Scroll Animations

Scroll-linked motion — a cinematic 3D fly-through, pinned media sections, rising image cards, parallax layers, viewport reveals and a pinned horizontal section.

6 demos · hover a stage to interact · press Replay to re-run

Each stage owns its own scroll container, so the demos work inline without hijacking the page.

Cinematic tunnel

Scroll flies the camera down a corridor of screens. Scroll velocity — not position — drives the motion blur, so hard scrubbing smears the corridor while the titles stay sharp.

  • CSS 3D
  • preserve-3d
  • useVelocity
  • perspective
DARWIN

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Sticky media sections

A pinned clip column beside text that advances with the scrollbar. Clips push each other out vertically while the heading decodes into place.

  • sticky
  • useMotionValueEvent
  • push swap
  • scramble
Darwin — categories

Hero sections

Above-the-fold openers that set the tone before a single word is read — cursor spotlights, drifting gradient meshes and curtain reveals.

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Rising image cards

A row climbing out of the bottom edge, each card at its own rate so the fan holds at every scroll position. The artwork counter-drifts inside its mask.

  • useScroll
  • per-card rate
  • mask parallax
Selected work — scroll ↓

Parallax layers

One scrollYProgress mapped to three different travel distances.

  • useScroll
  • useTransform
  • container

Parallax

Reveal on view

Rows fade, rise and unblur as they cross the container's viewport edge.

  • whileInView
  • viewport.root
  • margin

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01

Discovery

Audit, interviews, a shared vocabulary.

02

Direction

Two routes, one chosen, the other archived.

03

Design

Components before pages, always.

04

Build

Shipped behind a flag, measured, widened.

05

Care

The part everyone forgets to budget for.

Pinned horizontal scroll

Vertical scroll inside the stage is remapped to horizontal travel.

  • sticky
  • useScroll
  • x transform
01 / 05Brief
02 / 05Sketch
03 / 05Prototype
04 / 05Polish
05 / 05Ship