Category: animation

Iron Man’s Arc Reactor Using CSS3 Transforms and Animations

Alright Iron Man fans, fire up your code editors! We are going to make the Arc reactor from Iron Man’s suit in CSS. Here’s what the end result will look like: See the Pen Iron Man’s Arc Reactor by Kunal Sarkar (@supersarkar) on CodePen.The Full Page Wrapper We will make our Arc reactor on a dark full-page b...

Expanding Grid Menu

Today we’d like to share a little menu animation with you. The idea is inspired by an effect that can be seen in this video, right at the beginning: a couple of differently sized boxes slide out and fill the screen. We thought this might be a nice idea applied to a menu using CSS Grid.The demo is kindly sponsor...

Animated Fragment Slideshow

Today we’d like to show you how to create a playful slider with an original fragmented look. Each element of the slider will be divided into pieces that will animate in different ways, using Pieces, a library that I’ve created for achieving interesting effects like these easily.This will be the final resu...

Scrolling Letters Animation

Recently we’ve stumbled upon a really nice effect on Akademi’s website: the main title of the page moves along as one scrolls down and changes depending on the section that is currently in the viewport. We thought this would be an awesome effect to recreate and play with different animations for the text as...

Slice Revealer

Today we’d like to share a simple reveal animation with you that is mainly inspired by Zhenya Rynzhuk’s transition experiments and Gil Huybrecht’s “Boardathon” Dribbble shot.The idea is to cover and uncover an image with slices to either hide or show it. The slices can be vertical or ho...

Outdoors Template

Today we’re very excited to share an experimental implementation of one of Gil Huybrecht’s designs with you. Gil creates fantastic signature designs with amazing animations and he kindly permitted us code up one of his works.The design project is called “Outdoors” and it has a very interes...

Gradient Topography Animation

Today we’d like to share a shape layer animation with you. The inspiration for this effect comes from the fantastic work by Diana Hlevnjak (Polar Vector) “Gradient Topography”. We use anime.js for the animations and Charming for the letter effects.After seeing the artwork, we thought it would be awe...

Decorative Letter Animations

Today we’d like to share some fun letter animations with you. The idea is based on Animography’s Dribbble shot “Us By Night” where various little shapes animate with some letters. We wanted to explore some similar animations using different typographies and shape effects. We are using anime.js f...

CSS Glitch Effect

Today we’d like to show you how to create a little experimental glitch-like effect on an image. The effect will be powered by CSS animations and the clip-path property. The technique involves using several layers of images where each one will have a clip-path, a blend mode and a translation applied to it. It was ...

3D Particle Explorations

This set of demos explores 3D particle animations using three.js and easing. All of the particles and shapes in these demos are made from basic geometry/material/mesh sets in three.js, such as spheres, lines, and boxes.The Concept Making animations with a lot of small moving parts is a lot of fun. Applying different...