Nocturne — Dark Studio Narrative
- Agency
- Dark Mode
- Scrollytelling
19 templates from the Formynex catalogue build depth rather than illustrate it. 17 of them project real geometry as you scroll, drawn live by your visitor’s graphics hardware — not a video, not a parallax stack of flat images.
Each one has a public demo you can open and scroll on your own device before you decide. That matters more here than anywhere else on the site: real-time 3D is the one thing a still preview cannot honestly represent.
Three different techniques ship under the same label, and they are not interchangeable. Counted from the catalogue.
Geometry projected every frame by Three.js, loaded from a CDN by the template itself. The camera answers the scroll position, so going back retraces the path exactly.
Nocturne — Dark Studio Narrative scroll-scrubs a pre-rendered 3D sequence on a 2D canvas, so the camera path is fixed rather than live.
Nebula — Creative Agency builds its depth from CSS 3D transforms rather than rendered geometry.
No build step, no package install, no framework. Markup, styles and the scene code sit in a single document you can edit and upload anywhere that serves static files.
The 3D work is done by Three.js, which the file fetches itself at a pinned version. 11 of these templates also use GSAP for their scroll timelines. Nothing is bundled, so there is nothing to rebuild when you change the copy.
Nebula — Creative Agency ships as a React + Vite project, which needs npm and a build step. Each template’s own page states its format exactly.
Corridors, vortices and circuit geometry that make an abstract product feel like somewhere you can walk through. The commonest use: a platform with nothing photogenic to show.
Chambers and tunnels built to suggest depth of capability rather than illustrate a feature. Written for AI products, where the screenshot is a text box and the story has to come from somewhere else.
Studio narratives where the work is the argument and the motion carries the reader through it in one scroll.
Buildings you approach rather than photograph — a tower or an avenue assembled in the browser, so the visitor arrives at the property instead of scrolling past a gallery of it.
Single templates also cover architecture (Quarry — Modular Canal City), cybersecurity (Meridian — Secure Corridor), motion design (Cadence — Arch Motion Tunnel) and visual design (Pigment — Colour-Block City). The category names the copy that ships in the demo, and copy is the easiest thing to change — so read them as examples rather than limits.
In the catalogue’s running order. Every card opens a live demo.
All 19 respond to the operating system’s reduce motion setting: decorative animation and smooth scrolling stand down for visitors who ask for them. The scroll-driven scene is the template itself, so it stays — what stops is the movement layered around it.
Real-time 3D asks more of a device than a static page does, and how much more depends on the scene. We publish no benchmark figures because we have not measured these templates in the field, and a number we cannot stand behind is worth less to you than the demo — open the one you like on the hardware your visitors actually use. What animation actually costs a page separates the part that affects ranking from the part that affects indexing, which is the one worth checking first.
Looking wider? Browse the full Formynex catalogue, where these 19 sit alongside every other template.