AURORA
A site for a fictional electronic music festival above the Arctic Circle. Northern lights in WebGL, kinetic type, a schedule that scrolls sideways.
- What
- Flagship concept
- Where
- A fictional place
- Year
- 2026
- Stack
- Astro, WebGL, GSAP, Lenis
The brief
Show what the studio can do when a site isn’t limited by a client’s business. The first screen has to stop people, and the whole page has to convince them to buy a ticket to a festival that doesn’t exist. We made up everything in AURORA: the name, the artists, the venue, the schedule and the prices.
What we did
- Northern lights in WebGL. Our own shader, no libraries: three curtains of fractal noise, rays and stars. The lights lean slightly towards the cursor. The sky renders at reduced resolution, so phones don’t heat up.
- Kinetic type. The name assembles letter by letter and opens up; the manifesto lights up word by word as you read it.
- A sideways schedule. On a wide screen the three nights slide sideways while the page scrolls down. On a phone it’s a strip you swipe with a finger.
- Magnetic ticket buttons. The “Buy” button says honestly that the festival is fictional and offers the same kind of site for a real event.
- A fallback. Without WebGL, or with reduced motion turned on, a still frame from the same shader replaces the live sky and all the text shows at once.
How it’s built
Astro, GSAP with ScrollTrigger and SplitText, Lenis smooth scrolling, plain WebGL 1. Fonts are served from our own domain. The preview video was recorded from the same shader frame by frame: its time loops, so the eight seconds repeat without a seam. The concept itself is in Russian.