Animated Cursor

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Custom cursors certainly were a big trend in web development in 2018. In the following tutorial we’ll take a look at how to create a magnetic noisy circle cursor for navigation elements as shown in Demo 4. We’ll be using Paper.js with Simplex Noise.

The Cursor Markup

The markup for the cursor will be split up into two elements. A simple <div> for the small white dot and a <Canvas> element to draw the red noisy circle using Paper.js.

Basic Colors and Layout

To give our demo some color and layout we’re defining some basic styles.

The Basic Cursor Styles

Basically both cursor elements have a fixed position. To be exactly at the tip of the mouse pointer, we adjust left and top of the small cursor. The canvas will simply fill the whole viewport.

The Link Element(s)

For the sake of simplicity we will just take one link element which contains an SVG icon that we can then animate on hover.

The Navigation and Link Styles

Here we’re defining some styles for the navigation, its items and hover transitions.

Including Paper and SimplexNoise

As mentioned before, we need to include Paper.js. To animate the noisy circle we need Simplex Noise in addition to that.

Hiding the System Cursor

Because we’re building our own cursor, we need to make sure to not show the system’s cursor in its normal state and when hovering links.

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Animating the Small Dot Cursor

In order to have smooth performance we use a requestAnimationFrame()-loop.

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Setting up the Circle on Canvas

The following is the basis for the red circle part of the cursor. In order to move the red circle around we’ll use a technique called linear interpolation.

Handling the Hover State

Making the Circle “Magnetic” and “Noisy”

The following snipped is the extended version of the above-mentioned paper.view.onFrame method.

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General Remarks

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and have fun playing around with it in your own projects. Of course this is just a starting point and you can go crazier with animations, shapes, colors etc. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out or shoot me a tweet!

References and Credits

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  • Images from Unsplash.com
  • Paper.js by Jürg Lehni & Jonathan Puckey
  • Simplex Noise by Jonas Wagner
  • PhotoSwipe by Dmitry Semenov
  • Swiper by iDangero.us
  • TweenMax by Greensock
  • Lazysizes by Alexander Farkas

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