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Today we’d like to share a little artsy effect with you. The idea is to show a fast fullscreen preview of images when hovering over a special link. In our demo we use the concept of a photographer’s website where the link to their works triggers the effect. On hover, some photos are shown rapidly in a loop. Once the link is clicked, the current image scales down and moves to its place in the grid. The animations are made using TweenMax.
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Our landing page of the demo has a menu in the top right corner.
The “photography” link will trigger the loop. The loop will only contain the grid items that will be visible in the viewport:
Once the “photography” link is actually clicked, we scale down the current image and animate it to its place in the grid:
When clicking on the back button or on the page name in the top left corner, we’ll show the landing page content again.
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We hope you like this little effect and find it useful!
References and Credits
- Images from Unsplash.com
- TweenMax by Greensock
- bezier-easing by Gaëtan Renaudeau
- imagesLoaded by Dave DeSandro
