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title: "Creating a Thumbnail Flow Animation with GSAP MotionPath"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/creating-a-thumbnail-flow-animation-with-gsap-motionpath-6vv0fx8rf
source_url: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2026/06/04/creating-a-thumbnail-flow-animation-with-gsap-motionpath
type: article
source: "Codrops"
published: 2026-06-04T11:00:35.708Z
updated: 2026-06-04T11:00:57.729Z
tags: ["javascript", "web-animation"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 6
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Creating a Thumbnail Flow Animation with GSAP MotionPath

**[Codrops](https://daily.dev/sources/codrops)** · 5 min read · 6 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

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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## Community discussion

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**@springtofigh** · 0 upvotes

> That was a beautiful animation—great work! 👏

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