Jacob Miller

Jacob Miller · Launch Video Breakdown: Hook, Pacing & Motion Design

A bunch of people were asking how I made the effect for the "renderaissance" style page I made previously. Here's a full walkthrough of creating that depth / dynamic lighting effect for the web. In…

Tech & SaaSLaunchJuly 13, 2026@pwnies
0:00 · The Hook · Interactive Depth Card Preview
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Scene-by-scene timeline & spoken transcript

  1. The Hook

    Interactive Depth Card Preview

    “Okay, here's a demo of how I made this effect that you saw in the previous example that I dropped. It's this cool lighting depth effect.”

    On screen
    TAROT SANCTUARY Decode the symbols. Remember yourself. THE SUN THE FOOL
    Camera
    Static screen capture with dynamic cursor tracking
    Motion
    Interactive 3D tilt and cursor-reactive normal map specular highlights
  2. Problem Agitation

    Prompting UI Canvas in Diffu

    “The first thing was I just did a simple prompt for this kind of linocut inspired painting style for a tarot card site. I got an initial design for it. I looked through a couple of these to see which one I wanted. But eventually I was like cool, I'm going to go with this one that has an actual card. I'm going to animate this card and give that its depth.”

    On screen
    An interactive tarot card site, with a captivating, multi-layered aesthetic that bridges the gap between digital surrealism and classical fine art. Linocut-inspired dreamscapes and rich, textured oil paintings defined by thick, expressive brushstrokes. Dark mode.
    Camera
    Screen recording panning across node graph canvas
    Motion
    Node canvas navigation and UI iteration selection
  3. Feature Teaser

    Asset Isolation & Prompts

    “So the first step is actually isolating the card itself. So what I did is I did another prompt here to say show me only the card. I made a few designs for that, and then I said show me the background without any of the actual UI elements as well.”

    On screen
    Show me the card. Make it high-res. Show me only the background art without any UI
    Camera
    Zoomed canvas view focusing on prompt node connections
    Motion
    Node-based branching workflow visualization
  4. Feature Teaser

    Generating Card Variants & Prompt Export

    “Once I had those elements, I was able to then go ahead and create all the other cards from that card source of truth. So I created three other cards as well as a card background. Once I had all of these designs, I just selected all of them, and then I right-clicked and said copy for agent.”

    On screen
    Scaled Card Preview THE SUN Tarot Card Shador THE FOOL Tarot Card Lovers THE LOVERS Hermit Tarot Card THE HERMIT Card Back Artwork Copied prompt for agent
    Camera
    Wide view of multi-card node tree followed by context menu click
    Motion
    Context menu interaction and clipboard toast trigger
  5. Product Reveal

    Agent Prompting in Fable

    “This basically created an interactive prompt for the agent to actually go and build this out. I then pasted that over into Fable, and then I created some additional rules here around hey, want you to use the backgrounds that are provided as well as the separate cards. I also want you to generate normal, roughness, and height maps for each of these.”

    On screen
    Create a web page implementation from the following instructions: For the page above, I want you to animate the cards in when you click the draw card button. Additionally, in the link is an extracted background for you to use for the bg... I want you to generate normal, roughness, and height maps for each of the cards...
    Camera
    Static text input box with fast keystroke entry
    Motion
    Simulated terminal typing and instruction prompt composition
  6. Feature Teaser

    Diffu MCP Tooling & Generation Logs

    “which the little Diffu MCP that I'm using for this can do natively. You can install that here. But once that happened, the agent finished, it generated all the maps, it did all the lighting effects, it connected to the mouse, everything else.”

    On screen
    diffu.ai Designs, directly in your agent. npx diffui.ai Done — the chain animation is in and working. Next up I will review dynamic lighting with shaders.
    Camera
    Browser scroll across installation page cutting to terminal logs
    Motion
    Rapid terminal log scrolling and page transition cut
  7. Call to Action

    Live Shader Demo & Fal.ai Patina Model

    “And here was the result. So you actually see a pretty cool little interactive card example. It's crazy how good this effect is, but it's actually pretty simple to do. Go and check it out. It actually uses Fal.ai's Patina model under the hood, which is a really, really good model out there for actually separating out different maps from an image source of truth.”

    On screen
    TAROT SANCTUARY Decode the symbols. Remember yourself. DRAW A CARD THE SUN THE FOOL THE LOVERS THE HERMIT
    Camera
    Static full-screen web UI view with mouse-driven interactions
    Motion
    Interactive WebGL surface shader with dynamic specular, normal bump, and card flip sequence

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