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 characters are Team 7 from Naruto — Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi — on the rock above Konoha, with the Hokage monument cut into the cliff behind them.
The card is cut into eleven layers, so the village keeps its own depth instead of sitting flat behind the group: the cherry trees at the front, the rooftops, the cliff and the sky all travel by different amounts as the card turns. A few of the depths are set by hand, which is what lets the group sit closer together than an even spread would put them.
The foil is set per layer. A plain sheen catches the figures at the front, a cosmos flake field runs through the middle distance, and a refractor sits on the far village and the sky. The sky’s is aimed at its own blue, so the light lands there and leaves the cliff and the clouds alone.
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 its characters 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.