Side project 1
So, what am I working on right now? Imagine an isometric world—simple, organized, neatly confined within a grid. But here’s the twist: the inhabitants of this world, the humans, dogs, and everyday objects, don’t quite follow the rules. They exist in this geometric playground, yes, but they’re not entirely bound by it. They move, breathe, and live in ways that seem almost too real for their structured surroundings.
This project, now in its third, fourth, or maybe even fifth iteration, is a lightweight exploration using CSS and JavaScript. It’s a side project, a playground of sorts, where the design and images showcase organic, natural shapes within this calculated isometric world. The characters, despite their surroundings, mirror the very essence of real-life actions and emotions—mundane, repetitive, yet strangely captivating.
You see, the figures I’ve created are defined by what they do. The way people look natural these days is by looking at their phones, heads down, necks craned, completely absorbed in that tiny screen. It’s almost poetic that when this project is finished, you’ll likely view it on your phone too, adopting that same pose as the figures you’re watching. Strange, isn’t it? A kind of meta-commentary on the way we exist in our spaces, both physical and digital.
The approach here has been deliberately experimental. Phase after phase, iteration after iteration, I’ve been building lightweight, reusable graphics, converting them to SVG, slicing and dicing, simplifying them into CSS animations. The process is almost surgical—breaking down characters defined by their actions, only to reconstruct them into something that feels both familiar and unsettlingly distant.
In Phase 2, I’m diving deeper, creating a visual language rooted in simple shapes and geometric patterns. CSS clip-path and masking techniques form the backbone of this exploration, piecing together shapes that evolve into animated characters. Each figure, each movement, is a reflection of the mundane tasks that fill our lives—ironic, really, in a world so meticulously organized yet so chaotically human.
But here’s the thing: it’s all just a bit off-center, a little too precise, a little too structured for comfort. And maybe that’s the point. This project invites you to read between the lines, to look a little closer at the world within the grid, and maybe—just maybe—see a reflection of the one you’re in right now.
