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Create a moving BOT illustration using CSS

Creating illustrations in CSS is like a hobby with perks ๐ŸŽจ . I learned to create illustrations using CSS a few weeks earlier. So I put my skills in creating a moving bot illustration.

Moving Bot

Requirements:

  • HTML
  • CSS

Let's Start ๐Ÿ

HTML structure:

   <div class="container">
       <div class="bot">
           <div class="bot_head">
               <div class="left_eye"></div>
               <div class="right_eye"></div>
           </div>
           <div class="stomach"></div>
       </div>
   </div>
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.container is to wrap the whole screen

.bot is to wrap the bot, it will be used to set the maximum width and height of the bot

.bot_head is for the head of the bot

.left_eye & .right_eye is for the eyes of the bot

.stomach is for the lower part of the bot

Apply CSS:

Set width,height 100% of both html & body

   html,
   body{
      width:100%;
      height:100%;
      padding:0px;
      margin:0px;
      }
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Set

position: absolute

to all tags so that left, right, bottom, top attributes can be used.

    *{
      position:absolute;
    }

    *:after,*:before{
      position:absolute;
      content:'';
    }
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Apply flexbox in .container in order to justify the bot at the centre of the screen.

   .container{
      width:100%;
      height:100%;
      display:flex;
      justify-content:center;
      align-items:center;
      }
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set custom width & height for the bot container which is .bot, use flexbox to make its content justify & align centre.

   .bot{
       width:250px;
       height:400px;
       display:flex;
       align-items:center;
       flex-direction:column;
       }
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now we can finally start with styling bot's body parts. โœจ

BotHead:

border-radius will be useful to create the head of bot

   .bot_head{
       background:#66e366;
       width:150px;
       height:110px;
       top:10%;
       border-radius:30px 30px 30px 10px;
}
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border-radius: top-left top-right bottom-right bottom-left

The bot_head will look like this

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In order to create a pointed triangle in the bot head, which will make it look like a chatbot head, we will use the :after pseudo-elements of CSS .

  .bot_head:after{
       width:40px;
       height:40px;
       bottom:-17px;
       left:5px;
       background:inherit;
       clip-path: polygon(48% 100%, 0 0, 100% 0);
     }
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The clip-path CSS property creates a clipping region that sets what part of an element should be shown .
You can use BennettFeely to generate clip-path.

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Eyes:

For the Eyes, we will create two circles both for left and right eyes

   .left_eye{
         width:30px;
         height:30px;
         background:white;
         border-radius:50%;
         top:30px;
         left:30px;
         }
    .right_eye{
         width:30px;
         height:30px;
         background:white;
         border-radius:50%;
         top:30px;
         right:30px;
     }
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left:30px will move the .left_eye 30px from the left.

right:30px will move the .right_eye 30px from right.

we have written similar code for both left_eye and right_eye in order to use separate left & right CSS properties. However, using sass can reduce the repetition but we are not using it in this article.

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Stomach Part:

create a big circle and move it 45% from top

   .stomach{
      width:150px;
      height:150px;
      border-radius:50%;
      top:45%;
      background:#43bfe6;
     }
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Awesome we have our bot ready.

stomach

Animation:

Definition by Mozilla docs:
''CSS animations make it possible to animate transitions from one CSS style configuration to another. Animations consist of two components, a style describing the CSS animation and a set of keyframes that indicate the start and end states of the animationโ€™s style, as well as possible intermediate waypoints.''

The CSS style properties & keyframes are used in order to create animations.

How to create Keyframes:

@keyframes AnimationName{
     0%{
        /* some css property */
        left: 20px;
      },
     50%{
        left:40px;
      }
     100%{
        /* some css property */
        left: 0px;
        }
}
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here AnimationName can be any name you prefer to use like jump, bounce, slide etc.
we are telling keyframe that at 0% of animation make the element shift to left 20px, at 50% 40px to the left and at 100% of animation return back to 0px from left.

How to use Keyframes:

CSS animation property is used to apply the keyframes.

Syntax:

animation: animation-name animation-duration animation-timing-function animation-iteration-count;
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animation-name: identifier for the keyframe.

animation-duration: how long the animation should take to finish.

animation-timing-function: It specifies the speed curve of an animation.

animation-iteration-count: how many times the animation should iterate.

You can read in detail about animation at css-tricks

let's apply the animation in our cute bot.

create keyframes for the stomach:

   @keyframes stomach_move{
    0%,50%,100%{
       left:15%; /* we can set same style for multiple percentage */
     }
    25%{
      left:-35%;
     }
    75%{
      left:100%;
     }
   }
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At 0%, 50% & 100% of the animation the bot will be at 15%(towards right side) from the left,it is the starting and ending position of animation.
At 25% the bot will move -35%(towards left side) from the left.
At 75% the bot will move 100%(towards right side) from the left.

In left:100% the 100% is the complete width of the .bot class which is 250px.

Apply stomach_move keyframe in .stomach class under animation property

   .stomach{
       width:150px;
       height:150px;
       border-radius:50%;
       top:45%; 
       background:#43bfe6;
       animation: stomach_move 3s ease infinite;
    }
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Stomach move

The stomach is moving left & right.
The animation-iteration-count is set to infinite which will make the animation iterate infinitely.

create keyframes for the bot_head:

   @keyframes bot_head_motion{
     0%,50%,100%{
       left:25%;
     }
     25%{
      left:-45%;
      transform:rotate(-20deg)
     }
     75%{
      left:90%;
      transform:rotate(20deg)
      }
  }
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''The transform property applies a 2D or 3D transformation to an element. This property allows you to rotate, scale, move, skew, etc., elements. ''
At 25% the bot head will rotate -20deg and at 75% it will rotate by 20deg.

Apply bot_head_motion keyframe in .bot_head class

      .bot_head{
        background:#66e366;
        width:150px;
        height:110px;
        top:10%;
        border-radius:30px 30px 30px 10px;
        animation: bot_head_motion 3s ease infinite;
}
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and tada ๐ŸŽ‰ the bot is moving ๐Ÿ˜„

Moving Bot

Here is my codepen:

ThankYou for reading this ๐Ÿ˜„
Feel free to customize the animations on your own.

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