Magnetic 3D Grid Interaction with Content Preview

A grid layout with a magnetic 3D interaction effect and a content preview animation.

By Manoela Ilic in Playground on
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Today I’d like to share another thumbnail to full view animation with you. This time we have an initial grid with thumbnails that move with the mouse in 3D and have a magnetic effect including a little tooltip on hover. Once clicked, all items animate out, giving way to a content preview with more details.

The grid interaction looks as follows:

Here’s how the grid to content animation looks like:

I really hope you find this useful! Thanks for visiting!

Manoela Ilic

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