Animated Vega-Lite is a set of extensions to Vega-Lite that enables rapid prototyping of animated visualizations as time-varying data queries. In contrast to alternate approaches for specifying animated visualizations, which prize a highly expressive design space, Animated Vega-Lite prioritizes unifying animation with the languageās existing abstractions for static and interactive visualizations to enable authors to smoothly move between or combine these modalities.