Third Aesthetic
A design-led visualisation practice in Sydney, making CGI, animation and virtual tours for Australian developers and architects. We built their site in 2021 and still look after it — their team has published more than 1,600 content updates since.
- Client
- Third Aesthetic · Sydney
- Role
- Development, care
- Years
- 2021 —
- Stack
- Statamic 5, Laravel 11, Alpine, Barba.js
- Media
- Vimeo, imgix
Brief
A studio whose work is images needs a site that gets out of the way. The renders have to load fast, look sharp and move.
And the studio has to publish new projects on its own, without waiting for a developer.
What we built
Showreel first
The homepage is the showreel, full screen, with nothing competing for attention.
Work index
A plain numbered list of projects, split into CGI and animation. Hover a name and its render appears.
Project pages
Horizontal galleries of full-bleed renders, an info drawer, and a straight path to the next project.
Page transitions
Barba.js swaps pages without a reload, so moving through the work feels like cuts in a film.
Images on the fly
Renders are cropped, compressed and served in modern formats by imgix, so large images stay quick.
Tested
End-to-end tests in Playwright run on six browsers, alongside unit tests for the front end.
Client
“Looks great William, all working on our end.”
