Prototyping with real-world scenarios, even fictional ones, is one of the best ways to sharpen sk...Prototyping with real-world scenarios, even fictional ones, is one of the best ways to sharpen sk...
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Prototyping with real-world scenarios, even fictional ones, is one of the best ways to sharpen skills, so here's a "client-style" exercise: a website hero animation.
Keeping motion clean in hero sections is trickier than it looks. Every bit of movement needs to earn its place, or it just competes for attention instead of drawing people in.
This is a mockup solar flower hero, built and rendered in Blender using Eevee for fast real-time iteration. The animation itself is intentionally simple and the real focus here was on the rigging setup driving it.
NEOL develops CuGlide™, a copper-based lubricant technology that reduces wear between metal parts.
I recently designed their website. The hero was the hardest part: two gears in contact, with a thin copper film where they meet. That's why I built it in 3D instead of generating it: AI video can't give that level of control and precision.