Animations can make or break a website. Without them it can lack personality, but with too many and it can become overwhelming. Even after finding the right balance, an unnatural movement can make a well-intentioned interaction seem jarring. All of this seems like we'd be fighting a losing battle.

Animate a rating component with React Spring

In this month's Web Designer we take a look at something desperately lacking on the web - smooth performance with animations.

Create Silky Smooth UIs with CSS and JS

In a previous post, I talked about how I was making a little character in SVG for Cinolla's 404 page. The page needed a bit more of a friendly face to it.

Animating a SVG with CSS

For the past couple of summers, I’ve given myself a project to keep my mind at least a little active until it’s time to come use it again in September. This year’s no different, and there’s a few ideas milling around my head, but I want to do something involving Twitter and Flash.

Playing with the Tweener class

The latest project for university has involved making a Flash animation. Just the other day I’d finished making it, so I thought I’d take you through a bit of the development - because that’s always interesting, right?

Popferret – The ins and outs

The next project is an animation in Flash lasting a couple of minutes. Now I’ve done plenty of work in Flash, but that’s specifically missing out animation of characters because – in all honesty – I can’t draw. So I needed to find an animation I could do without doing too much drawing by hand.

Flash animation project – Popferret main character

We’ve got a new brief set… hooray…! This is a Flash-based project, however, so we’re batting at home on this one.

Tag: Animation