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title: Animation in Defold manual
brief: This manual describes Defold's animation support.
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# Animation

Defold has built-in support for many types of animation that you can use as a source of graphics for components:

* [Flip-book animation](/manuals/flipbook-animation) - Playing a series of still images in succession
* [Model animation](/manuals/model-animation) - Playing 3D skinned animations
* [Property animation](/manuals/property-animation) - Animate properties such as position, scale, rotation and many others

Additional animation formats can be added through extensions:

* [Rive animation](/extension-rive) - Playing vector based 2D skeletal animations
* [Spine animation](/extension-spine) - Playing textured 2D skeletal animations