WebGL has been all the rage for years now when it comes to creative and immersive websites, as nearly every winning website on AWWWARDS uses it in some capacity. It has a lot to offer when it comes to rendering real time graphics, visualisations and interactive animations in the browser.
As it is based upon OpenGL, which by itself is heavily intertwined with video games and computer graphics, WebGL gives us fully fledged access to the GPU from Javascript and the ability to do advanced graphics programming with shaders right in the browser.
As it is quite low-level and more complicated than other web APIs, most frontend developers use it via some high level library that hides away all of the operations going under the hood. This in effect takes away power from them and forces them to rely on code other people wrote. The results are often bloated websites, loading entire 3D libraries for simple effects that can be done in a few hundreds lines of code.
If one understands how vanilla WebGL itself produces pixels on the screen, she will have a much easier time implementing all the cool, award winning effects with confidence and without relying on other people's code. Furthermore, knowing the internals will give any frontend developer an edge and an intro to any good web agency.
If fancy effects and slick graphics are your thing, join me in nerding about all things graphics programming related with this WebGL course.
This course is for beginner to intermediate frontend developers, some basic JS knowledge is required.
Pre-order. This special price is available as you are buying the course in advance. The course will be available by the end of December. The price will increase as we get closer to the date and once it’s online it will be full price - so register now for a big discount.
(*) The times of the chapters as well as the total duration of the course are approximate and may have some variation
The subtitles are automatically generated, so the quality of the captions may vary.9 sections • 27 lectures • 7 hours 30 mins
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Intro2 lectures 12:00 Mins
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Welcome02:00 Mins
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Brief history of WebGL and web graphics10:00 Mins
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WebGL drawing fundamentals7 lectures 3 Hours 20 Mins
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Structure of a WebGL program and the rendering pipeline30:00 Mins
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Drawing a single point1 Hour
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Adding more points with mouse clicks20:00 Mins
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Drawing lines20:00 Mins
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The WebGL coordinate system20:00 Mins
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Drawing triangles20:00 Mins
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Colors30:00 Mins
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WebGL Textures2 lectures 45:00 Mins
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From images25:00 Mins
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Dynamically created via a <canvas /> element20:00 Mins
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Moving, rotating and scaling5 lectures 1 Hour 5 Mins
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Translation25:00 Mins
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Rotation05:00 Mins
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Scaling05:00 Mins
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Combining multiple transformations15:00 Mins
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Basic animation15:00 Mins
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Building a WebGL slider3 lectures 50:00 Mins
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Bootstrapping the app20:00 Mins
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Passing images as a texture array to WebGL15:00 Mins
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Writing the transitions using GLSL15:00 Mins
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Building an image scroll effect3 lectures 40:00 Mins
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Bootstrapping the app15:00 Mins
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Load the image and pass it to WebGL05:00 Mins
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Generate dynamic texture coordinates based on scroll20:00 Mins
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Building a camera effect2 lectures 25:00 Mins
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Getting camera video feed in WebGL10:00 Mins
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Applying shaders to our camera feed15:00 Mins
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Particles animation2 lectures 30:00 Mins
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Bootstrapping the app15:00 Mins
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Writing the animation logic in our vertex shader15:00 Mins
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Conclusion1 lectures 05:00 Mins
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Conclusion05.00 Mins
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