Practical Dept.

The animated website kit

Five viral design and motion skills, set up to build your own animated website. €49 at launch.

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What you’ll build

A fast, animated personal or product site: a real layout instead of an AI template, motion that feels designed, and a short launch video rendered from code.

What you get

  • All five skills, unchanged, with licenses and credits
  • One install command
  • The recipe, step by step
  • A finished example site to compare against
  • Updates when the skills change

One prompt, one file.

Built with Claude Code from the prompt below, then fitted to this page: a city block that builds itself, then loops. Copy the prompt, swap the parts in brackets for your own subject, and paste it into Claude Code.

Prompt · 3D animation
Build a single-file web page (HTML, CSS and JS, no build step) that plays a looping 3D animation of [a busy corner coffee shop on a city block].

Tech: Three.js [0.186.1] from a CDN through an import map, with its addons. RoundedBoxGeometry for every block, MeshStandardMaterial, one sun with soft shadows plus a hemisphere light, and an ambient occlusion pass (GTAO) through EffectComposer, finished by OutputPass with neutral tone mapping so brand colours stay true. Reuse one geometry per shape and one material per colour, and use a seeded random generator so every load looks the same.

World: a floating diorama on one rounded slab, with a soft shadow beneath it. Pack it with recognisable props built only from simple shapes: [buildings with window grids, trees, cars, delivery scooters, people, street lamps]. Lots of small moving parts, each with a reason to move.

Motion: on load the world builds itself in about a second, pieces rising and popping into place with a little overshoot, from the centre outwards. That plays once. After it, everything runs on a seamless [10]-second loop: [customers queue and step inside, scooters drive off and come back, cars loop the block]. Drive every motion from the loop time and give each one a whole number of cycles per loop, so the last frame matches the first. Camera: a slow eased sway around the slab with a gentle push-in, on the same loop.

Style: clean isometric product render with a narrow field of view (about 22°), looking down about 35°. Off-white ground [#F2F3F5], [white and pale grey models with ink #0B0B0C details], and one accent colour, [ultramarine #1E3BFF], only on the things that matter. No textures, no 3D text.

Overlay: a frosted-glass card titled "[Daily Grind · Live Sales]" with three stats that tick up as customers go in: [orders, coffees, revenue].

Frame: [fill a 1080×1920 frame], no scrollbars, autoplay on load. Cap the pixel ratio at 2, pause when the tab is hidden, and with reduced motion show the finished scene standing still. Expose window.renderAt(seconds) to draw one exact frame, so the loop can be recorded as video.

The skills are free. The kit is the part that works.

  • Set up together

    Five skills that normally fight over the same files, configured to cooperate.

  • One command

    One install puts every skill, setting and file where Claude Code expects it.

  • The recipe

    Step by step: what to type, what each skill does, where it goes wrong.

  • A finished example

    A real animated site built with the kit, so you can see the end before you start.

Going into the kit

Planned contents. The kit is being built now.

Every skill keeps its license and its author’s name, with a link to the original. You pay for the setup and the recipe, never for someone else’s work.

Questions

Why pay if the skills are free?

You don’t pay for the skills. You pay to skip the setup: making five skills cooperate, the one-command install, the recipe and the finished example. The skills stay free on GitHub.

Is it fair to the skill authors?

Every kit ships each skill unchanged, with its license and copyright notice, credits the author and links the original. We only package skills whose licenses allow it.

Are these skills safe to install?

Skills marked "Scanned" went through two open-source security scanners. A flag means something worth a human look, like running commands, not proof of harm. Scanners miss things, so read a skill before you install it.

When does the kit ship?

It’s being built now. Join the waitlist and you’ll get it at the launch price the day it’s out.

Who runs Practical Dept?

Luka. The company behind it is Audacity DOO in Belgrade, Serbia.

Get the kit first.

One email when it launches at €49, plus the weekly radar.