Creative Development

Ambitious ideas,
running at 60 fps

We build WebGL scenes, shaders and motion in code for brands and products that need more than a template. Every piece is designed to look striking and engineered to stay smooth on an ordinary phone.

05 / 07Creative Development

Beyond the template

What's possible, and how

A modern browser can render real-time 3D, run custom shaders on the graphics card and choreograph a whole page to the scroll. That makes room for products people can turn in their hands, stories that unfold as they read and interfaces that answer every touch.

We treat it as engineering, not decoration. Each piece starts from one clear idea, gets a frame budget before it gets a look, and ships with a plan for slow devices, browsers without WebGL and people who prefer less motion. The effect is the easy part. Keeping it smooth, light and accessible is the work.

What we build

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01three.js · WebGL

Real-time 3D

Scenes that render live in the browser, from a single hero object to a whole explorable space.

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02GSAP · easing

Motion in code

Timing and easing written as code, so every move is exact, repeatable and easy to tune.

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03ScrollTrigger

Scroll-driven stories

Pages that unfold as you read, with the scroll position as the playhead.

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04Configurators

Product showcases

Products people can turn, open and restyle in the browser before they decide.

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05Shaders · noise

Generative visuals

One function drawing every cell, so patterns respond to input and never quite repeat.

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06Interaction

Micro-interactions

Small, physical responses to hover, press and drag that make an interface feel made.

Anatomy of a live scene

One object,
six layers of code

Every frame of a 3D scene is built the same way: points, faces, a shader that moves them, normals, light and a final pass. Here is each layer on its own, live. Drag to turn it, move over it to press the surface.

The frame budget

Sixteen
milliseconds

At 60 frames a second, everything for a frame has to be done in 16.7 ms: scripts, layout, painting and the GPU. Miss it by one millisecond and the frame is shown twice, which is what a stutter is. So we design against the budget from day one.

Simulated · 60 Hz
Every frame lands before the next screen refresh. Motion is even.
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  1. 01Frame budgetEach effect is planned against 16.7 ms a frame, less on faster screens.
  2. 02Adaptive qualityWhen frames run long, resolution and detail step down on their own.
  3. 03Paused off screenNothing renders while it is out of view or in a background tab.
  4. 04FallbacksWithout WebGL you get a designed still frame, never a blank box.
  5. 05Reduced motionIf your system asks for less motion, you get the finished frame.
  6. 06Assets on demandHeavy code, models and textures load as you get close, not on first paint.
Every visual on this page follows these rules.

How a project runs

Stages
  1. 01ConceptWe agree on the one idea the experience has to get across.
  2. 02ReferencesMotion, light and material references settled before any code.
  3. 03PrototypeA rough interactive sketch proves the idea in a real browser.
  4. 04BudgetTargets for frame time, download size and the devices we support.
  5. 05Look developmentShaders, lighting and palette tuned until every still looks right.
  6. 06Motion designTiming and easing choreographed in code, beat by beat.
  1. 07Asset pipelineModels, textures and fonts compressed and loaded only when needed.
  2. 08IntegrationWired into your site, product or CMS with clean, documented code.
  3. 09FallbacksStill versions for reduced motion and devices without WebGL.
  4. 10Device testingProfiled on real phones and laptops, tuned until it holds its frame rate.
  5. 11Launch and careShipped, watched in the wild and adjusted where it needs it.
Tools we use
  • three.jsreal-time 3D
  • GLSLcustom shaders
  • GSAPtimelines and scroll
  • WebGL 2the GPU in the browser
  • Canvas and SVGlighter 2D motion
  • Blender and glTFmodels and scenes
  • Draco and KTX2compressed assets
  • Chrome DevToolsframe-by-frame profiling
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