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Animated landing page - built to learn motion

ArtCube

2024

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Overview

A landing page for a fictional creative studio, built to learn how the smooth, scroll-driven sites of design agencies actually work. No framework and no build step - one HTML file, one stylesheet and one script, with the motion written by hand. It is the project where the animation habits behind this portfolio came from.

Stack

Page

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

Motion

  • GSAP
  • ScrollTrigger
  • Locomotive Scroll

Extras

  • Swiper
  • Netlify

What I built

  1. 01Wrote every animation by hand in GSAP - the intro sequence, the headline that sets a word at a time, and the sections that move as you scroll past them.
  2. 02Hooked Locomotive Scroll's smooth scrolling up to ScrollTrigger, so the page eases as it moves and the animations still fire at the right place.
  3. 03A cursor that follows the pointer with a lag and grows over the hero - the same idea that ended up on this site.
  4. 04Full-bleed video, custom fonts and a Swiper carousel, on a plain HTML page with no build step at all.