Welcome to the part that most online courses get wrong — the actual workflow.

This isn’t a theory course.

This is an animation production workshop.

You're not here to memorize GSAP — you're here to apply animations where it makes sense.

The Only Way To Learn Animation: Build It.

You can read docs about easing, timelines, and scroll triggers all day.

But until you actually see something:

• snap,
• glide,
• bounce,
• or overshoot on your own screen — it won’t click.

That's why this course is structured as:

• ✅ Project-based lessons
• ✅ Hands-on challenges
• ✅ Code-along demos
• ✅ Real-world case studies
• ✅ Taste-building practice

🗂 The Starter Repo — Your GSAP Playground

We've prepared a full starter repository so you can focus purely on animation.

• 🔗 Ultimate GSAP Starter Repo
• This repo holds:
  • All HTML & CSS for every lesson pre-built.
  • You focus entirely on adding motion.
  • No boilerplate, no setup distractions.
• You'll use this repo across:
  • Lessons
  • Mini-challenges
  • Full production projects

🔄 Our Folder Structure

Inside the repo:

• lesson-01-intro-animation/
• lesson-02-timelines/
• lesson-03-scrolltrigger/
• lesson-04-projects/
• capstone-gta-vi-clone/ (your final boss 🔥)

Each folder contains:

• ✅ Pre-built HTML & CSS
• ✅ Empty JS file for you to animate
• ✅ Challenge files for extra practice

You’ll revisit these folders again and again — building up your GSAP skills one layer at a time.

💻 Setup Your Workspace (5 mins max)

1️⃣ Clone The Repo

If you’re new to Git:

Watch our Git & GitHub crash course linked below.

git clone https://github.com/JavaScript-Mastery-Pro/ultimate-gsap-starter.git

Or just download as ZIP and extract.

2️⃣ Open In VS Code

• Download VS Code if you don’t have it.
• Drag the repo folder into VS Code.

3️⃣ Install VS Code Extensions

(Optional but recommended)

• ✅ Live Server — Instant browser reload as you code.
• ✅ One Dark Pro — Clean dark theme.
• ✅ Prettier — Code formatting.

4️⃣ Open The Live Server

• Right-click index.html → Open with Live Server.
• You’ll see the starter page for the lesson you're working on.
• You’re ready to animate.

🔍 Quick Workflow Tips

• Keep your browser console open (Cmd + Opt + J on Mac / F12 on Windows).
• Dock console right/bottom to see changes live.
• Resize your workspace so you always see code + browser side by side.
• Refresh constantly. Animation is visual feedback — build the muscle memory.

🔄 Practice = Progress

This entire course is built around rapid iteration:

• Try every snippet.
• Change durations.
• Swap easing curves.
• Modify scales and rotations.
• Make it feel alive.

This is how you develop animation taste —

the thing most developers never build.

⚠️ A Note on Failure

You will:

• Break things.
• Get weird behaviors.
• See unexpected snapping.

Good.

That’s where 90% of your learning happens.

🚀 Quick Recap: What You’ll Build

• ✅ Small isolated animations
• ✅ Full animation flows
• ✅ Scroll-based interactive sections
• ✅ Micro-interaction libraries
• ✅ Real-world emotional design projects
• ✅ Full GTA VI landing page clone

By the end, you won’t just know GSAP.

You’ll be building agency-level production work most developers only admire from a distance.