# Animated Beam — component for backgrounds & gradients (react)

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Indigo backdrop with faint diagonal lines and thin light beams streaking down them at different speeds

- **Install:** `npx shadcn@latest add https://animata.design/r/background/animated-beam.json`
- **Registry:** animata · **Framework:** react · **License:** MIT
- **Docs and preview:** https://animata.design/docs/background/animated-beam
- **Source:** https://github.com/codse/animata/blob/main/animata/background/animated-beam.tsx
- **Example:** https://skills.varg.ai/previews/lib-animata-animated-beam.mp4?v=21972 (Captured from the library’s own demo page (Animata))
- **Time:** Drive from the frame. Runs on its own clock (requestAnimationFrame, timers, springs or CSS). Drive it from frame / fps before rendering, or the render drifts.
- **Runs:** local render, free
- **Aspect:** any

## Prompt that renders it frame-exact

Use Animated Beam from Animata (https://animata.design/docs/background/animated-beam, MIT) as a full-frame hero background with a title or quote on top. Each beam is a clipped strip running a CSS keyframe with its own --duration and --delay; those come from a seeded pseudo-random per index, so the layout is already repeatable and only the clock needs fixing. HyperFrames' CSS adapter can seek the keyframes once the iteration count is finite; in Remotion pause them and set animation-delay to (delay - frame / fps) seconds. Change the background gradient, beam colour and count, and keep text in the centre where the beams are sparse.

## Used in

- [Year in review / Wrapped](https://skills.varg.ai/video/wrapped.md)
- [Lyric video](https://skills.varg.ai/video/lyric-video.md)
- [Karaoke video](https://skills.varg.ai/video/karaoke.md)
- [Logo sting](https://skills.varg.ai/video/logo-sting.md)
- [Title sequence](https://skills.varg.ai/video/title-sequence.md)
- [Brand guidelines film](https://skills.varg.ai/video/brand-guidelines.md)
- [Stream overlay package](https://skills.varg.ai/video/stream-overlay.md)
- [Shader loop](https://skills.varg.ai/video/shader-loop.md)

## More backgrounds & gradients

- [Aurora](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.aurora.md) — `npx hyperframes add aurora`
- [Aurora Drift](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.aurora-drift.md) — `npx hyperframes add aurora-drift`
- [Flowing Gradient](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.flowing-gradient.md) — `npx hyperframes add flowing-gradient`
- [Mesh Gradient](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.mesh-gradient.md) — `npx hyperframes add mesh-gradient`
- [Mesh Gradient Background](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.mesh-gradient-bg.md) — `npx hyperframes add mesh-gradient-bg`
- [Minimal Gradient Background](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.mk-background.md) — `npx hyperframes add mk-background`