A hands-on tutorial building a thumbnail gallery animation where stacked images unfold into a vertical strip using GSAP's MotionPath plugin. Covers HTML structure, calculating scaled thumbnail positions, defining two-point curved motion paths with curviness, and assembling everything into a GSAP timeline with staggered animations and a featured image reveal. The key insight is that sharing the same path definition across thumbnails while varying only the final Y position causes GSAP to generate organically different arcs for each image.
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HTML StructurePositioning the Thumbnail StripCreating the Motion Path AnimationBuilding the TimelineConclusion11.6K Impressions1 Comment