Ok so this section basically ate my whole week lol. like 15 hours for ONE page?? and the crazy part is i wasn’t even doing design, i just kept trying random ideas until one felt right.
The whole thing is based on “The Creation of Adam” (that famous painting with the two hands almost touching). I thought it’d be sick to have two hands slide in from both sides while the hero closes, kinda like the split second before the fingers touch.i built the hands like 3 times ngl:

• first in 3d with three.js. looked cool but felt way too heavy and kinda too on the nose
• then i did an ascii version where the letters react to your mouse. way more my style but still not it
• and finally pixels, which is the one i kept. each hand is a grid of pixels that twinkle by themselves and light up when you hover, and the pixel sizes give it this little depth thing.
  This one just clickedalso threw in two lines of giant scrolling text with gsap, hellos on top and a lil manifesto on the bottom, they slide in when the shutter covers the hero.
  The one thing killing me rn is the colors. they’re just kinda mid honestly. so i think i’m gonna do some research, and repaint the whole site properly.