For creating animation in WPF predefined types are available that makes animation creation very easy and fast. For animation creation we have use System.Windows.Media.Animation.

There are many types available now we are working with DoubleAnimation.

Here is some sketch what we are going to do.

Follow the step to create animation in WPF with Blend Studio

Step 1: Open Blend which comes with Visual Studio. We are using Blend Studio 2013 comes with visual studio 2013

Step 2: New project WPF named WPFBlendApp

Step 3: Remove the default Grid Layout & drag and drop Canvas inside window. Same as drag and drop rectangle in Canvas. Setup image path which you want to display while animation.

            Follow up with generated xaml code:

        You can also setup these property from property window also.

        Select rectangle from object and timeline window.

        Go to property window and setup properties.

          In Fill under Brush option you have to select custom expression             

          System.Windows.Media.ImageBrush

Step 4: Now at code part in add namespace at top using System.Windows.Media.Animation;

            And write the following code.

Everything is done. Go to Menu Project à Run project. Run and check how animation looks like.