- 2023
- Front-End Engineer
- Phantom Labs (studio)
Phantom Labs
Overview
A Studio Site Built Without Library Defaults
Built for Phantom Labs in 2023. The site shipped, lived for about six months, then the studio moved on from it. Including it here because it's still the best thing I've made.
- Three.js
- GLSL
- Custom Shaders
- WebGL
- Motion Systems
- Interaction Design
The Brief
A studio site that had to look like the work
Phantom Labs wanted a studio site that looked like the work, not a wrapper around it. The brief was open: build it however you want. So I did — every shader, every transition written from scratch, no drei drop-ins, no off-the-shelf scroll lib.
And then the studio moved on
The site shipped and lived for about six months before the studio moved in a different direction. The work is still mine.
Hand-Authored Primitives
The build
Hand-authored, top to bottom
No drei materials. No bolted-on post-processing. No scroll lib carrying the load. I wrote every shader to the comps and tuned every interaction by hand. That's why the whole thing reads as one piece — everything was made for the part next to it.
The motion
Every transition tuned by hand. No library shortcuts.
In motion
In stills
Six months live, still mine
Still my best build
Site shipped, lived for about six months, then the studio moved on. Custom shaders, motion by hand, no library defaults — everything I've made since is downstream of this one.
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