Ivan Bogachev

Today is St Valentine’s day. I’ve painted a heart. This example consists of one mask, two paths and a couple of lines of javascript to start the action.

The winter is ending, but I’d like to present the Christmas waltz that I wrote a couple of days ago. This is a short, festive waltz for a chamber orchestra. I composed it for piano and it was a common etude for beginners. Later, when I tried to use synthesized strings and a glockenspiel, it was transformed into the beautiful composition. I like it and I think it can create a festive mood.

SVG masks. This is a very interesting technology. It allows us to create a lot of cool effects, even in IE. I created an example for one of my answers on toster.ru. It looks nice and it has been picked on CodePen recently, so I think I should share it here too.

A lot of people (I mean not regular people, but professional front-end developers) think that animations based on particles are difficult to implement. It’s not true. Every developer with basic skills in JS+canvas can create amazing effects very easily. I wrote an article about these animations.

Previously I created a nice animation for the “404” page. The main idea of the animation was successful and I used it several times with small changes. One of these variants has been published on CodePen and I’d like to share it here too. I fixed the bug with opacity in Safari (it’s like the old IE requires personal approach) and both animations work in all modern browsers now. As always they are free to use.

A lot of interesting infinite patterns in CSS animations can be obtained from the one idea. This pen is an example of it. The animation consists of two steps with simple transforms. There are no rare properties or magic behavior in the example.

SVG paths have an option called stroke-dashoffset and we can animate it. When Chris Coyier posted an article about it, someone said “as always, using properties for effects they were never intended for”. He is absolutely right, but…

Nick Babich writes very interesting articles on UX Planet and usually they include amazing animations. But it seems like they are created using After Effects or similar program. I got the idea from this article and tried to create the animation of the funny face using CSS and JS.

Some of my CSS loaders were showcased at nisnom.com. It’s really nice. Here are three of them, which I don’t share on my website previously. They are simple, but look very attractive. The first one uses gooey SVG filter on seven moving dots, the second is the simple cube with animated backgrounds and the last animation consists of circles which change their sizes like waves.

One of the important tasks in large projects is the documentation and creation of style guides. This process should be automated if it’s possible. Previously I used the grunt-dss plugin, but during migration of the Muilessium to gulp a little problem appeared…