About this demo
I work with AI generative art, and I have been exploring how it mixes with other technologies. This parallax effect demonstration came out of that.
The artwork is cut into layers and stacked inside a card. Tilting the card slides each layer by an amount set by its depth, which is what reads as parallax, and a foil pass adds the reflections that move across the surface.
About the artwork
The image is drawn in an LCD render style, combined with card effects — holo reflections that shift across the surface as the card moves.
The characters are the Akatsuki, from Naruto. I watched the series recently and liked it very much, so it was what I reached for when I wanted something to build this demonstration on.
Where this is going
I want to keep exploring this. The plan is to grow this site into an augmented version of my work, because there are things about a piece that social media still cannot represent. A feed flattens everything into one still frame, at one size, held at one angle. A page can hand the piece back its depth, its motion and its reflections, and let you move it around yourself.
More experiments will land here as I make them.
Viewing it
On a phone the card follows the accelerometer, so tilting the handset tilts the artwork; iOS asks permission before a web page may read motion, which is what the button above is for. Dragging the card works anywhere, and on a desktop it follows the pointer. Auto hands the card back its own motion.
More work in the gallery, and writing in the journal.
Fan work. Naruto and the Akatsuki were created by Masashi Kishimoto and are published by Shueisha; I hold no rights to them and intend no copyright infringement. Rights holders may write to me and this comes down.