Today, a client inquired about doing something like this and I’ve never felt my eyebrows and lids peel so far back. Needless to say it took less than a second to know that this was way out of my wheelhouse.
That said, I found my new goal post (my net is just a multifaceted prism of goal posts now): Immersive Web Experiences. Reading about how Abeto and Bureaux collaborated on this project via Awwwards case study made me feel like there was so much more to learn when it comes to making cool shit on the web. Of course three.js was involved. Of course Blender was used.
I also found this reddit threadof someone asking about how they can recreate this. I also asked Hex, one of the only developers I know that might be in this technical realm, and it seems the consensus is: yes, this is master level capital A Art that requires a lot of time, effort and hands. Let us bask.
This also kinda just hit me like a brick:
3-D creative development is a niche specialization in frontend. You will never need it for a job. if you are just trying to roadmap yourself as quickly as possible to a job then don’t worry about any of this. This is not even a particularly high-paying or in demand niche by any means. (not that you can’t do very well for yourself here, but it’s not the right move if you are salary maxing.)
You should pursue this if you would be passionate about it.
Ah, ok. so it is Art.
Hex also asked about shelf life and it got me wondering about how fleeting some of these experiences might be if they were just microsites and not a main lander. Makes you wonder why you’d put all that work into something and people just forget about it after 3 months. This is probably a tangent.
This might just be my art! I’d love to do something like this one day. But I guess add that to my long list of things I wanna do.
In the mean time, they had also referenced Yuri Artiukhif I’m interested in learning more about this. Just leaving it here for when I decide to pursue these things.