What Tool 2026 Really Works

The AI in animation 2026 is not one tool. These are different classes for different tasks. Mixing their purpose is the most common mistake: expect a video generation tool to write CSS animation, or that a code agent will create illustrative animation from scratch.

Motion and animation

6/14/2026 8 min

Transitions that do not nauseate: screen changing patterns for mobile and web

Switching between screens is the most common motion pattern and the most common breaking UX. A bad transition is disorienting: the user does not understand where he was, where he is now, what happened.

Motion and animation

6/14/2026 8 min

Easing, duration, delay: three parameters that make animation live, not cartoon

You can take the right type of animation, the right component, and still get something mechanical or cartoonish. Three parameters determine how much animation feels like real: easing, duration, delay.

Motion and animation

6/14/2026 8 min

Motion Design That Helps, Not Irritates: Principles That Work

The interface without animations is not neutral. It communicates through instant switching states that the brain has difficulty tracking. I pressed the button and suddenly found myself on another page. Did something happen? Where was I? Where am I now?

Motion and animation

6/12/2026 10 min

Lottie: How to send animation to production without pain and loss of quality

The designer made a beautiful animation in After Effects. The developer got the file. Then the pain begins: the GIF is too heavy, the video does not scale, SVG does not animate properly. Lottie solves this – but only if you know how to cook it. Lottie is a format that converts After Effects animations to JSON. The file weighs 600 times less than a GIF of the same quality, renders natively on the web, iOS, Android and React Native, and scales losslessly. The problems do not start with the format, but with the fact that no one explained the rules at every stage - from the designer to the deploy.

Motion and animation

6/12/2026 11 min

Framer Motion in One Evening: Animate React Components as Pros

Most Framer Motion tutorials teach the same thing: Replace "<div" with "<motion.div" and add "animate={{{opacity: 1 }}}" is done. It takes ten minutes, not an evening. The evening is needed for another: to understand why animations twitch, how to properly animate the output of the element, how not to inflate the bundle and why the options are not syntactic sugar, but a fundamentally different approach to orchestration. This guide is about what is really needed in the project. No theory for theory.

Motion and animation

6/12/2026 11 min

CSS animations without a library: a production checklist

A practical CSS animation guide: transitions, keyframes, transform, opacity, reduced motion, interaction states and production limits.

Motion and animation

6/12/2026 14 min

Animation libraries for websites in 2026: what to take and at what stage

When you generate a site through AI, animation is the last frontier where the question of “what to use” still needs to be solved. Lovable will default to Motion. Cursor will offer GSAP if requested. But the choice of tool does not depend on personal preferences, but on the task: a simple transition, a scrolling effect, an interactive component or a finished file from the designer. Below are eight tools broken down by real-world use cases with prices up to June 2026.