Animation Basics
Make things move! Learn to build bouncing balls, spinning coins, glowing buttons, and game sprites you can drop straight into your own games and websites.
What You'll Learn
Description
Animation is what makes games and websites feel alive. A button that glows when you hover it, a coin that spins, a ball that bounces, a character that slides across the screen — all of that is animation, and you can build every bit of it yourself.
In this tutorial your Vibe Coding Academy avatar walks you through real, copy-paste code. You'll start with simple hover effects, level up to looping @keyframesanimations, then control motion frame-by-frame with JavaScript — the same trick real games use. Every snippet is yours to paste, run, and tweak.
By the end you'll have animated buttons, a bouncing ball, a spinning coin, and a sprite you can move with the arrow keys — plus the AI prompts to generate more whenever you want.
What's Inside
4 hands-on chapters • about 1.5 hours of fun.
- 1Introduction — what animation really is + your first hover effect
- 2Making Things Move — @keyframes, a bouncing ball & a spinning coin
- 3Cool Effects & Timing — transform, easing, and a glowing pulse
- 4Animate Your Own Project — a JavaScript game sprite you can control
