GSAP with Astro

I build motion in CSS or in GSAP, depending on the control, the data and the maintenance the project needs.

GSAP integrations like this usually take 3 days–2 weeks

How the handoff works.

01
Trigger

Scroll, click or load
02
Timeline

The sequence, authored
03
Elements

What moves, and in what order
04
Performance

Measured on the properties being animated

Key handoff
05
Reduced motion

Honored, not ignored

Why this is the key handoff

Motion is a build decision, not a finishing touch. Whether something is CSS or written GSAP is decided by what has to be controlled, what data it depends on and who maintains it afterward. The check at the end is the same either way: it runs at sixty frames, and it respects somebody who has asked for less motion.

Three things that commonly go wrong.

01

Scroll-linked animation on a mid-range phone is the real test

It is smooth on the laptop it was built on. Anything animating layout properties rather than transform and opacity recalculates on every frame, and that shows up on slower hardware, so it gets tested across the devices your audience actually uses.
02

Two systems animating one element will fight

Two systems setting the same transform produce a result neither intended. Per element, one of them owns the animation.
03

Reduced motion is a requirement, not a nicety

A visitor who has asked their operating system for less motion should get less motion. I test that preference: scrubbed motion resolves to its end state, decorative loops stop, and anything that carries meaning stays legible without the movement.

What is included.

Coordinated timelines across multiple elements
Scroll-linked motion that scrubs instead of simply triggering
CMS-driven animation patterns
Reduced-motion behavior for accessibility
Loading that keeps the animation out of the critical path

Wire up something else?

Reach out and see if we are a good fit.

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Currently booking two to four weeks out.