Javascript Animations With GSAP and ScrollMagic
Make your sites move: GSAP 3 tweens and timelines, Barba.js page transitions, and scroll-triggered animation with ScrollMagic.
You know a well-animated site the moment you touch it. The hero eases in instead of appearing. Sections wake up as you scroll to them. Page changes glide instead of flashing white. None of it is loud, but the whole thing feels expensive, and someone got paid well to make it feel that way.
The gap between static sites and that feeling is smaller than it looks. Mostly it is one library.
GSAP first, and properly
The course spends its first stretch on GSAP 3 fundamentals, because everything else builds on them: creating tweens, using tween methods, transformation properties, custom easing, staggering, and timelines for sequencing multi-step animations. The section ends with a lesson on breaking down animations, which is the quiet skill of the whole discipline. When you can watch motion on an award-winning site and decompose it into tweens, you can rebuild anything you see.
Then you apply it, animating a complete landing page across four build lessons. Fundamentals in isolation are easy to nod along with. Choreographing a real page, where timing against neighboring elements matters, is where it becomes yours.
Transitions and scroll
Two more tools round out the course. Barba.js handles page transitions, and you use it to build a gallery page with hover effects and set up your first smooth transition between views. ScrollMagic ties animations to scroll position, the effect behind almost every modern marketing page, and the lessons include a walkthrough of its documentation and examples so you can go beyond what we build together.
A note on honesty: libraries in this space come and go, and newer scroll tools exist now. The concepts do not change, though. Tweens, timelines, triggers, and scenes work the same way under any library's naming, and GSAP itself remains the industry standard. Learn the model here and the specific tool becomes a detail.
Animation pairs naturally with strong CSS, so if you want the CSS-only side of motion too, CSS Animation for Developers is the companion course. And if the JavaScript in the lessons feels like the hard part rather than the animation, shore up with JavaScript Basics first.
What you'll learn
- ✓ Set up GSAP 3 and create your first tweens
- ✓ Control motion with tween methods and transformation properties
- ✓ Shape how animations feel with custom easing and staggering
- ✓ Sequence multi-step animations with timelines
- ✓ Animate a complete landing page, section by section
- ✓ Build smooth page transitions with Barba.js
- ✓ Trigger animations on scroll with ScrollMagic
Course Curriculum
6 sections
1
First Section
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2
GSAP3 Basics
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3
Project 1: Animate Landing Page with GSAP
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4
Barba.js
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5
Scrollmagic.js
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.done
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Before you start
- ✓ Comfortable HTML and CSS, plus basic JavaScript. You will be selecting elements and passing configuration objects throughout
