Category: GSAP

Grid Layout with Motion Hover Effect and Content Preview

Today we’d like to share a little grid layout with you. We use CSS Grid and a playful hover effect on the grid items which are composed of different wildly placed elements. When an item is clicked, we slide in a content preview overlay and animate the grid items out and the preview items in. For the animations we...

Creative SVG Strokes Animation

SVG stroke animations are nothing new, but when using a more complex drawing that is basically made of strokes, then we can create a very original looking effect. Using many different colors and adding some other element animations, we can bring a very unique looking illustration to live.For the animation we are u...

Fancy Web Animations Made Easy with GreenSock Plugins

The aim of the third part of this GreenSock tutorial series is to introduce you to some amazing GreenSock plugins. You’ll be using:The BezierPlugin to animate properties along a curved Bezier path The GSAP Draggable utility to drag elements on the screen and the ThrowPropsPlugin to glide them to a smooth stop ...

Repeatable, Staggered Animation Three Ways: Sass, GSAP and Web Animations API

Staggered animation, also known as “follow through” or “overlapping action” is one of the twelve Disney principles of animation as defined by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas in their 1981 book “The Illusion of Life”. At its core, the concept deals with animating objects in delayed su...

GreenSock for Beginners: a Web Animation Tutorial (Part 1)

My aim in this article is to give you a thorough introduction to GreenSock, also known as GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform), a super performant, professional-grade HTML5 animation engine for the modern web. This is the fourth article in the series Beyond CSS: Dynamic DOM Animation Libraries. Here’s what I cove...

Animating Bootstrap Carousels with GSAP’s Animation Library

In a previous post, I covered the process of converting a Bootstrap carousel into a full-screen carousel with a random initial image. In this article, I’ll build on that and cover the art of animating Bootstrap carousels, drawing on the assistance of GSAP (GreenSock Animation Platform), a popular JavaScript library. ...

Cars with Broken Windshield Wipers

I was stopped at an intersection the other day. It was raining. The road on the other side sloped upwards, so I could see the stopped cars on the other side of the road kind of stadium-seating style. I could see all their windshield wipers going all at the same time, all out-of-sync with each other. Plus a few of them ...

How to Create an Interactive Animated SVG Drum Kit

View demo Download source Today we’re going to create an animated SVG drum kit that can be played by clicking, tapping or using your keyboard, and that can also be programmed to play by itself! We’ll be making use of GreenSock’s TweenMax animation library, jQuery and the <audio> element. Creati...

SMIL is dead! Long live SMIL! A Guide to Alternatives to SMIL Features

SMIL, SVG’s native animation specification, has been highly regarded because it offers so many bells and whistles for performant SVG animation rendering. Unfortunately, support for SMIL is waning in WebKit, and has never (nor will likely ever) exist for Microsoft’s IE or Edge browsers. Have no fear! We’ve got you...

Elastic Progress

View demo Download source Today we’d like to share an interesting progress button effect with you. The effect is based on a very nice Dribbble shot called “Download” by xjw. The button starts as an icon with an arrow and once it’s clicked, it animates into a fun little wire and a label that ind...