10 Cool CSS3 3D Tutorials + Demos

Even though CSS3 is not fully supported yet, many web developers are starting to use many of the new techniques introduced. CSS3 has taken a very large step forward in helping web developers get away from importing mass amounts of images/JavaScript and making it possible to do this only by using pure CSS.

3D Text Tower

Have you seen David Desandro’s site? It’s pretty slick. His footer is especially fun

3D Text Tower

Pure CSS animated 3D Super Mario Icon

Well, this is the result of two weeks of work – an animated 3D Super Mario Icon built completely in CSS3 without images.

Pure CSS animated 3D Super Mario Icon

Animated wicked CSS3 3d bar chart

Do you remember the Wicked CSS3 3d bar chart that I placed online a couple of weeks ago? Paul Irish left a comment, requesting for an example with transitions. My reply was that I was already working on that, and today I'm proud to release the animated wicked CSS3 3d bar chart.The principle is the same as the previous version: Create a beautiful 3d bar chart. But this time, we don't create a "stacked" one (since animation would be hard), but several bars placed under each other. When hovering, the animation shows and the bar will grow to the appropriate size.

Animated wicked CSS3 3d bar chart

How To Create Depth And Nice 3D Ribbons Only Using CSS3

In this last period on PV.M Garage we have described many trends of the modern Web Design and many techniques for creating stunning and impressive web sites.
In one of our tutorials we learned how to realize a nice 3D ribbon and how to play with the drop shadow in Photoshop to simulate depth in a web design layout. This is a widespread trends in recent web design: creating a 3D perception in a website and simulating a “world” in three dimensions are two great ways for the designers to play with their skills.

How To Create Depth And Nice 3D Ribbons Only Using CSS3

Animated CSS3 cube using 3D transforms

Last week Web­Kit included the much anti­cip­ated (at least on my part) 3D trans­forms in its latest nightly build, announced prac­tic­ally along­side the awe­some Snow Stack demo that provides a 3D inter­face for brows­ing Flickr images (use left, right and space-bar). Today the Surfin Safari blog has updated with some more excit­ing demos, includ­ing “Morphin Power Cubes” and “Poster Circle”. It is now pos­sible to cre­ate all sorts of crazy three-dimensional and anim­ated user inter­faces; the power comes largely in -webkit-perspective and a num­ber of updated trans­forms – adap­ted to incor­por­ate the Z axis.

Animated CSS3 cube using 3D transforms

CSS 3D Meninas

I’ve took the classic paint The Maids of Honour (Las Meninas) and made this CSS pseudo-3D/parallax effect. It is pure CSS, so no javascript or flash involved: only CSS and HTML code.It has been tested and it is working on Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3, Opera 9, Safari 3, Chrome 4 and Konqueror 3.5, and it validates.

CSS 3D Meninas

3D transforms in Firefox 3.5 – the isocube

This demo was created by Zachary Johnson, a Minneapolis, MN based web developer who has also authored a jQuery plugin for animated “3D” rotation.I’d like to show an example of a visual effect that can be accomplished using the new -moz-transform CSS transformation property that is available in the Firefox 3.5 browser. I was very excited to see this feature added to Firefox because I knew it would allow me to produce a faux-3D isometric effect, also sometimes called 2.5D. I created a demo where HTML content is mapped onto the faces of a “3D” isometric cube:

3d demo isocube

3d animation using pure CSS3

A couple of days ago, somebody tweeted a great looking CSS3 example. I was absolutely stunned by the example And all that Malarkey created and was wondering how he was able to produce that kind of effect. I knew about the CSS3 transition property, but how to create that 3d effect?At that point, I started digging through the Safari Reference Library, where I eventually found the Safari CSS Visual Effects Guide: Transforms page. This page describes a CSS property I've never seen before: -webkit-perspective.The perspective property is what we need to create the 3d effect. Using transform and transition, we can create 3d animation using pure CSS3.

3d animation using pure CSS3

Css3 Cube

css3 cube 3d

Multiple 3D Cubes with animation using CSS

Multiple 3D Cubes with animation using CSS