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This list contains the most useful tools and data for creating web animations. * Any libraries that help animate anything in the browser - Canvas, SVG, text, scroll etc. * Books about animation in the browser. * GUI tools for animation that can be exported to the browser.

Contents

SVG

Common

CSS

Canvas

Animate on scroll

Text

React

GUI tools

Books

SVG animation

 

SVG is extremely powerful, with its reduced HTTP requests and crispness on any display. It becomes increasingly more interesting as you explore its capabilities for responsive animation and performance boons. When you animate SVG, you must be aware of normal image traits like composition, color, implementation, and optimization. But when you animate, it increases the complexity of each of these factors exponentially.

Creating Web Animations: Bringing Your UIs to Life

 

Thanks to faster browsers, better web standards support, and more powerful devices, the web now defines the next generation of user interfaces that are fun, practical, fluid, and memorable. The key? Animation. But learning how to create animations is hard, and existing learning material doesnt explain the context of the UI problem that animations are trying to solve. Thats where this book comes in.

Transitions and Animations in CSS: Adding Motion with CSS

Add life and depth to your web applications and improve user experience through the discrete use of CSS transitions and animations. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to make page elements move or change in appearance, whether you want to realistically bounce a ball, gradually expand a drop-down menu, or simply bring attention to an element when users hover over it.

Designing Interface Animation: Meaningful Motion for User Experience

Effective interface animation deftly combines form and function to improve feedback, aid in orientation, direct attention, show causality, and express your brands personality. Designing Interface Animation shows you how to create web animation that balances purpose and style while blending seamlessly into the users experience. This book is a crash course in motion design theory and practice for web designers, UX professionals, and front-end developers alike.

Web Animation using JavaScript: Develop & Design

We've come a long way since the days of flashing banner ads and scrolling news tickers. Today, the stunning motion design of iOS and Android dramatically improves a users experience — instead of detracting from it. The best sites and apps of today leverage animation to improve the feel and intuitiveness of their interfaces. Sites without animation are starting to feel antiquated. This book provides you with a technical foundation to implement animation in a way thats both visually stunning and programmatically maintainable.

CSS Animations and Transitions for the Modern Web

Modern websites use a variety of animated effects not only to improve usability but also to delight and surprise users. Some of these effects require complex scripting or programming skills, but many are within the grasp of designers who are already familiar with CSS and HTML. CSS Animations and Transitions for the Modern Web shows designers how to add movement to web pages over time using CSS3 style definitions.

Animation in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

This book will help you create practical / usable / wickedly-cool animations in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Each chapter is filled with cleanly explained concepts, beautifully illustrated diagrams, colorific code snippets, and cringeworthy one-liners guaranteed to make your friend who laughs at everything groan. You will start by learning how to create animations and transitions in CSS. Towards the end, you will learn how to create animations in JavaScript by manipulating DOM elements as well as pushing pixels on the canvas.

Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript

Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript covers everything that you need to know to create dynamic scripted animation using the HTML5 canvas. It provides information on all the relevant math you’ll need, before moving on to physics concepts like acceleration, velocity, easing, springs, collision detection, conservation of momentum, 3D, and forward and inverse kinematics. Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript is a fantastic resource for all web developers working in HTML5 or switching over from Flash to create standards-compliant games, applications, and animations that will work across all modern browsers and most mobile devices, including iPhones, iPads, and Android devices.

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