Exits

Blur Out Animation

Defocuses into nothing.

Motion that ships
Edit this in the studio

Opens with this animation loaded. Nothing is uploaded — the scene travels in the link.

animation.css
.blur-out {
  transform: translate3d(90px, 138px, 0);
  width: 300px;
  height: 44px;
  background: #00000000;
  color: #e7e9ee;
  font-size: 32px;
  font-weight: 700;
  animation: blur-out-anim 700ms linear 0ms infinite both;
  will-change: transform, opacity;
}

@keyframes blur-out-anim {
  0% {
    filter: none;
    opacity: 1;
    animation-timing-function: ease-in;
  }
  100% {
    filter: blur(16px);
    opacity: 0;
  }
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .blur-out {
    animation: none;
    transition: none;
  }
}

Why it is built this way

Useful when something is being replaced rather than removed — the outgoing content going soft while the new content sharpens reads as a swap. Two of these running at once is expensive, so keep the areas small.

What it animates

2 properties across 2 CSS declarations. The bar shows when each one is moving.

Blur
filter
0 16
2 stopscompositor
Opacity
opacity
1 0
2 stopscompositor

What it costs to run

Filter and opacity are handled by the compositor: no layout, no repaint, and the work can run off the main thread. This is the cheap end of CSS animation, which is why it stays smooth on a slow phone where other properties will not.

It runs for 0.70s across 4 keyframe stops, with every property moving over the same window.

One curve throughout: Ease In on a text. Keeping a single easing across every property is what makes a multi-property animation read as one movement rather than several things happening at once.

Accessibility

Nothing here hides content — filter and opacity move over 0.70s and the element is visible throughout. The exported prefers-reduced-motion guard still silences it, which matters most for the looping ones: motion that never stops is the kind that makes people feel unwell.

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