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- One of the absolutely coolest features of Kidz Fun Art is the ability to create Animations. This was initially inspired by watching my nieces creating an animation on another Android app, so I focused purely on the creation case. This worked well, where most animations were...
about 1 month ago
- A while ago I was reading about Wayland and this quote stuck with me: A stated goal of Wayland is “every frame is perfect”. And I think this is a goal we should all aspire to. Wayland is talking about the technical side of things (modern GPU stacks are very complex and Wayland...
about 2 months ago
- Gradient shaderPlanted: May 2026Status: seedIntended Audience: Creative coders and front-end developers with a basic understanding of WebGL shaders.How to create an organic gradient animation using a WebGL shader. If you're new to shaders, check out this note. What we'll make:...
- There are a bunch of JavaScript animation libraries out there, and you might have wondered whether there’s a performance cost compared to traditional CSS transitions and keyframe animations. In this blog post, we’ll compare the same animation across several different strategies...
- Bipedal vs quadrupedal: how many legs This is about the number of legs the creature walks on. Bipedal. Two legs. Humans, ostriches, T-rex, kangaroos, most fantasy humanoids. Quadrupedal. Four legs. Do...
- Intro You hear "lerp" and "smoothstep" everywhere in game dev. They sound like math jargon. They're not. Both are small tools that do the same job: smoothly move from one value to another. The problem...
2 months ago
- What is Kinematics Kinematics is the math field. It's the study of how things move without worrying about forces (which would be dynamics). FK and IK are the two branches: forward kinematics and inver...
- 1. Sprite A 2D image with transparency, drawn in the world with a transform. A sprite is the atomic unit of 2D games. The image data is just a PNG. What makes it a sprite is how it's used: positioned...
3 months ago
- Have you ever heard of Disney’s 12 Basic Principles of Animation? In this tutorial, we’ll explore how we can use the very first principle to create SVG micro-interactions that feel way more natural and believable. It’s one of those small things that has a big impact....
- Introduction Buttons that scale on hover with CSS feel dead. No overshoot. No bounce. No life. Spring physics fix this. The button pops past its target scale and settles back. Feels like it has weight...
4 months ago
- Imagine I’m the design leader at your org and I present the following guidelines I want us to adopt as a team for doing design work: Typography: Use expressive, purposeful fonts and avoid default stacks (Inter, Roboto, Arial, system). Motion: Use a few meaningful animations...
- Introduction You added overflow: hidden and the collapse still looks wrong. The problem is not the motion component. It is the gap on your parent flex container. What is happening AnimatePresence keep...
5 months ago
- In game development, it’s common to use spritesheets for animation, but this technique isn’t as widely used on the web. Which is a shame, because we can do some pretty cool stuff with sprites! In this post, we’ll share the niche CSS function you can use to leverage this...
- I have a table, with alternating rows having different background colors, and the table content overflows the container on the right. I want to have a shadow/indicator on the side of the table that is overflowing the container. Go to solutions that won't work Many moons ago, Lea...
6 months ago
- This performance has been years in the making. In a sense, you could say it’s been a lifetime in the making. On November 6th, 2025, my brother Ian and I gave a “talk” at the amazing Beyond Tellerrand conference in […]...
- Have you ever noticed that the food graphics in Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Riders is flat “billboarded” stock images of food? This artistic decision from director Masahiro Sakurai has persisted through 8 games over nearly 25 years. I've seen a few folks online remarking...
8 months ago
- The same people behind Project Kamp also run a project called Precious Plastic which is an open source plastic recycling platform. As most are well aware, plastic is a major problem polluting our land, our beaches, our rivers, our oceans, and our balls. While Ocean Cleanup is...
- I stumbled onto Odd Artworks’ Random Mini Dungeon video series via the algorithm. He rolls against a dice table to generate a theme and requirements and starts drawing an isomorphic dungeon on a single sheet of paper. It’s almost like a Solo-RPG meets Inktober mashup activity....
- TLDR: I’ve shipped a new NPM module called gif2vid that enables video encoding of GIF files in the browser, in your terminal and in a web app backend. I’ve also created an uber simple website at https://gif2vid.com where you can use it. My kids enjoy building cute (and sometimes...
9 months ago
- The “linear()” timing function is a game-changer; it allows us to model physics-based motion right in vanilla CSS! That said, there are some limitations and quirks to be aware of. I’ve been experimenting with this API for a while now, and in this post, I’ll share all of the tips...
10 months ago
- Use agg with a huge font size to get high quality GIFs....
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