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Animate blur filter with GSAP

I want to create some kind of zoom out animated effect using GSAP. What I'm trying to do is scaling an element from double its size to the normal size and apply a vanishing blur filter. The filter should start at blur(15px) and going down to blur(0).

I thought I could do it this way:

var el = $('img');

TweenLite.set(el, {
  'webkitFilter': 'blur(15px)',
  scale: 2
});
TweenLite.to(el, 0, {
  autoAlpha: 1,
  delay: 1.75,
  ease: Power2.easeIn
}); 
TweenLite.to(el, 2, {
  'webkitFilter': 'blur(0px)',
  scale: 1,
  delay: 1.7,
  ease: Power2.easeIn
});

What happens, instead, is that the blur(0) gets applied immediately.

Here's a simple pen showing the problem. What am I doing wrong?

Solution

  • Have you tried just updating to GSAP 1.18.4? Seems to work in your codepen. The CDN link to TweenMax 1.18.4 is https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/gsap/1.18.4/TweenMax.min.js