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Your Winter 2023 Anime Guide: What To Watch And Where It's Streaming
16.12.2022
Oh, you thought you were free of Kotaku-themed anime slideshows? Nah, fam, you’re still trapped in the weeb mines with me. But hark, there be light at the end of this dakimakura-infested tunnel. Winter is coming, and with it are even more anime for your viewing pleasure.Read more
So, you’d like to animate the display property
15.12.2022
The CSS Working Group gave that a thumbs-up a couple weeks ago. The super-duper conceptual proposal being that we can animate or transition from, say, display: block to display: none.
It’s a bit of a brain-twister to reason …
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CSS Infinite Slider Flipping Through Polaroid Images
9.12.2022
In the last article, we made a pretty cool little slider (or “carousel” if that’s what you prefer) that rotates in a circular direction. This time we are going to make one that flips through a stack of Polaroid …
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The 10 Best Anime Of 2022
6.12.2022
The year 2022 hath blessed us with an illustrious catalog of anime, the best of which garnered their own dedicated day of the week among the anime faithful with the likes of Bleach Mondays and Chainsaw Man Tuesdays. Many of you probably wouldn’t put up a fuss if this list was solely comprised...
CSS Infinite and Circular Rotating Image Slider
2.12.2022
Image sliders (also called carousels) are everywhere. There are a lot of CSS tricks to create the common slider where the images slide from left to right (or the opposite). It’s the same deal with the many JavaScript libraries out …
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Responsive Animations for Every Screen Size and Device
20.10.2022
Before I career jumped into development, I did a bunch of motion graphics work in After Effects. But even with that background, I still found animating on the web pretty baffling.
Video graphics are designed within a specific ratio and …
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Pure CSS Bezier Curve Motion Paths
17.10.2022
Are you a Bezier curve lover like I am?
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Besides being elegant, Bezier curves have nice mathematical properties due to their definition and construction. No wonder they are widely used in so many areas:
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Hacking CSS Animation State and Playback Time
6.9.2022
CSS-only Wolfenstein is a little project that I made a few weeks ago. It was an experiment with CSS 3D transformations and animations.
Inspired by the FPS demo and another Wolfenstein CodePen, I decided to build my own version. …
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Interpolating Numeric CSS Variables
30.8.2022
We can make variables in CSS pretty easily:
:root {
--scale: 1;
}
And we can declare them on any element:
.thing {
transform: scale(--scale);
}
Even better for an example like this is applying the variable on a user …
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Live A Live: The Kotaku Review
27.7.2022
Live A Live is a pixel-art role-playing game that’s here for a good time, not a long time, a formula that’s sorely needed in today’s games space where RPGs often demand dozens if not hundreds of hours to see through to the end.Read more
Hugely Popular Macross Anime Finally Scores U.S. Video Release
6.7.2022
The irreverently popular sci-fi anime series Macross is finally getting an overseas release.Read more
Every Big Reveal Announced At Anime Expo 2022
6.7.2022
Last weekend, Anime Expo, the “largest celebration of Japanese pop culture in North America,” featured a treasure trove of announcements and trailers to satiate otaku… at least until next year’s event. Read more
Netflix’s New Heavy Metal Fantasy Anime Is Unapologetically Horny And That's OK
1.7.2022
When I first watched Netflix’s new anime Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy, I expected a melodramatic anime series along the lines of Record of Lodoss War. What I got was an unapologetically horny show about a wizard and his ever-growing harem of big-haired anime waifus. I loved every second...
How I Chose an Animation Library for My Solitaire Game
29.6.2022
There is an abundance of both CSS and JavaScript libraries for animation libraries out there. So many, in fact, that choosing the right one for your project can seem impossible. That’s the situation I faced when I decided to build …
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Cruisy Japanese Summer Game Gets Surprise English Release
29.6.2022
Last year, a game was released on the Nintendo Switch in Japan called Crayon Shin-chan: Ora to Hakase no Natsuyasumi (Crayon Shin-chan: My Summer Vacation With The Professor). A crossover between legendary manga Crayon Shin-chan and the long-running My Summer Vacation series of video games,...
Your Summer 2022 Anime Guide
23.6.2022
If you happen to be suffering from a general air of malaise following the spring time season and are looking to fill your summer with something fresh from the anime scene, well tough. Kidding! Summer is right around the corner and with it are a bunch of new anime to watch. Read more
Avatar: The Last Airbender Is Getting Three New Animated Films
15.6.2022
Today Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures announced that a trilogy of Avatar: The Last Airbender animated films are in development during the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Read more
Single Element Loaders: The Spinner
10.6.2022
Making CSS-only loaders is one of my favorite tasks. It’s always satisfying to look at those infinite animations. And, of course, there are lots of techniques and approaches to make them — no need to look further than CodePen to …
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Stylish Cel-Shaded Skating Shooter Rollerdrome Looks To Be Pure Joy On Wheels
3.6.2022
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Celebrate Attack On Titan Maker Wit Studio’s 10th Anniversary With These 10 Anime
1.6.2022
Today marks the tenth anniversary of Wit Studio, the anime production company who, with Attack on Titan, quickly established itself as a powerhouse in the anime industry. However, Wit’s great body of work extends beyond the walls of its anime adaptation of AoT. Wit’s also the driving force behind...