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Pattern 1 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebglshadereffect
Aurora curtains
Vertical light curtains — northern-lights drape, not blobs.
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Pattern 2 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebglshadereffect
Flame — inferno
A full-bleed wall of rising fire, drawn from noise alone.
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Pattern 3 of 81.boldanimatedwebglshadereffect
Flame — ember bed
A low bed of glowing coals along the bottom edge, with short licks of flame.
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Pattern 4 of 81.subtleanimatedwebglshadereffect
Flame — candle
A single soft teardrop flame that sways and breathes.
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Flame — rising sparks
Ember sparks drifting upward through the dark, no flame body.
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Pattern 6 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebgl3dthree-js
Fresnel distorted sphere
Vertex-displaced icosphere with a glowing fresnel rim.
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Pattern 7 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebgl3dthree-js
Glass refraction orb
Dark glass sphere with internal glow and a bright fresnel edge.
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Pattern 8 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebgl3dthree-js
Metal torus knot
Lit metallic knot — warm/lime/blue three-point rig, slow tumble.
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Pattern 9 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebgl3dthree-js
Noise terrain flyover
Displaced wireframe mesh scrolling toward camera — synth landscape.
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Pattern 10 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebgl3dthree-js
Particle flow swarm
Thousands of points drifting through a noise flow-field, additively lit.
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Pattern 11 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebgl3dthree-js
Instanced wave grid
900 lit cubes rippling on a radial sine — a 3D dot-matrix done right.
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Pattern 12 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebgl3dthree-js
Fibre bundle
Equal-length strands fan in from off-frame, unwrap, rewrap; flat cut ends glow on one plane.
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Pattern 13 of 81.boldanimatedwebgl3dthree-js
Fibre bundle — horizontal fan
A level bundle that breathes open and closed, flat glowing ends.
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Pattern 14 of 81.boldanimatedwebgl3dthree-js
Fibre bundle — diagonal sway
A steep diagonal bundle with rounded tips that sways as one.
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Pattern 15 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebgl3dthree-js
Fibre bundle — rising
A near-vertical bundle rising from below, tapered tips, wrap and unwrap.
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Pattern 16 of 81.boldanimatedwebgl3dthree-js
Fibre bundle — dropping
A bundle hanging from the top edge, tapered tips, swaying.
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Pattern 17 of 81.subtleanimatedwebgl3dthree-js
Fibre bundle — held fan
A still, open fan from the corner. No motion, for reduced-motion-first pages.
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Pattern 18 of 81.boldherosignageslideshowken-burns
Signage Slideshow
Full-screen photos with a slow Ken Burns drift, cross-dissolves, a duotone brand tint and rotating messages.
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Pattern 19 of 81.boldherosignageslideshowken-burns
Signage Slideshow — People
Clips of people at work, drifting and dissolving under a brand tint.
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Pattern 20 of 81.boldherosignageslideshowken-burns
Signage Slideshow — Offices
Clips of workspaces, from a morning floor to a lamp-lit loft.
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Pattern 21 of 81.boldherosignageslideshowken-burns
Signage Slideshow — Buildings
Clips of glass lobbies and a boardroom over the city.
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Pattern 22 of 81.boldherosignageslideshowken-burns
Signage Slideshow — Landscapes
Clips of lakes, hills, dunes and canyons, slow and calm.
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Pattern 23 of 81.boldherosignageslideshowken-burns
Signage Slideshow — Mixed
A mixed playlist: the sea, people, a lobby, an office, coffee and flowers.
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Pattern 24 of 81.boldanimatedcanvasbackgroundgenerative
Chain reaction
Eight linked nodes firing left to right, each swelling as the pulse reaches it.
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Pattern 25 of 81.boldanimatedcanvasgenerativecounter
Counter explosion
A number counting to its target, then bursting, then resetting and doing it again.
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Pattern 26 of 81.subtleanimatedcanvasbackgroundgenerative
Data stream
Rows of hex and binary scrolling in alternating directions behind the content.
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Pattern 27 of 81.subtleanimatedcanvasbackgroundgenerative
Galaxy swirl
Eight hundred points on three logarithmic arms, turning as one and squashed to an ellipse.
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Pattern 28 of 81.boldanimatedcanvasbackgroundgenerative
Knowledge graph
Twenty-eight labelled nodes settling under repulsion, springs and a pull to centre.
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Pattern 29 of 81.subtleanimatedcanvasbackgroundgenerative
Magnetic field lines
Sixty tracers crossing the frame on sine paths, each dragging an eighteen-point tail.
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Pattern 30 of 81.subtleanimatedcanvasbackgroundgenerative
Neural net pulse
A four-layer network with signals travelling edge by edge from input to output.
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Pattern 31 of 81.subtleanimatedcanvasbackgroundgenerative
Orbit rings
Five concentric rings carrying three to sixteen bodies, alternating direction.
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Pattern 32 of 81.boldanimatedcanvasgenerativecelebration
Particle burst
Ninety particles thrown from the centre every two and a half seconds, under gravity and drag.
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Pattern 33 of 81.boldanimatedcanvasbackgroundgenerative
Shockwave rings
Rings that break from the centre every six-tenths of a second and fade as they widen.
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Pattern 34 of 81.subtleanimatedcanvasbackgroundgenerative
Starfield drift
Stars falling toward the viewer on a perspective divide, recycled at the far plane.
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Pattern 35 of 81.boldanimatedtexttypographyentrance
Letter explode
Letters thrown to random positions and rotations, then flying home 35ms apart.
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Pattern 36 of 81.boldanimatedcanvasbackgroundgenerative
Word cascade
Words dropped on a cadence, falling under gravity and stacking where they land.
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Pattern 37 of 81.subtleanimatedcss-onlyattentioncta
Attention pulse
A ring that expands out of one element and fades, twice every four seconds.
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Pattern 38 of 81.boldinteractivepressbuttonfeedback
Like burst
Fourteen particles thrown from a heart on the like, and nothing on the un-like.
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Pattern 39 of 81.boldanimatedcss-onlybordercard
Border beam
A comet with a bright head and a faint tail running the border every three seconds.
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Pattern 40 of 81.subtleanimatedcss-onlybordercard
Shine border
A light travelling once around a card's border every four seconds.
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Pattern 41 of 81.subtlehovercss-onlybuttoncta
Shimmer button
A band of light crossing a CTA every 2.6 seconds, and faster while hovered.
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Pattern 42 of 81.subtleinteractivepressbuttonfeedback
Ripple on press
A circle blooming from the exact point of contact and fading as it grows.
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Pattern 43 of 81.subtleanimatedtextdecodetypography
Text scramble
A line resolving out of random glyphs, each character settling on its own frame.
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Pattern 44 of 81.subtlehovercss-onlycardlift
Card lift on hover
A card that rises six pixels on hover and settles two down on press.
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Pattern 45 of 81.subtleloadingcss-onlyskeletonshimmer
Loading shimmer
Skeleton blocks with a highlight sweeping across them every 1.4 seconds.
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Pattern 46 of 81.subtleanimatedeffectbackgroundambient
Floating orbs
Three drifting blurred orbs — the Socialaize look.
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Pattern 47 of 81.subtleanimatedeffectbackgroundgradient
Animated gradient mesh
Soft, slow-drifting radial gradients — pure CSS.
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Pattern 48 of 81.subtleanimatedtexttickerinfinite
Marquee text band
Infinite scrolling text band, pure CSS.
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Pattern 49 of 81.boldanimatedtextheroreveal
Kinetic typography
Word-by-word reveal that lands like a punchline.
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Pattern 50 of 81.boldanimatedinteractiveeffectcursor
Spotlight cursor
A soft glow follows the cursor across the section.
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Pattern 51 of 81.boldanimatedscrolleffecthero
Parallax layered hero
Background, grid, and content scroll at different rates.
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Pattern 52 of 81.awwwardsanimatedscrolllayoutstory
Sticky pin sections
Full-viewport sections, scrubbed transitions.
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Pattern 53 of 81.awwwardsanimatedinteractivectahover
Magnetic CTA
Button drifts toward the cursor.
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Pattern 54 of 81.subtleanimatedlayoutgridbento
Bento grid
Asymmetric grid with hover-lift cards.
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Pattern 55 of 81.boldanimatedscrolltextstats
Count-up stats
Numbers animate from 0 to target on scroll into view.
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Pattern 56 of 81.subtleanimatedscrolluinavigation
Scroll progress bar
A thin accent-colored bar at the top tracks how far you've scrolled.
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Pattern 57 of 81.boldanimatedtextherovanilla-js
Typewriter effect
Text types itself out, deletes, types the next phrase.
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Pattern 58 of 81.subtleeffectuicardfrosted
Glass morphism
Frosted glass card over a colorful background.
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Pattern 59 of 81.subtleanimatedinteractiveuiaccordion
FAQ accordion
Smooth-expanding accordion with rotating + icon.
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Pattern 60 of 81.boldanimatedinteractive3dcard
Hover-tilt cards
Cards tilt in 3D toward the cursor with a glow spotlight.
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Pattern 61 of 81.subtleanimatedsvgvectoricon
Animated SVG icons
Line-drawing SVG icons that draw themselves on mount.
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Pattern 62 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebgleffectbackground
Shader gradient
Flowing GPU-shader color field — nebula-like ambient depth.
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Pattern 63 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebgleffectinteractive
Fluid cursor
Cursor-following fluid ink trails with HSL color drift.
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Pattern 64 of 81.boldanimatedwebgleffectbackground
Particle field
200 particles with connecting lines and cursor attraction.
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Pattern 65 of 81.subtleanimatedwebgleffectbackground
Noise field
Animated topographic contour lines using procedural noise.
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Pattern 66 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebgleffectbackground
Aurora hero
Northern-lights WebGL shader with starfield. Hero-ready.
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Pattern 67 of 81.boldanimatedwebgl3dbackground
Wave grid
Perspective wave-grid receding to vanishing point.
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Pattern 68 of 81.boldanimatedeffecttextglitch
Glitch transition
RGB-split glitch bursts on a bold headline.
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Pattern 69 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebgl3deffect
Mesh distortion
Wireframe sphere that ripples and rotates. Scroll-reactive.
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Pattern 70 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebgl3dthree-js
Three.js stack
12 glassy 3D cards drifting with mouse-following camera.
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Pattern 71 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebglshadereffect
Domain-warped flow
FBM noise warped through itself — a genuinely liquid field, not stacked gradients.
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Pattern 72 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebglshadereffect
Animated mesh gradient
Stripe/Linear-style four-point mesh blend, perpetually drifting.
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Pattern 73 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebglshadereffect
Iridescent oil-slick
Thin-film interference via cosine palette — shifting petrol sheen.
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Pattern 74 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebglshadereffect
Voronoi crystal
Animated cellular tessellation with glowing seed points.
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Pattern 75 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebglshadereffect
Caustics
Refracted underwater light — bright filaments over deep blue.
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Pattern 76 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebglshadereffect
Liquid chrome
Fake-normal lit metal flowing — molten, reflective.
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Pattern 77 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebglshadereffect
Electric plasma
Interfering waves pinched into bright electric filaments.
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Pattern 78 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebglshadereffect
Metaball field
SDF energy field — soft glowing blobs merging and parting.
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Pattern 79 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebglshadereffect
Noise tunnel
Polar warp scrolling inward — an endless soft tunnel.
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Pattern 80 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebglshadereffect
Halftone drift
Editorial dot-screen over a moving gradient — print-grade texture.
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Pattern 81 of 81.awwwardsanimatedwebglshadereffect
Topographic lines
Contour map of flowing noise — designer-grade line-work.
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