A fluid-simulated orange orb drifts over a cream background on the BlueYard homepage, with four scrollable sections for Computation, Engineering, Bio, and Crypto arranged below.
Most VC websites either shout minimalism at you or drown you in case studies about "founder-led growth." BlueYard's does neither. It opens with Buckminster Fuller asking whether we're headed toward utopia or oblivion, then drops you into an orange-on-cream world where a fluid-simulated orb pulses through the Computation section like a small sun that hasn't yet decided. Scroll and the page reconstitutes itself through four thematic zones (computation, engineering and defense, bio, crypto) before landing you in front of the team. It reads more like a small astronomical atlas than a pitch deck.
Credit goes to Unseen Studio, the Bristol-and-London shop that also built the original 2021 BlueYard "galaxy" and has been quietly stacking Awwwards SOTDs ever since. The new site trades the old nebula particle navigation for something calmer and stranger. Under the hood it's Three.js doing the heavy lifting, a custom fluid sim driving the orb, and reactive cursor behavior that keeps the whole thing alive without drifting into demo-reel territory.
Worth opening devtools on. Watch the frame budget while the section transitions do their thing, poke at how the orb reacts to mouse velocity, and dig into the shader work to see what a portfolio site can actually get away with.
- Live Demo: https://blueyard.com
- Author: Unseen Studio (X, Instagram, LinkedIn, Dribbble)