Verdana
Nature retreat booking platform
An immersive nature-retreat booking experience with a WebGL water-ripple shader, fog parallax, scroll-scrubbed video and a sound-driven loading screen.
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The Goal
Make booking a retreat feel as calm and immersive as the stay itself.
The Approach
Wrote a WebGL water-ripple shader and a touch bridge so it works on phones.
Combined fog parallax, scroll-scrubbed video and CSS parallax overlays.
Built a loading screen with a cloud-formation animation and Web Audio sound.
The Result
A polished, atmospheric booking site live on Vercel.
Challenge
Layering many heavy effects (shader ripples, video scrubbing, parallax, audio) into one cohesive experience, and making the water-ripple respond properly to touch on mobile.
Outcome
A complete, cohesive experience with its own design system (forest green and gold, Cormorant Garamond + Jost), a cloud-formation loader and a mobile touch bridge for the ripple effect.