Image into Interactive Particles - HTML Canvas Animation Tutorial | Advanced Pure Vanilla JavaScript

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In today's HTML canvas animation tutorial we will turn image into interactive particles using some advanced pure vanilla JavaScript techniques. Do you like pixel art? I will show you how to use drawImage and getImageData methods (that are available on HTML canvas 2D API) to extract pixel information from any image and redraw it with JavaScript. Once we have the particle data we can animate it in any way we want, only limit is your imagination and creativity.

If you liked this video I'm sure you will enjoy other videos on my channel. You can find HTML Canvas Animation Tutorials, JavaScript tutorials, animated effects and step by step animation guides, each video shows many examples of the final effect. I will help you learn modern web development techniques by building real projects you can show off on your personal website or GitHub. Code along with me and gain skills to get your first job in the industry. If I could do it you can do it too. If you decide to code along and modify the effects, share your Codepen/JS Fiddle in the comments, I want to see what you came up with.

I have pure vanilla JavaScript animation series, in each tutorial we create all different kinds of interactive animated effects from scratch. No plugins, no libraries, no frameworks. Every line of code is explained to give you hands on experience and teach you as much JavaScript as possible. If you want more creative JavaScript tutorials, HTML canvas animations, interactive animated effects, code alongs, video guides for beginners as well as advanced pure vanilla JavaScript, check out the previous episodes here:
Part 1 - HTML Canvas & Vanilla JavaScript Animation Series 1 - Floating Particles Effect
Part 2 - HTML Canvas & Vanilla JavaScript Animation Series 2 - Animated Clouds Effect
Part 3 - Particles JS Effect with Pure Vanilla JavaScript | Animated Background Tutorial with Examples
Part 4 - Spinning Stars in Vanilla JS & HTML Canvas Animated Backgrounds Coding Tutorial
Part 5 - Eye Balls Animation - JavaScript HTML5 Canvas Effect Tutorial Trigonometry & Circles With No Overlap

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My name is Frank, I'm a self-taught Front End Web Developer. I learned everything I know in my free time and I used the knowledge to get a great job in web development industry. The part I enjoy the most is building creative animations and interactive effects for the web using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Thank you for watching my video.

If you want to improve your Front End Web Developmnent skills, check out my CSS tutorial series where we explore animations and effects that can be done with modern CSS3 techniques:

You can find base 64 code of the image here (it is not fully functional demo of this effect, I just dropped few lines of code there so you can copy the image code):

*** Image into Interactive Particles - HTML Canvas Animation Tutorial | Advanced Pure Vanilla JavaScript ***

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[larjasoul]

The stuff you do with canvas is insane. You're absolutely a gem of a youtuber. 8/8.

[Nob.At.Life.]

Frank thank you so much!!! This is my first time using JS and I can’t believe what you’ve helped me create! You were clear, concise, and very helpful! I especially appreciate that you explained every function and variable as you did it. Thank you!!!

[fexit-kf]

Thank
One of the best vanilla js Chanel!!

[Bass_computer]

i was able to get this to work too. The calculations made my head spin though, I will need some time before i fully understand what's happening here

[LeonTheSnake]

Thank you so much, bro! Finding your channel was one of the best things of 2020! Please, keep it up! You are awesome!

[javifontalva]

I am learning so much from you. Thank you!

[seungju_hong]

I always feel so interesting when I see your videos, I feel like I want to be your disciple
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledges

[nate]

You deserve 10x the subscribers you have. I have been using YouTube for self-teaching and have seen many, many videos from many, many teachers. You definitely rank up there as far as unique, interesting content goes. These are a lot of fun to make -- thanks again.

[oliverlange]

Dear Frank, thanks a lot for this very insightfull video !!!!
A question - is it possible in any way that thre is noch mouse action be needed for animation? What i'm looking for is that the animation runs automatically instead of reacting on mouse events? Do you have suggestion on this?
thanks and regards
Oliver

[CodingJourney]

Great project and production quality! I usually watch videos at 1.5 or 1.75 speed...definitely normal speed for this one and many pauses 🙂 now feels like my brain turned into particles and someone is hovering over 😄 Keep up the good work man!!

[vladosononame]

Thank you so much! This is working fine, smooth and cool!

[nguyenthomas]

This is amazing! But i have a question that can we replace "dot" with image - like an image is form by a particle system of small images ?

[bollywoodkaraokefree]

You are awesome Frank, I liked your video so much… You gave me deep knowledge. Thank you so much for bringing imaginary coding on floor.... :)

[poornajithd]

1. Can we change black background to transparent ?
(I want to put background layer behind canvas1 with image or video ).
Thank you for your tutorial sir.

[_GOUTHAM]

Before watching this Ive watched many of your videos now I can understand but small question why are you converting to base 64 what does it mean please explain Frank.

[akmalkrmv]

Great videos my friend! This whole canvas series is very good. There is question about loading an image, cant you just set source attribute to relative path or any other URL to images, instead of converting to base64? isnt it redundant?

[worldofstrings]

Excellent teaching! CAN you make the text larger so we don't strain our eyes? Good work.

[HyprSpc]

This is really amazing, Frank. Do you think this is also possible to do on a SVG?

[erturkyorulmaz]

Sir, is'nt it possible not to use base64. Can't we load an image from comp. or remote drive giving path?

[MrWebDesignerAnas]

Bro I can't see the code clearly please make screen larger.