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# How does Animate work?

On this page we are going to explain how Animate is structured and how it works, to give you a better understand of what happens in Animate behind the scenes when creating blueprints with Animate.

### Architecture Overview

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<mark style="color:blue;">Any animation you created with Animate always consists of two components: A</mark> <mark style="color:blue;"></mark><mark style="color:blue;">`Value Source`</mark> <mark style="color:blue;"></mark><mark style="color:blue;">and an</mark> <mark style="color:blue;"></mark><mark style="color:blue;">`Value Interpreter`</mark><mark style="color:blue;">.</mark>

### Value Source

Animate's `Value Source` is responsible for a number of functions:

* Read configured Curve Vector.
* Generate and save current curve value at current time.
* Progress curve each tick, based on current state (reversing, looping etc.).
* Parse and save current value of curve at current time.
* Call curve events (Curve Minimum, Maximum, Updated & Deleted)

### Value Interpreter

The `Value Interpreter` listens to the events provided by the Value Source and then implements custom behaviour to make use of the value provided by the `Value Source`.

The implemented behaviour can be fully customized. Example implementations include:

* Setting an Actors relative rotation, location or scale.
* Updating the brightness of a light source.
* Manipulating values of a post-process volume.

Since the *reading* and *using* of the curve is seperated in two different components, it is very easy to create custom implementations of curve values in a clean blueprint, without having to modify a big blueprint or making copies of it.