For the ones who make it move ✨

Our new collection of motion design and animation highlights is live!

Tap in, get inspired: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/08/30/motion-highlights-12/

There's still time to enter the #WishYouWereHerePenpot contest.

Share your “I wish…” for the future of design and development and you could win a free ticket to Penpot Fest 2025 in Madrid.

More details here: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/08/04/wish-you-were-here-win-a-free-ticket-to-penpot-fest-2025/

We’re kicking off September with a fresh tutorial by Joffrey Spitzer ⚡️

Learn how to rebuild Palmer’s draggable product grid with GSAP — smooth scrolling, Flip transitions, SplitText reveals & more.

A hands-on way to level up your animation skills: https://tympanus.net/codrops/?p=99444

Today Mathieu from Jitter shares how the team reimagined their website to highlight collaboration, creativity, and motion design at scale. Built with React, GSAP, and Jitter itself.

Read the full story: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/09/02/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-the-new-jitter-website/ Don’t miss the little gift at the end of the article!

Today we've got sensei Carl Schooff sharing 7 epic GSAP tips for creative developers!

From smarter staggers to smoother timeScale tricks, these insights will supercharge your animation toolbox 🌟

Don't miss it: https://tympanus.net/codrops/?p=99773

🚨 Deadline extended! 🚨

Share your “I wish…” for the future of design & dev and win a FREE ticket to Penpot Fest 2025 (Oct 8–10, Madrid) 🎟️🇪🇸

Post with #WishYouWereHerePenpot + tag @PenpotApp by Sept 11.

Don’t miss out 👀

If you ever tried building with the Model Context Protocol, you know the complexity. At basement.studio, that challenge led to the creation of the xmcp framework.

In today’s article, Valentina Bearzotti explains how it helps developers connect LLMs to real-world data: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/09/04/from-zero-to-mcp-simplifying-ai-integrations-with-xmcp/

From slow living to bold digital design, Thierry Chopain of type8 studio shares how clarity, collaboration, and craft shape his award-winning work.

Read his inspiring story: https://tympanus.net/codrops/?p=97776

The Molly team has joined Shopify, bringing a culture of experimentation, craft, and code.

We spoke with CDO Carl Rivera about why design has never been more important in shaping AI's future: https://tympanus.net/codrops/?p=99891

With soul, story, and sparkle, Célia Lopez transforms 3D into a magical art that connects and inspires! ✨

Dive into her imaginative worlds in our latest spotlight: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/09/10/between-reality-and-emotion-the-3d-storytelling-of-celia-lopez/

For more than 15 years, Codrops has been a place for sharing experimental demos that push the boundaries of web design and development. Over time, we've also highlighted many creative demos from the community in our demo roundups and newsletter.

For this reason we have evolved our Demos Hub into the new Creative Hub, which brings everything together in one place: a growing collection of hand-picked, open-source demos from Codrops and beyond.

It's a space to discover, learn from, and celebrate the creativity of the web community.

We're curating this collection carefully, but we also welcome submissions from creators who'd like to share their work.

Come and explore the new Creative Hub: https://tympanus.net/codrops/hub/

In today's behind-the-scenes, the team of Unseen Studio® shares how a simple idea grew from concept and visuals into a playful experiment built with Rapier and Three.js: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/09/11/when-cells-collide-the-making-of-an-organic-particle-experiment-with-rapier-three-js/

Design that balances clarity and curiosity. Tokyo-based designer Mengchu Yao opens up about her path, her process, and the projects that define her craft: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/09/12/designer-spotlight-mengchu-yao/

Ever wish you could collect inspiration at the component level, not just full sites?

In our latest article, Kevin Kopp shares the journey of building inspo.page — a library of animations, sections & interactions that spark better design: https://tympanus.net/codrops/?p=99548

When Droip first showed us their builder, the response was incredible. We’re excited to have their team back to share exactly how you can take a Figma design and turn it into a live WordPress site in just minutes.

Read the tutorial: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/09/16/from-figma-to-wordpress-in-minutes-with-droip/

Ever started something just for fun and realized you'd accidentally built a whole platform?

That's what happened to Mike van der Sanden. From moodboards and late-night sketches to Nuxt.js builds and interactive code, here's his fascinating story: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/09/17/the-making-of-a-personal-project-platform-a-portfolio-that-grew-out-of-process-and-play/

Today we have an amazing in-depth tutorial by Carter Rink on building a real-time 3D weather visualization with React Three Fiber. 🌦️

It covers particle systems, instancing, clouds, storms, API-driven logic, and performance optimizations.

Don't miss it: https://tympanus.net/codrops/?p=100562

The SNP and DashDigital teams share insights from building the LO2S website, combining bold visuals with seamless performance for a motion-driven experience.

Explore it here: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/09/19/lo2s-x-snp-dashdigital-designing-a-website-full-of-movement-and-energy/

If your September felt like crazy ups and downs on repeat, you're not alone 🎢😵‍💫

But the Equinox is here 🌞🌚 and what better way to mark the reset than with some amazing new motion design highlights to get your creativity flowing?

Get inspired: https://tympanus.net/codrops/?p=101298

Blender, liminal spaces, and the eerie beauty hidden in the everyday.

A fascinating interview with digital artist Kakeru Taira on turning overlooked places into haunting works of art: https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/09/22/where-silence-speaks-kakeru-taira-on-transforming-everyday-spaces-into-liminal-experiences/

Ever wondered how duct tape, everyday chaos, and code could shape a portfolio?

Step into Lax Space, as Lax Chee takes us inside his experimental site and the playful ideas behind it: https://tympanus.net/codrops/?p=100137