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Motion Cursor Image Trail

Images appear and fade along the cursor path in a section.

Full screen Try a theme

Choose the primitives library your project already uses. Both look the same: your theme, not the variant, controls colors, shape, type and motion.

About this motion

What it's for

  • Images appear and fade along the cursor path in a section.
  • Mouse trail that spawns pictures as you move.
  • Cursor image trail effect for a portfolio hero.

For A single hover preview is wanted, use Motion Image Reveal Hover.

Includes

  • Image trail on pointer path
  • Spawn by distance
  • Pooled elements
  • Tilt into travel
  • Drift and fade
  • Custom images
  • Scoped to a section
  • Fine pointer only

Works with

  • Radix UI and Base UI primitives (pick the one your project uses)
  • React 19 and Tailwind CSS 4 in Next.js (App Router), Vite, React Router or TanStack Start, installed with the agentic-ui or shadcn CLI
  • Your theme tokens, in light and dark mode

Install

Included with Agentic UI Kit (one-time license). Install needs your license key: see pricing · connect your project.

Agentic UI CLI
agentic-ui add motion-cursor-image-trail
Installs through shadcn and adapts the component to your design tokens.
shadcn CLI
npx shadcn@4.17.0 add @agentic-ui/motion-cursor-image-trail

Used in

A standalone component: drop it into any screen.

Type
Motion
Variants
Radix UI and Base UI
Themes
Light and dark
Widths
Preview it at desktop, tablet and mobile widths above.
Motion
Animated, with a reduced-motion fallback