Beautiful Examples of 3D Elements in Web Design
3D elements used in web design can make a website more impressive and memorable. The purpose of 3D elements is to create a feeling of depth. For that reason, websites with 3D elements look interesting because most websites have a flat, 2-dimensional design.
In this collection, you will find 45 modern website designs that use 3D elements. I hope this showcase will be useful and inspiring to you.
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45 Comments
Sarfraz raza
June 3rd, 2010
Excellent designs.Web design plays an important role.what we need is a solid and attractive web design for our website and that design must fulfill our business requirements..
Chris McConnell
June 3rd, 2010
Cool collection. Thanks for featuring Freelance Review Tomas! Keep up the great work.
Vectorbunker
June 3rd, 2010
Wow Nice Source Thanks a lot man.
Techwatch
June 3rd, 2010
like the coke one, east valley bible is not too good
Jordan Walker
June 3rd, 2010
All of those sites take the mundane two dimensional interface of the computer monitor and turn it up one notch!
Scott
June 3rd, 2010
Some inspiring, some not, I definitely like the design components that produce shadows (chrome handle, red arrows). The ‘wrap around’ banner graphics are just too redundant.
Computer Gaming sites, usual have the best examples as they integrate the 3D models into the designs.
Jeremy Olson
June 3rd, 2010
Great roundup Tomas! I’ve beent trying to find some great examples of 3D design since I’ve been experimenting with it on http://www.skookum.com/blog and http://www.gradesapp.com
I think a key is to add depth in the right places so as to not look overly superfluous. It’s tempting to want to 3Dify everything since it is a neat trick (and can really set your site apart) but, for example, I feel like the DesignMess account labels are drawing too much attention to themselves and the depth seems a bit repetitive since those labels are so close together. I think repeating the same 3D effect over and over in a small area kind of gets stale.
Thanks for posting!
Martin Lachapelle
June 3rd, 2010
I tomas Laurinavicius , i wonder how you create a blog entry like this one do you site down and try to find 3d website or do you bookmark as you go and then post it when you got enough site…
bad english sorry i am from Montréal (QC)
BozBoz
June 3rd, 2010
Wow, Dragon Interactive sure looks impressive.
Thanks for an inspiring list.
Anwar
June 3rd, 2010
Comcast Town is my fav. Perfect example of the power of Flash.
Aery
June 3rd, 2010
I am Surely Going to Use This
Pusparaj
June 3rd, 2010
Need to think twice for next project… ;)
Dathan
June 3rd, 2010
thanks for this, Id like to see more posts like this one!
Eko Setiawan
June 3rd, 2010
Great collection, capture again..some of them, for my inspiration folder…
Thanks…
Peter Chon
June 3rd, 2010
Nice~
Please checkout mine too :)
http://www.peterchon.com
Shawn McConnell
June 3rd, 2010
Are there any downfalls to having this type of coding on your homepage? ie load times etc
Nice collection,
Shawn
Nishal
June 4th, 2010
Some of the designs are awesome while I didn’t like others. I would believe that use of 3D elements should be limited only to portfolio sites!
BTP
June 4th, 2010
really nice. it look like live.
Richard
June 4th, 2010
Great post, many nice elements seen to use in future designs!
Today stumbled upon another (dutch) site with nice 3d elements: http://flume.nl/
Levinson Axelrod
June 4th, 2010
Excellent 3D examples. Marc Mendell and Pixelgraphix utilized the 3D element very well.
Levinson
June 4th, 2010
Excellent examples of the 3D design. Marc Mendell’s site utilized this element very well.
ddeja
June 4th, 2010
Some of the 3D elements are really cool! I just love to see smart usage of the elements. But flying ribbons and sheets of paper are not the example of something new.
Two of my latest favourites to the great 3D collection:
http://www.aussiebbqlegends.com/
and
http://www.delibarapp.com/
Thanks.
Calgary web design
June 4th, 2010
Thx for compiling this great list of examples. It definitely created some awesome comments too. Keep ‘em coming!
Aisha
June 5th, 2010
Wow, I must say very nice designs. Today web designing is growing day by day and it is very important that website must be very appropriate with it subject. Here given examples are superb and very well designed. Nowadays people need more and more creative designs. These all are really very nice examples. I really appreciate that you had shared this.
Charlie
June 5th, 2010
Awesome! thank you for featuring! :)
Nikos
June 5th, 2010
Once again a great article! My 2 cents…
I think the web is not made to be in 3d! BUT… there are numerous cases in your examples above that 3d elements are carefully chosen to highlight or call to action by popping out of the rest of the design.
This is the right way to use 3d in a web page I think. If you overdo-it you lose it.
Nauman Akhtar
June 6th, 2010
All of these are so damn creative, beautiful, thanks for letting us know. Regards.
CSSReX
June 6th, 2010
Beautiful use of 3D graphics in a website! I am loving it :)
prashish
June 6th, 2010
awesome collection.. loved it..
inspiring me to make a my own portfolio website :)
napsell
June 7th, 2010
Thanks for this great showcase. 3D features change webdesign to creative and new look.
I like 3D ribbons. One of famous example is CNET.com.
thanks
zunara
June 7th, 2010
That was a brilliant round-up of great tools : I loved reading it, and I agree @Tyler Stample, the screenshots and brief descriptions were really good to help make the list easier to browse.
Maverick
June 7th, 2010
wow. they all are sooooooooo beautiful
i love them all.
Antonea Nabors
June 7th, 2010
I love seeing 3d is web design. It is truly beautiful to see a designer work 3d into 2d design effectively.
Joe Payton
June 8th, 2010
Just got back from vacation and noticed the spike in my traffic. AWESOME! Thank you for having me on this great list!
yosoychi
June 9th, 2010
The Marc Mendell design has serious problems with perspective. I mean, the viewing angle of the table is different from the perspective that we see the macbook. I don’t understand how no one mentioned this.
My favorite design is the Steven Wittens
Aisha
June 10th, 2010
Nice information, I really appreciate the way you presented.Thanks for sharing..
Marc
June 11th, 2010
Wow – thanks for the inclusion on the list! Flattering to be included in such an inspiring group~
Yosoychi – I am aware that the perspective is off – it was a choice believe it or not – When I did this design, the intent was not specifically to be 3D or even literal, but to create a mood -looking over my shoulder – using the perspective of the keyboard increased the size of the laptop vertically – something that I did not want, as it competed with the images on the inside. But I can certainly appreciate your thoughts -
deniz
June 19th, 2010
some very interesting 3D designs you got here, thx for the useful post
beritasekarang
June 22nd, 2010
light and clean webdesign~ like the colours~ excellent 3d design~
Paulo
September 7th, 2010
Very cool
AceeBaBa
September 19th, 2010
Wonderful :), all that are really in-spiry designs for me.
Mark Morcom
September 27th, 2010
Thanks for the great inspiration. Pulling out Cinema 4D to crack out some 3d websites :D
Evandro Teixeira
October 9th, 2010
Most of them are just static websites :). I would call that list of “Beautiful Examples of 2D Elements” but it’s still awesome!
:)
admirus
March 24th, 2011
Best disain!
aftab ahmad
October 27th, 2011
I like all over the designed. very impress
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