Commission a 3D website that tells your story as people scroll

From $1,015 USD for a Story Proposal (the script and a working clay version), $3,845 for a parallax scroll story, $5,860 for a full 3D story page like this one, and from $9,915 for several scenes or models built from your own files. For comparison, a US or European studio doing this kind of page usually starts in the five figures, because a team of people each bill their part.

I work US hours. I am at my desk 9am to 5pm New York time, which is 9pm to 5am in Singapore, so replies reach you during your working day rather than the morning after. On the West Coast that covers 6am to 2pm. Calls are on Google Meet or Zoom, so none of it costs you an international call. The one thing worth knowing: if you are in California and want to talk at 4pm, that is 7am here, so we would book it rather than do it on the spot.

Three things. A written agreement is signed before any money moves, setting out the scope, the price, the timeline and what lands at each stage. You can pay in stages tied to the script, the clay version and launch rather than a 50/50 split, so less is with me at any one time. And if you cancel part way through, you pay for the work that is done and the rest comes back.

Yes. You get an invoice with the business name, registration number and address, and I will sign a W-8BEN on request, which is the form that lets a US company pay a non-US contractor without withholding 30%. Ask for it with the first invoice and it comes back the same day.

Yes, though most of my work is for Singapore businesses and I would rather say that than dress it up. The most recent one outside Singapore is joaoflores.com, a personal site for a creative director. The rest is in my portfolio, and the reviews below are from those clients.

By PayPal, invoiced in USD. The Story Proposal is paid upfront and credited in full against the build if you go ahead. Builds are half upfront and half when you sign off the finished page, so you see the whole thing working before the second half is due. If you would rather not send half at once, it can be split across the script, the clay version and launch instead.

Small edits in the first 30 days are included with 3D Story and 3D World. After that you can leave it alone, since the site is yours on your own hosting, or have me grow it on the website partner retainer, $3,045 a month: Google Ads, SEO and new landing pages, with hosting and upkeep included. There is no lock-in either way.

Yes, those are other names for it. A scrollytelling or interactive 3D website moves the story along as you scroll instead of making you click through pages. What makes these ones different is that the 3D is built around one sentence about your business, so the motion is there to prove a point, not just to look impressive.

People use the words loosely. Here, an animated or parallax website is layered artwork that moves as you scroll (the Scroll Story). An interactive 3D website draws a real 3D scene in the browser that the scroll moves through (the 3D Story, like this page). An immersive website is several scenes or a full walk-through, often built from your own CAD or product files (the 3D World).

Every heading and paragraph is ordinary HTML, loaded before the 3D, so Google reads the page like any other and visitors can start reading straight away. The scene is modelled in code rather than downloaded as heavy files, and it drops its own quality on slower devices to keep scrolling smooth.

The page checks what the device can handle and steps down as it goes: sharper or softer rendering, then fewer effects, until the scroll is smooth. A browser with no 3D support at all gets the same words as a plain page.

No. Most scenes are modelled for you, in code, the way this one is. If you have CAD drawings or product files, I can build from those, which is part of the 3D World tier.

You do, once it is paid for. Code, copy and scene all go to you, hosted on your own account, in your own name.

Yes. The copy sits in one file, separate from the 3D, so text changes are quick. Small edits in the first 30 days are included with 3D Story and 3D World.

Yes. It can live as a landing page on your current domain, whatever the rest of the site is built with. If you are rebuilding your whole site with me, a 3D landing page on top of that build is $4,545.

Yes. Ads cares about load speed and whether the page matches the ad, and both are built in: the text arrives first and the enquiry form works with or without the 3D. I run Google Ads too, so the page and the campaign can be set up together.