Animation Principles - Universal Reference

Animation Principles - Universal Reference is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dylantarre/animation-principles. It costs 30 tokens per session (846 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide to the 12 animation principles associated with Disney, such as preparing viewers for movement and making actions clear. It explains each idea for beginners and experienced animators.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when discussing animation, planning motion, teaching animation basics, or reviewing choices such as key poses, timing, staging, and anticipation.
Why use it?
It gives animators a shared vocabulary and practical guidance for making movement easier to understand and more expressive.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dylantarre/animation-principles/universal-reference
Any agent
npx skills add dylantarre/animation-principles --skill universal-reference
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dylantarre/animation-principles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for Animation Principles - Universal Reference

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dylantarre/animation-principles/universal-reference.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dylantarre/animation-principles/universal-reference)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dylantarre/animation-principles/universal-reference"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dylantarre/animation-principles/universal-reference.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 846 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00030 $0.00846
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00423
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00085

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8e1d0280997f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Animation Principles - Universal Reference scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/04-by-skill-level/universal-reference/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Animation Principles - Universal Reference

Disney's 12 principles work at every skill level. Here's each principle with scalable depth.

1. Squash and Stretch

Core idea: Objects deform to show motion and impact. Beginner: Ball flattens when it hits ground. Advanced: Volume must remain constant. Facial animation uses micro-squash for expression. Key insight: Even "rigid" objects can use the principle through camera shake or motion blur.

2. Anticipation

Core idea: Prepare the viewer for action. Beginner: Crouch before jump. Advanced: Anticipation size controls audience expectation. Absence creates surprise. Key insight: Every action that needs to read clearly needs setup.

3. Staging

Core idea: Present one clear idea at a time. Beginner: Put important things where viewers will look. Advanced: Silhouette test, negative space, compositional psychology. Key insight: Confusion is never the viewer's fault.

4. Straight Ahead and Pose to Pose

Core idea: Two methods - sequential vs. key-pose-first. Beginner: Different ways to approach the same animation. Advanced: Choose based on need: control vs. spontaneity. Hybrid approaches for complex shots. Key insight: The method shapes the result's energy.

5. Follow Through and Overlapping Action

Core idea: Different parts stop at different times. Beginner: Hair keeps moving after head stops. Advanced: Drag, settle, overlap hierarchy. Emotional implications of follow through weight. Key insight: Simultaneous stopping looks robotic.

6. Slow In and Slow Out

Core idea: Things accelerate and decelerate. Beginner: More drawings at start and end, fewer in middle. Advanced: Custom easing curves. Snap, bounce, drift variations. Key insight: Even spacing reads mechanical.

7. Arc

Core idea: Natural motion follows curves. Beginner: Arms swing in arcs, not straight lines. Advanced: Track all motion paths. Breaking arcs intentionally for mechanical/sudden effects. Key insight: Straight paths require justification.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 96 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 8e1d0280997f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Animation Principles - Universal Reference is a skill published in the GitHub repository dylantarre/animation-principles (79 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 846 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

google-agents-cli-onboarding

Onboarding entrypoint for agents-cli in Agent Platform. It should be used when the user wants to "create a new agent", "develop an agent", "build an agent using ADK", "run the agent locally", "debug agent code", "test an agent", "evaluate an agent", "deploy an agent", "publish an agent", "monitor an agent", or needs…

google/skills · 95 tokens

edu-math-tutorial

数学题分步讲解视频的领域知识。适用场景:(1) 用户给出一道数学题并要求做讲解/ 解题视频;(2) 用户说"讲解这道题"、"生成解题视频"、"make a math tutorial"; (3) 需要中文数学教学视频,涉及方程、公式或几何图形。本 skill 只提供领域 知识(题目拆解、讲解节奏、旁白文案规范、版式与 KaTeX 排版风格);画面、 配音与成片一律用 Creator 原生 Element 与工具从源头构建。.

agentscope-ai/QwenPaw · 146 tokens

81-pipecat

Create your Pipecat skill from official documentation, then learn to improve it throughout the chapter.

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry · 18 tokens

rust-learner

Learn Rust language features and crate updates. Use when user asks about Rust version changelog, what's new in Rust, crate updates, Cargo.toml dependencies, tokio/serde/axum features, or any Rust ecosystem questions.

actionbook/actionbook · 51 tokens

35-google-adk-reliable-agents

Create your Google Agent Development Kit skill in one prompt, then learn to improve it throughout the chapter.

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry · 19 tokens

36-anthropic-agents-kit-development

Create your Claude Agent SDK skill in one prompt, then learn to improve it throughout the chapter.

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry · 18 tokens