Toon Titles: The Buzzin’ Bear

April 3rd, 2025

I had some spare time today between client work and meetings, so I added another Toon Title to my collection. This one’s based on The Buzzin’ Bear, a Yogi Bear cartoon from December 1958.

The Buzzin’ Bear uses SVG feGaussianBlur filters and animateTransform with rotate, scale, and translate.

See the Pen The Buzzin’ Bear SVG animation by Andy Clarke (@malarkey) on CodePen.

Check out Toon Titles

Or see the source code on Github.

I’m not an animator by trade, and I’m relatively new to CSS and SMIL animations, so if you fancy forking these Toon Titles and making new versions, I’d love to see them.

Written by Andy Clarke who tagged this with animation, SMIL, svg

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