> Julian (the author) is a genius.

With proof!

I have rarely been so impressed with a web tech.

Yes - exactly. If they were that smooth and looked that good, I'd like more of them. So creative.

Yeah, this is the one place where doing it like this is 100% appropriate.

Hey I'm the author of the lib, I'm thinking about making a course on how to re-create the landing page, would that be something you're interested in?

There is a gh-pages branch, but it is generated from a private repo: https://github.com/juliangarnier/anime/tree/gh-pages

Part of the smoothness here is that scrolling the text is 1:1 once you get down to the sections with colored headers. It demonstrates that it's possible to make a page look fancy like that without "breaking" your intuition of what scrolling "should be."

JS animations obviously don't take the place of video/audio media that you'd play/scrub through.

False. Let the web be fun again

For most websites, sure. For this website? It makes sense, it's a great demo for the product.

It's not so much about playing/slowing/speeding up an animation or video. It's about moving forward and backward through an "experience," as much as I dislike the overuse of that word. I'd suggest it's a natural evolution of the scroll behavior.

Animation isn't really "playing media".

So what would you suggest to use to move the animation forward?