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CSS Animation Weekly #29- Web animation 2017, direction aware hovers and more

This week we're learning all about the state of the art of web animation in 2017, creating direction-aware hover effects and exploding shards of polygons, as well as some amazing inspiration from around the web.

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Donovan at CSSAnimation.rocks

Articles

A terrific overview of where things are at in the world of web animation. 🎉

Gabrielle Wee shares how to create custom animation effects that depend on the direction the cursor approaches from. Great parallax and cube examples.

A nice step by step guide to creating SVG polygon animations.

Featured Course

A big welcome to all our new Sitepoint subscribers  Last week I launched this new course - a series of video lessons on bringing animation to your UI. It's free for all Sitepoint Premium members.

If you've taken the course, be sure to leave a nice review!

Inspiration

A fantastic example of how CSS and JS animation can make for a really fast loading full page experience. Amazing work here. 📦

Hover over this video thumbnail to see a cool 3D effect 😎

Seriously gorgeous effect created by simply drawing circles and animating them upwards!    ⃝

The topic is a little dark - washing an owl in a washing machine!? But the animation is superb. Lots to learn from this. 🦉

An adorable example of Tweenmax used to show the construction of a house - drag the timeline to control how the animation plays. 🏡

Animation in the real world

Loads of parallax and scroll-trigger animations on this gorgeous graphic novel all about... hybrid cars 🤔

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