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animation

Sequence

One timeline orchestrates a row of bars into a travelling wave. Drag across it to scrub time by hand; let go and it plays on.

Focus

A study in choreography — sequence as something you can author and scrub.

Medium

GSAP

Duration

Ongoing

Last updated

June 2026

00 / Intro

The bars above are driven by a single timeline. Each one rises, warms, and settles a beat after its neighbour — a wave you can watch play, or grab and scrub backwards and forwards by dragging across it.

01 / Notes

Why this
one.

Most of what makes work feel considered is sequence — the order in which things arrive, resolve, and give way to the next thing. A good process has the same quality as a good timeline: you can pause it, scrub it, and explain why each moment lands where it does.

02 / Notes

How it
works.

GSAP builds one master timeline; each bar gets a staggered pair of tweens (rise, then settle) placed at an offset down the line, and a playhead is tied to the same clock. Dragging pauses playback and maps the cursor's x-position onto the timeline's progress — so the whole choreography becomes a thing you hold in your hand.

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