wintertidings.com / Developed at Staak
Tools & Skills:
Vue.js, Node.js, Express, WebGL / three.js, GSAP
About the project:
Winter Tidings was our Christmas gift to the world. Some studios do Christmas cards, we made an emotive message sending service gift-wrapped with storytelling, modelling and some pretty sweet code.
Winter Tidings was an introductory into the world of WebGL. A project released around Christmas time, it is a way to share messages with friends and family.
Developed in WebGL, Winter Tidings combines an illustrative-style intro through to an immersive, stunning 3D environment for the main experience.
The core of Winter Tidings is to send a message to a loved one at Christmas. The message was ‘attached to a snowflake’ — and as in nature, no two were the same. Each was a bespoke digital rendering to the user.
After users had written their message it was rendered in the 3D world. A prompt would guide our visitors into gesturing with their device, triggering the snowflake to shatter into pieces. The shattered pieces would reform when received by the recipient.
Winter Tidings.