diff --git a/packages/core/test/render3/BUILD.bazel b/packages/core/test/render3/BUILD.bazel
index a27837958e..ccbb26d6f5 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/render3/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/packages/core/test/render3/BUILD.bazel
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ ts_library(
         "//packages:types",
         "//packages/core",
         "//packages/platform-browser",
+        "//packages/platform-browser/animations",
+        "//packages/animations",
+        "//packages/animations/browser",
+        "//packages/animations/browser/testing",
     ],
 )
 
diff --git a/packages/core/test/render3/component_spec.ts b/packages/core/test/render3/component_spec.ts
index e23285c60f..0089db882d 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/render3/component_spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/test/render3/component_spec.ts
@@ -170,6 +170,6 @@ describe('encapsulation', () => {
     renderComponent(WrapperComponentWith, getRendererFactory2(document));
     expect(containerEl.outerHTML)
         .toEqual(
-            '<div host="" _nghost-c1=""><leaf _ngcontent-c1="" _nghost-c2=""><span _ngcontent-c2="">bar</span></leaf></div>');
+            '<div host="" _nghost-c2=""><leaf _ngcontent-c2="" _nghost-c3=""><span _ngcontent-c3="">bar</span></leaf></div>');
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/core/test/render3/imported_renderer2.ts b/packages/core/test/render3/imported_renderer2.ts
index b2858cceb2..09742807bc 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/render3/imported_renderer2.ts
+++ b/packages/core/test/render3/imported_renderer2.ts
@@ -6,8 +6,12 @@
  * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.io/license
  */
 
+import {ɵAnimationEngine, ɵNoopAnimationStyleNormalizer} from '@angular/animations/browser';
+import {MockAnimationDriver} from '@angular/animations/browser/testing';
 import {EventEmitter, NgZone, RendererFactory2} from '@angular/core';
 import {EventManager, ɵDomEventsPlugin, ɵDomRendererFactory2, ɵDomSharedStylesHost} from '@angular/platform-browser';
+import {ɵAnimationRendererFactory} from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';
+
 
 // Adapted renderer: it creates a Renderer2 instance and adapts it to Renderer3
 // TODO: remove once this code is in angular/angular
@@ -52,3 +56,11 @@ export function getRendererFactory2(document: any): RendererFactory2 {
       new EventManager([new SimpleDomEventsPlugin(document, fakeNgZone)], fakeNgZone);
   return new ɵDomRendererFactory2(eventManager, new ɵDomSharedStylesHost(document));
 }
+
+export function getAnimationRendererFactory2(document: any): RendererFactory2 {
+  const fakeNgZone: NgZone = new NoopNgZone();
+  return new ɵAnimationRendererFactory(
+      getRendererFactory2(document),
+      new ɵAnimationEngine(new MockAnimationDriver(), new ɵNoopAnimationStyleNormalizer()),
+      fakeNgZone);
+}
diff --git a/packages/core/test/render3/load_domino.ts b/packages/core/test/render3/load_domino.ts
index 5857630e34..e07ef10a9c 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/render3/load_domino.ts
+++ b/packages/core/test/render3/load_domino.ts
@@ -6,8 +6,12 @@
  * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.io/license
  */
 
+// Needed to run animation tests
+require('zone.js/dist/zone-node.js');
+
 if (typeof window == 'undefined') {
-  const createWindow = require('domino').createWindow;
+  const domino = require('domino');
+  const createWindow = domino.createWindow;
   const window = createWindow('', 'http://localhost');
   (global as any).document = window.document;
 
@@ -16,4 +20,8 @@ if (typeof window == 'undefined') {
   // It fails with Domino with TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property
   // 'stopImmediatePropagation' of object '#<Event>'
   (global as any).Event = null;
+
+  // For animation tests, see
+  // https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/packages/animations/browser/src/render/shared.ts#L140
+  (global as any).Element = domino.impl.Element;
 }
diff --git a/packages/core/test/render3/render_util.ts b/packages/core/test/render3/render_util.ts
index 88c9c0942c..573eee1735 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/render3/render_util.ts
+++ b/packages/core/test/render3/render_util.ts
@@ -33,8 +33,12 @@ requestAnimationFrame.flush = function() {
 
 export function resetDOM() {
   requestAnimationFrame.queue = [];
+  if (containerEl) {
+    document.body.removeChild(containerEl);
+  }
   containerEl = document.createElement('div');
   containerEl.setAttribute('host', '');
+  document.body.appendChild(containerEl);
   host = null;
   // TODO: assert that the global state is clean (e.g. ngData, previousOrParentNode, etc)
 }
diff --git a/packages/core/test/render3/renderer_factory_spec.ts b/packages/core/test/render3/renderer_factory_spec.ts
index 0efe207c61..3c21761a42 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/render3/renderer_factory_spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/test/render3/renderer_factory_spec.ts
@@ -6,13 +6,15 @@
  * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.io/license
  */
 
