Animated Hero with Three.js — Custom Scene Build
Animated hero section built from scratch in Three.js — custom geometry, custom shaders, custom interaction, fits your brand exactly.
Animated hero with Three.js means a fully custom WebGL scene as the top of the fold — custom geometry, materials, and interactions designed for your brand. Compared to off-the-shelf hero sections (Spline embeds, Themeforest 3D widgets): more upfront work, but the result fits your brand exactly and scales as you grow. Pricing \$2,000-\$3,500 for custom hero scenes. Common patterns I build: floating brand logo with custom shader material, particle field reactive to scroll/cursor, abstract geometry representing the product (circuit board for tech, mesh sphere for SaaS, etc.).
Technical foundation
Stack: Three.js v0.170 with GSAP for animation timeline, Lenis for smooth scroll, Vite for build, GLSL for custom shaders when needed. Hosting on a Hetzner / DigitalOcean equivalent — fast first byte, HTTP/2, Brotli compression, CDN for static assets. Lighthouse mobile 85+ guaranteed.
Where it fits
This service is the right call when the brand needs a visual moment that ranks beyond the average competitor — agencies pitching new business, premium e-commerce, portfolios that need to look ahead-of-curve. If you need a basic content site or blog, a static-site generator without 3D is more economical and ranks just as well for simple keyword targets.
Timeline
Discovery week 1, design week 1-2, development weeks 2-5, integration and QA week 5-6. Total: 4-6 weeks for the standard scope. Larger scope (configurator, multi-scene scrollytelling) extends to 8-12 weeks. I send weekly progress in writing — you always know where the project stands.
Concrete deliverable
What you receive at handover: a working Animated Hero with Three.js — Custom Scene Build on production hosting, all source files committed to your GitHub repo, og-images for social sharing, basic schema.org markup, sitemap entry, and a 5-min walkthrough video. The site is yours from day one — I never hold code hostage.
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