Animating Many Things on a Canvas

In the Creating a Simple HTML5 Canvas Animation tutorial (say that five times fast!), you learned all about drawing and animating something using the HTML canvas element. More specifically, you learned all about how to draw and animate a single element. Now, there is nothing wrong with that. Not every animation needs to have a lot going on, but you are definitely missing out on the whole canvas experience by not going a little crazy and animating a lot of things.

Take the following animation as an example: