Animato

Italian: animato — animated, lively, with life and movement.

A professional-grade, renderer-agnostic animation library for Rust.

Zero mandatory dependencies. no_std-ready. Built as a clean Cargo workspace — use only the crates you need.

Works everywhere: TUIs, Web (WASM), Bevy games, embedded targets, CLI tools, and native desktop apps.

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Why Animato?

Most Rust animation crates are either too minimal (just easing functions) or too coupled to a specific renderer or framework. Animato sits in between:

• Computes values, never renders. You own the render loop; Animato just tells you what the value is at each frame.
• Workspace architecture. Each concern lives in its own crate. You don't download wgpu just to animate a progress bar.
• no_std core. The trait system, all easing functions, Tween<T>, and Spring compile without std or heap allocation.
• Builder pattern everywhere. No positional argument confusion; every optional field has a sensible default.
• Generic over your types. Implement Interpolate once and animate any value — f32, [f32; 3], your custom color type, anything.

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Crates

Shipped in v0.2.0:

Crate	Description	no_std
animato-core	Traits (Interpolate, Animatable, Update, Playable) + 31 easing functions	yes
animato-tween	Tween<T>, KeyframeTrack<T>, Loop, TweenState, TweenBuilder	partial
animato-timeline	Timeline, Sequence, stagger, At positioning	alloc
animato-spring	Spring, SpringN<T>, SpringConfig presets	✅
animato-driver	AnimationDriver, Clock, WallClock, MockClock	—
animato	Facade crate — re-exports all of the above	—

Planned in future versions (see ROADMAP.md):

Crate	Version	Description
animato-path	v0.4.0	Bezier, CatmullRom, SVG path parser, shape morph
animato-physics	v0.5.0	Inertia, DragState, GestureRecognizer
animato-color	v0.6.0	Perceptual color interpolation (Lab, Oklch, Linear)
animato-bevy	v0.7.0	AnimatoPlugin for Bevy
animato-wasm	v0.7.0	RafDriver, FLIP, SplitText, ScrollSmoother
animato-gpu	v0.9.0	GpuAnimationBatch — 10K+ tweens per frame on GPU

Most users only need the facade:

[dependencies]
animato = "0.2"

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Quick Start

Animate a single value

use animato::{Tween, Easing, Update};

let mut tween = Tween::new(0.0_f32, 100.0)
    .duration(1.0)
    .easing(Easing::EaseOutCubic)
    .build();

// In your update loop — pass dt (seconds since last frame):
tween.update(0.016); // ~60fps tick
println!("{}", tween.value()); // current interpolated value

Spring physics

use animato::{Spring, SpringConfig, Update};

let mut spring = Spring::new(SpringConfig::wobbly());
spring.set_target(200.0);

// Animate until settled:
while !spring.is_settled() {
    spring.update(1.0 / 60.0);
}
println!("settled at {}", spring.position());

Loop modes

use animato::{Tween, Loop, Easing, Update};

let mut tween = Tween::new(0.0_f32, 100.0)
    .duration(1.0)
    .easing(Easing::EaseInOutSine)
    .looping(Loop::PingPong)
    .build();

for _ in 0..600 {
    tween.update(1.0 / 60.0);
}
println!("{}", tween.value()); // oscillates 0 ↔ 100

AnimationDriver — manage many animations

use animato::{Tween, Easing, AnimationDriver, WallClock, Clock};

let mut driver = AnimationDriver::new();
let mut clock  = WallClock::new();

let id = driver.add(
    Tween::new(0.0_f32, 1.0).duration(2.0).easing(Easing::EaseInOutSine).build()
);

loop {
    let dt = clock.delta();
    driver.tick(dt);

    if !driver.is_active(id) { break; }
}

Multi-dimensional spring

use animato::{SpringN, SpringConfig, Update};

let mut spring: SpringN<[f32; 3]> = SpringN::new(SpringConfig::stiff(), [0.0; 3]);
spring.set_target([100.0, 200.0, 300.0]);

while !spring.is_settled() {
    spring.update(1.0 / 60.0);
}
let [x, y, z] = spring.position();

Keyframe tracks

use animato::{Easing, KeyframeTrack, Update};

let mut track = KeyframeTrack::new()
    .push_eased(0.0, 0.0_f32, Easing::EaseOutCubic)
    .push(1.0, 100.0);

track.update(0.5);
assert!(track.value().unwrap() > 50.0);

Timeline composition

use animato::{At, Timeline, Tween, Update};

let fade = Tween::new(0.0_f32, 1.0).duration(1.0).build();
let slide = Tween::new(0.0_f32, 100.0).duration(1.0).build();

let mut timeline = Timeline::new()
    .add("fade", fade, At::Start)
    .add("slide", slide, At::Label("fade"));

timeline.play();
timeline.update(0.5);
assert_eq!(timeline.get::<Tween<f32>>("slide").unwrap().value(), 50.0);

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Feature Flags

[dependencies]
animato = { version = "0.2", features = ["serde"] }

v0.2.0 features:

