Articles Tagged GSAP

I’ve been coding web animations and helping others do the same for years now. However, I have yet to see a concise list of tips focused on how to efficiently build animations, so here you go!

I will be using the GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP). It provides a simple, readable API and solves cross-browser inconsistencies so that you can focus on animating. The code and concepts should be understandable even if you’ve never used GSAP. If you’d like to familiarize … Read article “Tips for Writing Animation Code Efficiently”

There are truly thousands of ways to animate on the web. We’ve covered a comparison of different animation technologies here before. Today, we’re going to dive into a step-by-step guide of one of my favorite ways to get it done: using GreenSock.… Read article “How to Animate on the Web With GreenSock”

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 succession to produce fluid motion.

The technique doesn’t only apply to cute character animations though. The Motion design aspect of a digital interface has significant implications on UX, user perception and “feel”. … Read article “Repeatable, Staggered Animation Three Ways: Sass, GSAP and Web Animations API”

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 had seemingly kinda broken ones that flapped at awkward times and angles.

What does that have to do with … Read article “Cars with Broken Windshield Wipers”

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 covered. This article explores some of those SMIL-specific features and delves into the alternatives to achieve the same effects with a longer tail of support.… Read article “SMIL is dead! Long live SMIL! A Guide to Alternatives to SMIL Features”

The following is a guest post by Sarah Drasner (@sarah_edo). Sarah has been researching and giving talks about animation lately. I jumped at the chance to have her share some of that research here, this time focusing on SVG animation and the different tech choices you can make to do it.… Read article “Weighing SVG Animation Techniques (with Benchmarks)”