Hey everyone! 👋
Welcome to Day 3 of my journey learning Anime.js. Today was all about mastering timelines and chaining animations, which opens the door to building complex and beautifully sequenced effects.
🎯 Stage 3: Timelines & Chaining Animations
✅ Topics I Covered:
-
anime.timeline()
– Creating a sequence of animations -
Staggering animations using
anime.stagger()
- Chaining multiple steps with different targets
- Nested animations – Animating grouped or layered elements one after another
💡 What I Learned
Today’s focus was on understanding how to build multi-step animation flows that are easier to manage and visually impactful. I learned:
- How to use
.add()
with timelines to structure animation steps. - How to delay and stagger child elements for a smooth chain reaction effect.
- Creating interactive replay effects and entry animations using nested sequences.
- The beauty of timelines in creating story-like animations — like building a character from head to toe or an animated scene.
🧩 Practice Task
As a warm-up, I created a minor animation using timeline chaining:
Loading Effect
🎬 Main Project of the Day: Character Intro Scene
Animated Character Intro Scene
Features Included:
- Timed entry animation of character body parts
- Sequential movements: slide, rotate, scale, and fade-in
- A clean and smooth chained effect using Anime.js timelines
🧠 Practice Questions from Day 3
🟢 Basic:
- Create a timeline that scales and fades in a box.
- Animate a group of elements using
anime.stagger()
with different delays. - Create a looped loading animation using timelines.
🟡 Intermediate:
- Chain an animation that rotates a square, then moves it up and fades it.
- Use nested timelines to animate a complex figure with head, body, arms.
- Animate an image gallery reveal one image at a time using staggering.
🔴 Advanced:
- Make a button animation that plays a 3-step sequence on click.
- Create a timeline that animates a scene like a sunrise: sky, sun, mountains.
- Build a typing effect where each letter appears with staggered opacity.
- Combine multiple timelines into a master one to animate an entire page layout.
🧾 Summary
Today’s lesson truly felt like levelling up in animation skills. Timelines allow more control and cleaner code, and chaining animations brings creativity and storytelling into front-end design. It was super exciting to see how sequential animations can create delightful UI effects.
📌 Connect with Me
- 🔗 GitHub: Anticoder03
- 🧠 Dev.to: @anticoder03
- 💼 LinkedIn: Ashish Prajapati
🎨 "Every animation begins with a single frame — keep pushing pixels and you'll paint motion itself."
— Anonymous
Let me know what you think or share your favorite Anime.js timeline tricks! 🚀
See you in Day 4! 💥