CodeRecorded November 4, 20261 model

Bird Breakdance Animation

One HTML page: a bird breakdancing. The brief is deliberately open — the move set, the art direction and the controls are all the model's to choose — so what it measures is taste and animation craft rather than compliance with a spec.

The prompt every model got

You make short animated pieces for the web.

Build me a single HTML page: a bird, breakdancing.

The build

It animates on load and keeps going.
The dancing should read as breaking — weight, timing, recovery between moves. Not a looping wiggle.
The art is yours. Canvas, SVG, CSS, WebGL, pixels, line art, whatever suits the bird you have in mind. A page that looks like nobody else's counts for more here than a clean version of the obvious one.
Give me something to do. Controls of your choosing; what they change is part of what is being judged.

House rules

One file. Everything inline — no CDN, no external stylesheet, font, script or image. data: URIs are fine.
No libraries.
No network at runtime.
No localStorage, sessionStorage, cookies or indexedDB — sandboxed frame, they throw.
Return the file as exactly one fenced html block.

Answer in exactly these sections

The bird

Two sentences: what the bird is, and the look you went for.

The page

The single fenced html block.

The notes

Three bullets.

The move set, and how you got the timing to feel like weight rather than interpolation.
What your controls change.
The part you would fix with more time.

Answers

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