Developer builds CSS-only rotisserie animation with no SVG or images

A frontend developer created a pure CSS art piece depicting nine chickens rotating over a tandoor fire as part of DEV Community's Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition. The entire scene — birds, flames, plated dish, and cabinet — is built using only divs, gradients, and shadows, with no SVG or image files. Rather than rotating the bird shapes, the developer simulates rotation by scrolling a repeating char-pattern gradient vertically inside a fixed silhouette, achieving a seamless loop. Significant effort went into making each chicken readable, with overlapping body parts and strategically darkened drumstick ankles creating a three-dimensional appearance without any 3D CSS. The piece also animates a bird being removed from the spit and served on a plate, complete with onion rings, mint chutney, and coriander.