It`s already known by designers and developers that backgrounds are one of the most important aspects in the overall design and feel of a web page. Recently people have been turning to animation to add more visual interest to their website background. These animated backgrounds are great when used as a site introduction, functional hover navigation elements, and other creative ways to attract interest and draw users in. So if you are in desperate need of some inspiration for a site background, today we`d like to share 25 Awesome Web Background Animation Effects using Canvas and SVG for your inspiration.
Interactive Animated 3D Background Ad
Blob is animated, interactive and highly customizable 3D background. Visual editor included. Supports morphing and other shape transitions. Created as Javascript plugin based on HTML5 Canvas.
Sakura
Rain Effect
Interactive mosaic background
Color Changing
Wave Animation
Landscape animation experiment
Animated Background Header
Floating Cloud Background
Parallax Star background in CSS
Pure CSS3 Gradient Background Animation
Canvas Parallax Skyline
Jquery & CSS3 background
Parallax backgrounds with walk cycle
Misty
Lowpoly Dynamic
Clean Slider With Curved Background
Change background colour with fade animation as you scroll
Ambient
Particles
Scrolling Terrain and Shooting Stars
Crystal Caves
rainbow lines of straightness
Hero Animated Canvas Background
Long shadow
SVG Animation
nice collection! while searching for animated background also saw another one which looks promising too: http://makebackground.io
Awesome! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Very cool! I am going to be looking at these examples closely! Excellent article!
wow!! Nice collection. thanks
Nice! I am going to be able to be looking at these kinds of examples closely! Excellent write-up
Great collection! Just what I was looking for. Thank you for putting together
Very good animated background, excellent collection !!
is “Animated Background Header-Explore space ” free?
Or I have to pay for it?
Crystal Caves is cool, but not work on my site. height problem on scroll down.
Awesome awesome list of animations / code, amazing work by creative people and great job in curating them in one place 🙂 Helped me to come up with some unique design ideas as well.
Thanks again.
Very good, Thanks for sharing..
Awesome list! Very useful to get inspiration.
I know about this one too which provide 3D effects: https://app.naker.io/back/
Hi everyone, I’m just new in web designing so forgive me if this may sound stupid:
How do I get one of this effects to be displayed as background of my page? I work on wordpress with WP Bakery.
Hire someone like me!!
when we downlaod your animated picture, there are plenty of css problem, what do we do with this?
I have tried few but always when I copy/paste the code in my css, html and js files the syntax is wrong.(like if it was written in another language) what should I modify?
Let’s take “Parallax Star background in CSS” as example.
Any one to help me understand this? I would appreciate it.
yes I can help u
with it make it all inline.
Wow, I loved the Stars Background. I would love to use it on one of my website 🙂
Thank you so much.
These backgrounds are great, too bad not all are responsive – thx 🙂
thats prefect thanks i used love It
I’m using the Parallax Star background in CSS (pure CSS animation), for my Vue App. B’coz I’m using SCSS version, so I’m tune a little bit for the code.
This is my CodePen for SCSS version.
https://codepen.io/altairzeheb/pen/vYKbvpE
Thankyou brother, im gonna use that CSS in my website, thankyou !
Majority of these dont work!
Nice background animation effects… I like it….
great.. I’ve been wanting to change the background for a long time
Crystal Caves is cool, but not work on my site. height problem on scroll down.