In this go-at-your-own-pace course, SuperHi has designed and produced a series of projects all about hand-coding, styling, and animating SVGs to bring scalable, performance-friendly illustrations to life in the browser.
The course includes 12 hours of video lessons that will teach you how to handcraft animations with CSS, SVG, Javascript and GreenSock.
How to use CSS and GreenSock to animate shapes and paths.
Create and apply special effects such as patterns and clip paths.
How to set up timelines, sequences, and click events.
How to make our animations feel more natural with easings and delays.
How to start self-initiated projects working with illustrations and UI animation.
Requirements
A computer (Windows, Mac or Linux) with the latest version of Chrome installed and a broadband internet connection. You’ll also want to set up a Figma account. That’s it!
Target Audience
From graphic designers looking to bring movement to their creations to developers aiming to add a bit of pizzazz to their site interactions, this course is for anyone who wants to learn how to use animation techniques for full control of graphics on the web.
This is a beginner course when it comes to page transitions, though we would recommend basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and a bit of Javascript before starting. If you don’t have this just yet, trying our Learn To Code Now book, or taking our Foundation HTML, CSS + JS course and our Javascript For Designers course will help you feel as prepared as possible.
Welcome to the course! In the first lesson, we dive into how to make an animated slideshow and carousels with Greensock Animation Platform (GSAP).
How exactly do we take a simple portfolio and make it look completely different? With animation, course! In this project we talk about SVGs, how to change SVG shapes with CSS and add in scroll effects.
In the 4th Kind project, we focus more on how to change SVGs within the page itself – from making a burger menu icon toggle to an interactive spiral-style effect – along with adding CSS variables for the site's dark mode
Rather than a home page, we're travelling to a home planet in project 4. In this one we talk about how to make immersive animated sites using both GSAP timelines and browser scrolling.
Down on Seal Street, we're wanting to make something more than a simple photo website. In this project, we add in sticky scrolling, wipe effects and fade effects, along with a sprinkle of GSAP timelines.
We take breakfast seriously here at SuperHi HQ and with Wakefast, we want to smooth you into the day with some smooth page scrolling and parallax effects on this restaurant delivery site!
Rik (he/him) is a Mancunian coder, teacher and CEO of SuperHi. He was the co-founder of Steer (a code school in London) and has taught several thousand people to code. He is a bit too old to be posting memes on our social media and recently featured as a Sour Patch Kid in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.