motion-and-storytelling SKILL.md skillA
motion-and-storytelling from dembrandt/dembrandt-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/motion-and-storytelling@git:20261001.b05848aPins git:20261001.b05848a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- dembrandt/dembrandt-skills
- Path
skills/motion-and-storytelling/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261001.b05848a, committed Oct 1, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 19, 2026
- Size
- 9,543 bytes
- Repository stars
- 183
- License
- MIT
Disney's animation principles and cinematic technique applied to UI motion. Use when designing transitions, scroll animations or onboarding motion.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Motion and Storytelling in UI
Animation and motion are not decoration — they are communication. When applied with the same discipline as typography or colour, they tell the user what is happening, where to look, and what the product feels like to use. The source material — Disney's 12 principles, cinematic language, comic book conventions — is centuries of accumulated knowledge about how to communicate through movement and sequence.
The key word is **subtlety**. In UI, motion should be felt, not watched.
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## Disney's 12 Principles Applied to UI
### 1. Squash and Stretch
Objects compress on impact and extend on acceleration. In UI: a button that scales down slightly on press and springs back communicates physicality and responsiveness.
```css
button:active { transform: scale(0.96); }
button { transition: transform 80ms ease-out; }
```
Use sparingly — reserved for primary CTAs and satisfying confirmations.
### 2. Anticipation
A small preparatory movement before the main action. In UI: a menu item shifting slightly before opening, or a loading indicator appearing before a transition begins, prepares the user for what is coming.
### 3. Staging
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/motion-and-storytelling@sha256:3e9bd0e4f4e7a33dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261001.b05848a, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_digcmkd3d6unub5d)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Apr 19, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 83 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261001.b05848a latest | 2026-10-01 | b05848a | 9,543 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260630.09a5db7 | 2026-06-30 | 09a5db7 | 9,710 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260419.85f3d0c | 2026-04-19 | 85f3d0c | 9,700 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9543 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
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Source
dembrandt/dembrandt-skills · 183 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_digcmkd3d6unub5d GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dembrandt/dembrandt-skills/motion-and-storytelling GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3e9bd0e4f4e7a33d60a54c9bf4090d46c7cdf090c7c7111667cd1af7b7331b73
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