Attention

Swing Animation

Rocks back and forth around its top edge.

Card title

Supporting copy goes here.

Edit this in the studio

Opens with this animation loaded. Nothing is uploaded — the scene travels in the link.

animation.css
.swing {
  transform: translate3d(130px, 90px, 0);
  box-shadow: 0px 10px 30px 0px #00000059;
  width: 220px;
  height: 140px;
  background: #1c1e2a;
  border-radius: 18px;
  color: #e7e9ee;
  font-size: 14px;
  animation: swing-anim 900ms linear 0ms infinite both;
  will-change: transform, opacity;
}

@keyframes swing-anim {
  0% {
    transform: translate3d(130px, 90px, 0);
    animation-timing-function: ease-in-out;
  }
  20% {
    transform: translate3d(130px, 90px, 0) rotate(15deg);
    animation-timing-function: ease-in-out;
  }
  40% {
    transform: translate3d(130px, 90px, 0) rotate(-10deg);
    animation-timing-function: ease-in-out;
  }
  60% {
    transform: translate3d(130px, 90px, 0) rotate(5deg);
    animation-timing-function: ease-in-out;
  }
  80% {
    transform: translate3d(130px, 90px, 0) rotate(-5deg);
    animation-timing-function: ease-in-out;
  }
  100% {
    transform: translate3d(130px, 90px, 0);
  }
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .swing {
    animation: none;
    transition: none;
  }
}

Why it is built this way

All of the character here is in transform-origin. Rotating around the centre looks like a wobble; rotating around the top makes it hang and swing like a sign on a hook.

What it animates

1 property across 1 CSS declaration. The bar shows when each one is moving.

Rotate
transform
0 0
6 stopscompositor

What it costs to run

Rotate is handled by the compositor: no layout, no repaint, and the work can run off the main thread. This is the cheap end of CSS animation, which is why it stays smooth on a slow phone where other properties will not.

It runs for 0.90s across 6 keyframe stops, with every property moving over the same window.

One curve throughout: Ease In Out on a card. Keeping a single easing across every property is what makes a multi-property animation read as one movement rather than several things happening at once.

Accessibility

Nothing here hides content — rotate moves over 0.90s and the element is visible throughout. The exported prefers-reduced-motion guard still silences it, which matters most for the looping ones: motion that never stops is the kind that makes people feel unwell.

Related animations

swingrotateattentiontransform-origin