What is interactive animation, for example on a website?

Question

Design

Good afternoon. My colleagues and I clashed a little on the topic of animation, and in our dialogue such a phrase appeared, interactive animation. What does this mean? How to understand that, for example, some kind of animation on the site, a smoothly drop-down list, the smooth appearance of blocks from different sides, parallax when scrolling or moving the mouse across the screen, etc. effects. How to separate them and are they separated at all? Or are all the animations used on the site interactive?

Answer 1

Interactive is from the overseas word interaction , which translates as interaction. Therefore, an interactive element is one that can be interacted with.
Here's an example from your example: parallax is an interactive animation, because until the user does something (turns the mouse wheel, moves the cursor), nothing will happen on the screen; but the falling snow is a non-interactive animation, because the snow doesn't care if the user does something or not.