-import {RendererType2} from '@angular/core';
+import {AnimationEvent} from '@angular/animations';
+import {MockAnimationDriver, MockAnimationPlayer} from '@angular/animations/browser/testing';
 
-import {D, E, e} from '../../src/render3';
-import {T, defineComponent, detectChanges} from '../../src/render3/index';
+import {RendererType2, ViewEncapsulation} from '../../src/core';
+import {D, E, L, T, b, defineComponent, detectChanges, e, p} from '../../src/render3';
+import {createRendererType2} from '../../src/view';
 
-import {getRendererFactory2} from './imported_renderer2';
-import {document, renderComponent, renderToHtml, resetDOM} from './render_util';
+import {getAnimationRendererFactory2, getRendererFactory2} from './imported_renderer2';
+import {containerEl, document, renderComponent, renderToHtml} from './render_util';
 
 describe('renderer factory lifecycle', () => {
   let logs: string[] = [];
@@ -104,3 +106,99 @@ describe('renderer factory lifecycle', () => {
   });
 
 });
+
+describe('animation renderer factory', () => {
+  let eventLogs: string[] = [];
+  function getLog(): MockAnimationPlayer[] {
+    return MockAnimationDriver.log as MockAnimationPlayer[];
+  }
+
+  function resetLog() { MockAnimationDriver.log = []; }
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    eventLogs = [];
+    resetLog();
+  });
+
+  class SomeComponent {
+    static ngComponentDef = defineComponent({
+      type: SomeComponent,
+      tag: 'some-component',
+      template: function(ctx: SomeComponent, cm: boolean) {
+        if (cm) {
+          T(0, 'foo');
+        }
+      },
+      factory: () => new SomeComponent
+    });
+  }
+
+  class SomeComponentWithAnimation {
+    exp: string;
+    callback(event: AnimationEvent) {
+      eventLogs.push(`${event.fromState ? event.fromState : event.toState} - ${event.phaseName}`);
+    }
+    static ngComponentDef = defineComponent({
+      type: SomeComponentWithAnimation,
+      tag: 'some-component',
+      template: function(ctx: SomeComponentWithAnimation, cm: boolean) {
+        if (cm) {
+          E(0, 'div');
+          {
+            L('@myAnimation.start', ctx.callback.bind(ctx));
+            L('@myAnimation.done', ctx.callback.bind(ctx));
+            T(1, 'foo');
+          }
+          e();
+        }
+        p(0, '@myAnimation', b(ctx.exp));
+      },
+      factory: () => new SomeComponentWithAnimation,
+      rendererType: createRendererType2({
+        encapsulation: ViewEncapsulation.None,
+        styles: [],
+        data: {
+          animation: [{
+            type: 7,
+            name: 'myAnimation',
+            definitions: [{
+              type: 1,
+              expr: '* => on',
+              animation:
+                  [{type: 4, styles: {type: 6, styles: {opacity: 1}, offset: null}, timings: 10}],
+              options: null
+            }],
+            options: {}
+          }]
+        }
+      }),
+    });
+  }
+
+  it('should work with components without animations', () => {
+    renderComponent(SomeComponent, getAnimationRendererFactory2(document));
+    expect(containerEl.innerHTML).toEqual('foo');
+  });
+
+  it('should work with animated components', (done) => {
+    const factory = getAnimationRendererFactory2(document);
+    const component = renderComponent(SomeComponentWithAnimation, factory);
+    expect(containerEl.innerHTML)
+        .toEqual('<div class="ng-tns-c1-0 ng-trigger ng-trigger-myAnimation">foo</div>');
+
+    component.exp = 'on';
+    detectChanges(component);
+
+    const [player] = getLog();
+    expect(player.keyframes).toEqual([
+      {opacity: '*', offset: 0},
+      {opacity: 1, offset: 1},
+    ]);
+    player.finish();
+
+    factory.whenRenderingDone !().then(() => {
+      expect(eventLogs).toEqual(['void - start', 'void - done', 'on - start', 'on - done']);
+      done();
+    });
+  });
+});