Pure CSS animated 3D Super Mario Icon

After my latest CSS3 experiment without images (Internet Explorer Pure CSS Logo), a friend suggested to create an animated 3D Super Mario Icon based on the 3D Retro Mario GIF image by Cezkid.

Well, this is the result of two weeks of work – an animated 3D Super Mario Icon built completely in CSS3 without images.

Pure CSS animated 3D Super Mario
A still from Safari 5 with perspective and grids. Hover over the live demo to see this.

Demo

Demo: Pure CSS animated 3D Super Mario Icon
Source: Git Repository
Best viewed with Safari 5 & Chrome 9.

Chrome prior Version 9 renders in 2D only due to an older Webkit engine.
Opera 10.6, Firefox 3.6 and IE9 are not supported.

Pure CSS animated 3D Super Mario Icon

Background

Please note that the source code is still a mess. You better not have a look at it ;-)

It’s based on top of my CSS 4D Framework I created therefor and will be released in the next few weeks (when it’s out of alpha).

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Comments

37 responses to “Pure CSS animated 3D Super Mario Icon”

  1. Manmohanjit Singh Avatar
    Manmohanjit Singh

    Nice job! The animation looks good in Safari.

  2. Stoimen Avatar
    Stoimen

    I stopped breathing for a while when I saw it. This is awesome. Keep the good work!

  3. Marco Avatar
    Marco

    Renders on my iPad.

  4. James Macfie Avatar
    James Macfie

    That’s very cool. I wonder if when browsers start supporting this more if this will become the new animated gifs…

    1. Andreas Jacob Avatar
      Andreas Jacob

      Thanks! Hopefully it’s neither a flash nor an animated GIF replacement ;-)

  5. Dennis K. Avatar
    Dennis K.

    Oh very nice post! It renders finely on my iPad, too ;)

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  7. Sascha Avatar
    Sascha

    great job
    i like it!!

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