Feature	What it adds
default	std + tween + timeline + spring + driver
std	Wall clock, heap-backed composition types
tween	Tween<T>, KeyframeTrack<T>, Loop, TweenState
timeline	Timeline, Sequence, stagger
spring	Spring, SpringN<T>, all presets
driver	AnimationDriver, Clock variants
serde	Serialize/Deserialize on all public types

Features planned for future versions:

Feature	Version	What it adds
path	v0.4.0	Bezier, MotionPath, SVG parser
physics	v0.5.0	Inertia, DragState, GestureRecognizer
color	v0.6.0	Perceptual color interpolation via palette
bevy	v0.7.0	AnimatoPlugin for Bevy
wasm	v0.7.0	RafDriver + WASM bindings
gpu	v0.9.0	GpuAnimationBatch via wgpu
tokio	v0.3.0	.wait().await on Timeline completion

no_std usage

[dependencies]
animato-core   = { version = "0.2", default-features = false }
animato-tween  = { version = "0.2", default-features = false }
animato-spring = { version = "0.2", default-features = false }

Available in no_std: Easing, Tween<T>, Spring, all Interpolate blanket impls. KeyframeTrack<T>, Timeline, and SpringN<T> require allocation.

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Easing Functions

31 easing functions available as Easing::EaseOutCubic (enum) or ease_out_cubic(t) (free function):

Group	Variants
Linear	Linear
Polynomial	EaseIn/Out/InOut × Quad, Cubic, Quart, Quint (12 total)
Sinusoidal	EaseIn/Out/InOutSine
Exponential	EaseIn/Out/InOutExpo
Circular	EaseIn/Out/InOutCirc
Back (overshoot)	EaseIn/Out/InOutBack
Elastic	EaseIn/Out/InOutElastic
Bounce	EaseIn/Out/InOutBounce
Escape hatch	Custom(fn(f32) -> f32)

Advanced variants (CubicBezier, Steps, RoughEase, etc.) are planned for v0.3.0+.

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Bevy Integration

use bevy::prelude::*;
use animato_bevy::{AnimatoPlugin, TweenCompleted};
use animato::Tween;

fn main() {
    App::new()
        .add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)
        .add_plugins(AnimatoPlugin)
        .add_systems(Startup, spawn_animated)
        .add_systems(Update, on_tween_done)
        .run();
}

fn spawn_animated(mut commands: Commands) {
    commands.spawn((
        SpriteBundle::default(),
        Tween::new([0.0_f32, 0.0], [300.0, 0.0])
            .duration(1.0)
            .easing(Easing::EaseOutBack)
            .build(),
    ));
}

fn on_tween_done(mut events: EventReader<TweenCompleted>) {
    for ev in events.read() {
        println!("Entity {:?} finished animating", ev.entity);
    }
}

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WASM Integration

[dependencies]
animato = { version = "0.2", features = ["wasm"] }

use wasm_bindgen::prelude::*;
use animato::{Tween, Easing};
use animato::wasm::RafDriver;

#[wasm_bindgen]
pub struct App {
    tween:  Tween<f32>,
    driver: RafDriver,
}

#[wasm_bindgen]
impl App {
    #[wasm_bindgen(constructor)]
    pub fn new() -> Self {
        Self {
            tween:  Tween::new(0.0_f32, 500.0).duration(1.5).easing(Easing::EaseOutBounce).build(),
            driver: RafDriver::new(),
        }
    }

    // Call from JavaScript requestAnimationFrame callback:
    pub fn tick(&mut self, timestamp_ms: f64) { self.driver.tick(timestamp_ms); }
    pub fn value(&self) -> f32 { self.tween.value() }
}

Build: wasm-pack build --target web --features wasm

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Architecture

Animato is a focused Cargo workspace with additional planned crates through v1.0. See ARCHITECTURE.md for the full design document — crate boundaries, module specifications, type system design, data flow diagrams, and performance guidelines.

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Examples

cargo run --example basic_tween
cargo run --example spring_demo
cargo run --example keyframe_track
cargo run --example timeline_sequence

# Coming in future versions:
# cargo run --example motion_path         # v0.4.0
# cargo run --example color_animation     # v0.6.0
# cargo run --example tui_progress        # v0.7.0

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Running Tests

# All tests, all features:
cargo test --workspace --all-features

# no_std check:
cargo test --workspace --no-default-features

# Benchmarks:
cargo bench

# Docs:
cargo doc --workspace --all-features --open

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Roadmap

See ROADMAP.md for the full versioned plan from v0.1.0 to v1.0.0.

Current status: v0.2.0 — Composition shipped

Next	Milestone
v0.3.0	Control — callbacks, time scale, CubicBezier/Steps easing
v0.4.0	Paths — Bezier, SVG, motion paths

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Contributing

Contributions are welcome — bug reports, feature suggestions, documentation improvements, and pull requests.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to set up the workspace, run tests, and submit a PR.

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Support

If Animato is useful to you, consider supporting ongoing development:

• ⭐ Star the repo on GitHub
• ☕ Buy Me a Coffee
• 💖 GitHub Sponsors

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License

Licensed under either of:

• MIT License
• Apache License, Version 2.0

at your option.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this project shall be dual-licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.