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Animation in Bevy: The Big Picture

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Grégoire Locqueville

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Animation in Bevy: The Big Picture is Grégoire Locqueville's August 2026 blog essay that explains skeletal animation through Bevy's AnimationPlayer, AnimationGraph, NodeIndex, and AnimationGraphHandle types. Locqueville wrote it after finding the official Animated Mesh example hard to internalize without a conceptual map.

The post builds intuition from spawning a glTF hierarchy, locating the AnimationPlayer component, and connecting graph nodes before walking the Bevy example line by line. It targets readers who already understand Bevy ECS basics and want relationships among animation assets, players, and graphs rather than copy-pasted spawn code.

Intermediate Rust game developers evaluating Bevy 0.1x animation APIs benefit most. Prior exposure to scene graphs in other engines helps translate the terminology, though Locqueville defines each Bevy type as it appears.

The article is free in English on glocq.com with a French counterpart linked from the same site navigation.

Locqueville's Bevy essays are commonly shared in Rust gamedev communities as companion reading to official examples.