Working with Advanced 3D CSS: New Premium Screencast
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Working with Advanced 3D CSS: New Premium Screencast

on Apr 28th 2010 with 28 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Technology: CSS
  • Difficulty: Intermediate - Advanced
  • Format: Screencast

CSS is capable of so much more than browsers can currently handle, namely when it comes to working in 3D spaces. In this week’s premium video tutorial, I’m going to teach you how to work with CSS transitions, animations, and specifically how to work with Webkit’s CSS 3D capabilities. Help give back to Nettuts+ by becoming a premium member!

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You’ll Learn About:

  • CSS3 radial gradients
  • HTML5 mark-up
  • Using the Webkit nightlies
  • CSS perspective
  • Defining keyframes for animations
  • preserve-3d

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  • http://themeforest.net/user/themolitor?ref=themolitor THE MOLITOR

    Holy cow, that’s insane!

  • GorillaWma

    Omg, so insane and all done with CSS3? Wow, I really couldn’t imagine we will be able to do something like that with CSS. Who knows what more we will find out from CSS3 in future. I’m sure that’s not all ! :D

  • J. Revuelta

    Geez, man… I hope you never lose your ability to surprise your public once and again :))

    Awesome!

  • Raf1k1

    This looks cool. I’m definitely going to try it.

    • Raf1k1

      BTW I think this site could really do with a forum. It would be awsome to chat with others about web design and any issues people might have when following tutorials.

      • http://davekingsnorth.com Dave Kingsnorth

        I second that

      • kewalter

        Third

      • colin

        Agreed. This would be an awesome place for a community.

        This is a great tutorial. I can’t wait to get a few minutes and try it out.

      • http://www.nunomedia.com Nuno

        I agree with that as well, but…
        Usually forums makes the content too close in my opinion, it should be good to have a better way to discuss about tutorials.

      • http://www.woony.be woony

        true , these comments are in no way a good overview.

    • arnold

      I agree also

      • tigerthemes

        Agreed.

  • krisnrg

    Looks good…

  • http://www.samdailey.com SamD

    That’s some impressive stuff. I have been meaning to start my membership…

  • http://www.fatlizardmedia.com Juan C Rois

    This is really awesome. I can’t wait for CSS3 and HTML5 to become standard.
    I’ll play with all this in the meantime, but it is so exciting to see all the new features that would be available to implement in the future.
    Thanks a lot Jeff for letting us in on this.

  • http://taylorhutchison.com Taylor Hutchison

    Great tutorial! It mostly works on the iphone/ipod touch now but it is adding some transparency for some reason.

    Question for everyone. Why do you think we are more accepting of webkit specific methods whereas we consider IE specific methods to be counter-productive to the growth of the web?

    • Grant Johnson

      It depends on which set of features were talking about. Getting PNGs to show up in IE6 feels weird and unintuitive (at least the 3 methods Ive used has). Compared to Gecko and Webkit, it paints the picture that IE specific features are restricted to unintuitive methods to do what other browsers do by default.

      That, and there are very few tutorials/evangelists for IE specific methods. A great example of this would be the drag-and-drop features that have been in IE since 4.0 and improved for 5 and 5.5.

      Webkit is fashionable. Their features seem to be easily understood improvements which highlight IEs age. For example, there are methods for drop shadows in IE, webkit and gecko (opera too?). All of them are different, but IEs seems very different from the others and the w3c spec. IEs method feels proprietary while the others only are proprietary — if that makes sense.

      One issue that I dont know much about is why they need the webkit specific syntax. There is a 3d spec in css3, so why dont they just use w3c property names? Id appreciate any enlightenment on this.

  • http://spotdex.com Davidmoreen

    This is really cool, but I hope that nettuts will come out with some HTML5 canvas tuts some time. I never liked flash and can’t wait to do things that flash has been known for doing well…

  • http://codendesign.blogspot.com nXqd

    It’s really cool . Thanks so much :)

  • http://www.weblabs.be simon

    Nice tutorial, definitly worth going premium for

  • http://cardview.net Cardview

    Oh, that`s soooo cool!

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    really an unbeleiveable tut. definitely premium

  • http://mac-apps.pl Seed

    That’s the reason why I think that Flash is dead.
    Great job!

  • DDStudios

    Nice to see my design in this 3D box :D

    This tutorial should be exciting.

  • http://www.diytuts.com Justin C.

    Very cool tutorial! Its pretty amazing what we as designers are able to do using only CSS. I dont think this will be the last thing we see come out of CSS either..

  • http://beautifulemails.com Mohammad Koubeissi

    Insane! – Cant wait to actually see this in action on a production site.

  • http://www.creativecaptain.com Hugo

    Rotations on the y-axis and x-axis? 3D is all about the z-axis, thats whats makes it 3D :)! Amazing stuff, I didn’t know you could actually do this only with CSS? Keep up the good work!

  • http://www.feathersdesigns.com punithan

    good stuff!! thanks