CSS Windsurfing - Lena Design

I love water sports – can’t wait to Windsurf again!

Thinking about the wind and the waves I created the Windsurfing animation using just pure CSS.

*animation opened in the Safari browser.
To see the live output of the animation click here.

To create the animation you’ll need 2 images of the waves in .png format. For your training, you can use mine pictures below which I created in Adobe Photoshop, and then follow the steps below:

Add HTML
Add CSS
Add CSS Animation

Step1.

Add HTML

<div class="container">
  <div class="windserfing">
    <div class="sail">
      <div class="boom"></div>
      <div class="mast"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="board"></div>
    <div class="surfer">
      <div class="head"></div>
      <div class="hair"></div>
      <div class="sunglasses"></div>
      <div class="top"></div>
      <div class="shorts"></div>
      <div class="leg"></div>
      <div class="leg2"></div>
      <div class="arm"></div>
      <div class="arm2"></div>
    </div>
    </div>
   <div class="wave1"></div>
   <div class="wave2"></div>
</div>

Step2.

Add CSS

Set the colour and the position of the background, container:

body {
  background-color: #9bf6ff;
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
  height: 100vh;
  
}
.container {
  position: relative;
  
}

Style the Sail:

.windsurfing {
  position:relative; 
  animation: surf 2s ease infinite;
}

.sail{
  position: relative;
  width: 0;
  height: 0;
  border-top: 280px solid transparent;
  border-right: 110px solid rgba(237, 246, 125, 0.95);
  border-bottom: 50px solid transparent;
  transform-style: preserve-3d;
  left:30px;
  top:-40px;
  z-index:5;
}
.sail:before {
  position: absolute;
  content:"";
  width:65px;
  height:5px;
  background-color: #F896D8;
  border-radius:100px;
  top:-130px;
  left:50px;
  transform: rotate(25deg);
}
.sail:after {
  position: absolute;
  content:"";
  width:123px;
  height:5px;
  background-color: #F896D8;
  border-radius:100px;
  top:20px;
  left:-7px;
  transform: rotate(25deg);
}

.boom {
  width: 145px;
  height: 150px;
  border: solid 10px black;
  border-radius: 50%;
  top: -125px; 
  left: -20px; 
  position: absolute;
  transform: rotate3d(0.4, 0.2, 0, 75deg); 
  box-sizing: border-box;
}
.mast {
  position: absolute;
  width:5px;
  height:360px;
  background-color: black;
  left:110px;
  top:-280px;
  border-radius:100px;
  z-index:1;
}
.mast:before {
  position: absolute;
  content:"";
  background-color:black;
  width:25px;
  height:10px;
  top:350px;
  left:-10px;
  border-radius:30px 30px 0 0;
}

Style the Board:

.board {
  width:300px;
  height: 50px;
  position:absolute;
  background-color: #724CF9;
  border-radius:50%;
  left:-60px;
  top:300px;
  box-shadow: inset 15px -10px 0 #564592;
}
.board:after {
  content:"";
  position: absolute;
  border-radius:0 0 100% 50%;
  width:20px;
  height:40px;
  background-color: #564592;
  left:40px;
  top:40px;
  transform: skew(-25deg);
}

Add the Windsurfer:

.surfer {
  position:absolute;
  top:0;
  left:0;
}
.head {
  position:absolute;
  background-color: #ffcb69;
  border-radius:50%; 
  width:45px;
  height:50px;
  top:110px;
  left:-55px;
  box-shadow: inset 3px 8px 0 black;
}
.head:before {
  position:absolute;
  content:"";
  width:15px;
  height:15px;
  background-color: #ffcb69;
  left:35px;
  top:20px;
  border-radius: 0 40px;
  
}
.head:after {
  content:"";
  position: absolute;
  border-radius:50%;
  box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 black;
  width:15px;
  height:15px;
  top:15px;
  left:10px;
}

.sunglasses {
  position: absolute;
  width: 8px;
  height:15px;
  border-radius:50%;
  background-color: brown;
  top:120px;
  z-index:5; 
  left:-15px;
  box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 black;
  
}
.sunglasses:before {
  content:"";
  position:absolute;
  width:25px;
  height:3px;
  background-color:black;
  top:5px;
  left:-22px;
}

.sunglasses:after {
  content:"";
  position:absolute;
  width:10px;
  height:10px;
  background-color:black;
  border-radius:50%;
  top:-10px;
  left:-5px;
}

.top {
  position:absolute;
  width:20px;
  height:50px;
  border-top: 25px solid #41ead4;
  border-left: 35px solid #41ead4;
  border-bottom: 30px solid transparent;
  border-right: 20px solid transparent;
  border-radius:50%;
  top:150px;
  left:-70px;
}

