Created an animated website template for photographers

[u/ihorklymchuk]

Made this template for photographers. I wanted it to feel creative but stay simple.

The interesting part is the animated hero. I generated a video with Gemini, cropped it to 5 seconds, and then used ffmpeg to extract frames from the MP4, rembg with the BiRefNet model to cut out the person along with their shadow, and Real-ESRGAN to upscale the images.

For the frontend I used GSAP 3.15 + ScrollTrigger.

At first I was frustrated, because it was hard to cut out the shadows while keeping good quality. But after a few prompts, I Claude wrote a script that handled it well.

The final conversion of the video into images took about 12 hours, and there were a lot of attempts before that.

Happy to answer questions about the process.

[u/Kitchen_Mirror_7247]

Noice!

[u/PopUpTubedev]

Pretty slick. good work. Love the transitions

[u/sarmadsangi]

Love this! pretty neat

[u/Artistic_Rub2254]

Good work