A practical course for GSAP. Do you want it?
Hey guys, I'm a front-end developer with 4+ years experience building websites using GSAP. For you who are not a web developer, GSAP is a web animation engine for creating complex animations.
The websites that I built using GSAP were for my clients and production-ready (not prototypes).
I've been researching a bit about the GSAP courses online and I only find a few, the most famous one is probably https://ihatetomatoes.net. His GSAP content is quite old and only covers the basic functions.
I want to build a GSAP course that is applicable to build real-life UI animations that you often see on awwwards websites. The end goal of this course is so that you can build complex UI animations.
What do you guys think? If you're a web animation fan like me, is this course something you want to watch and potentially pay for?
Thanks!
Their API seemed easy enough to me that I wouldn't take a course, but I've been a developer for a long time.
Also, if I were going to take an expensive course, I'd prefer it to be for an open source tool like AnimeJS instead 😉
I'm curious: is gsap better than animejs, or is it popular because they have a marketing budget?
Last, did you know that is animations are making it into the core browser spec?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Animations_API/Using_the_Web_Animations_API#Meet_the_Web_Animations_API
GSAP has a more robust API, it can animate everything JS can touch. I personally love using GSAP because it comes with a lot plugins (although not free) and its integration with other plugins such as Three.js or ScrollMagic.
Are you a front-end developer? Do you work a lot with animated websites? If not, this course may not be for you.
I'm aiming for front-end developers who deal a lot with animations and want to learn to develop complex animations with GSAP.
Yeah, I don't think the course is for me - I tried to prefix with that - I just like talking about web animations :)
I've worked with AnimeJS quite a bit, but only because I made that choice early on - they both had the animation tools I needed, but one was open source.
I'll have to dig around and see if I can find an in-depth comparison of the two, because I never looked back after deciding on Anime.
I see, fair enough.