Animations: Sliding & Fading controls on a C# form (winforms)

Question

I\'m trying to implement a way to animate (translate, fade) controls around (more than one at the same time possibly) elegantly. For example, lets say I had a picture in the

Answer 1

I believe that this answer of using builtin AnimateWindow is much better for this purpose: How can I add moving effects to my controls in C#?