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Creating a simple portfolio website with WebGL and Barba.js

3h 41m 19s
English
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Nothing beats smooth user experience. That is the reason we love WebGL, because we can do crazy effects with amazing performance. But if you combine that with smooth animation when the user navigates between pages, you get an awwward winning website. That’s exactly what we are going to create in this course.

In this course I will focus on two main concepts. Firstly, we are going to learn how to do simple smooth page transitions with GSAP and Barba.js libraries. After that we will move to more advanced effects using FLIP concept for animations.

Secondly, I will teach you how you can create image-to-fullscreen animations on the website. That amazing zooming combined with WebGL shader effects that you often see on the coolest websites. I will explain the concept, and we will use it to create a couple of different effects. Don’t worry if you are not yet familiar with shaders, a short practical intro to them will be included in the course. So you can use it as your first step in learning them.

Then we will combine smooth page transition with cool WebGL effects. I will also include some tips on performance and where you can go from that. In the end we will have a simple but cool portfolio website with shader animations and smooth page transitions.

About the Author: awwwards.com

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The awards that recognize the talent and effort of the best web designers, developers and agencies in the world. A meeting point, where digital design professionals from across the globe find inspiration, impart knowledge and experience, connect, and share constructive, respectful critiques. “Always questioning”, “always evolving”.

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#1: Intro
All Course Lessons (21)
#Lesson TitleDurationAccess
1
Intro Demo
00:47
2
Creating Boilerplate
24:56
3
Using shaders in THREE.js
12:54
4
Vertex Shaders
22:00
5
Fragment Shaders
15:16
6
Combining shaders
09:32
7
Sync HTML and WebGL dimensions
07:26
8
Creating Zoom Effect
11:11
9
Create zoom Effect
04:05
10
Fixing UV aspect ratio
12:00
11
Effect with corners
12:01
12
Effect with wave
05:48
13
Merge HTML and WebGL with custom scroll
06:32
14
Create meshes from images
09:47
15
Correct positioning
06:47
16
Resizing website
08:43
17
Mouse events
04:10
18
Barba.js intro
04:35
19
Creating smooth Barba.js transition
20:32
20
Using 11ty as a site generator
21:26
21
Thank you
00:51
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