.shorts {
  z-index:5;
  position:absolute;
  width:45px;
  height:40px;
  background-color: #CC444B;
  top:225px;
  left:-60px;
  transform: skew(10deg) rotate(-40deg);
  border-radius: 30px 0 0 0;
}
.shorts:before {
  content:"";
  position:absolute;
  width:36px;
  height:40px;
  background-color: #DA5552;
  top:7px;
  left:8px;
  border-radius: 30px 0 0 0;
  transform: skew(5deg) rotate(-30deg);
}

.shorts:after {
  content:"";
  position: absolute;
  width:38px;
  height:10px;
  left:10px;
  background-color: #CC444B;
}

.leg {
  position:absolute;
  width:5px;
  height:70px;
  background-color: #ffcb69;
  top:250px;
  left:5px;
  transform: rotate(-35deg);
}

.leg:before {
  content:"";
  position:absolute;
  background-color: #ffcb69;
  width:30px;
  height:10px;
  border-radius: 0 30px 0 0;
  top:70px;
}

.leg2 {
  position:absolute;
  background-color: #ffcb69;
  width:5px;
  height:40px;
  top:250px;
  left:-31px;
  transform: rotate(-35deg);
}

.leg2:before {
  content:"";
  position: absolute; 
  width:5px;
  height:40px;
  background-color: #ffcb69;
  transform: rotate(35deg);
  top:35px;
  left:-11px;
}

.leg2:after {
  content:"";
  position:absolute;
  background-color: #ffcb69;
  width:30px;
  height:10px;
  border-radius: 0 30px 0 0;
  top:70px;
  left:-22px;
}

.arm { 
  position: absolute; 
  background-color: #ffcb69;
  width:5px;
  height:35px;
  top:168px;
  left:-5px;
  transform: rotate(-45deg);
  z-index:-1;
}
.arm:before {
  content:"";
  position:absolute;
  background-color: #ffcb69;
  width:5px;
  height:35px;
  top:5px;
  left:11px;
  transform: rotate(45deg);
}

.arm:after {
  content:"";
  position: absolute;
  background-color: #ffcb69;
  width:15px;
  height:15px;
  transform: rotate(-45deg);
  top:2px;
  left:25px;
  border-radius: 0 30px 30px 30px;
}

.arm2 {
  position:absolute;
  background-color: #ffcb69;
  width:35px;
  height:5px;
  top:155px;
  left:-21px;
  z-index:-1;
  
}
.arm2:after {
  content:"";
  position: absolute;
  background-color: #ffcb69;
  width:15px;
  height:15px;
  transform: rotate(-45deg);
  top:-7px;
  left:40px;
  border-radius: 0 30px 30px 30px;
}

.hair {
  position:absolute;
  background-color: black;
  border-radius:50%;
  width:15px;
  height:15px;
  top:97px;
  left:-40px;
}
.hair:before {
  content:"";
  position:absolute;
  background-color: black;
  border-radius:50%;
  width:12px;
  height:12px;
  left:12px;
  top:6px;
}

and add the Waves:

.wave1, .wave2 {
  height: 300px;
  position: absolute;
  width: 1000px;
  z-index: 99;
  left: -400px;
  top:280px;
  opacity:0.6;
}

.wave1 {
  background: url('https://lenadesign.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/vawe3-1.png?w=1024') repeat-x;
  -webkit-animation: wave-animation1 8.7s infinite linear; 
  -moz-animation:    wave-animation1 8.7s infinite linear; 
  -o-animation:      wave-animation1 8.7s infinite linear; 
   animation:        wave-animation1 8.7s infinite linear; 
}

.wave2 {
  background: url('https://lenadesign.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/vawe1.png?w=1024') repeat-x;
  -webkit-animation: wave-animation1 6.3s infinite linear;
  -moz-animation:    wave-animation1 6.3s infinite linear; 
  -o-animation:      wave-animation1 6.3s infinite linear; 
  animation:         wave-animation1 6.3s infinite linear; 
}

Step3.

Add CSS Animation

To Surf:

@keyframes surf {
	0%, 20%, 50%, 80%, 100% {transform: translateY(0);}
	40% {transform: translateY(-30px) rotate(-7deg);}
	60% {transform: translateY(-15px) rotate(3deg);}
}

and for the Waves:

@-webkit-keyframes wave-animation1 {
  0%   { background-position: 0 0; }
  100% { background-position: 1601px 0; }
}
@-moz-keyframes wave-animation1 {
  0%   { background-position: 0 0; }
  100% { background-position: 1601px 0; }
}
@-o-keyframes wave-animation1 {
  0%   { background-position: 0 0; }
  100% { background-position: 1601px 0; }
}
@keyframes wave-animation1 {
  0%   { background-position: 0 0; }
  100% {background-position: 1601px 0;}
}

To see the live output of the animation go to lenastanley.com.

Enjoy coding!

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