We used to do a lot of animation in house with Flash and Action Script 3. There were some great tools and libraries out there to help with the position of items and opacity and all that not-as-fun-stuff.
One of my favorite libraries for AS3 was TweenLite from GreenSock. It made moving objects around super easy, and it was super fasts too. Luckily, they reciently released their awesome libraries for JavaScript, so I took to the text editor and made a quick fourth of July animation. Check it out below, and the code is after the break…
