Free moving backgrounds — gradients, particles, starfields, aurora and more, rendered live with WebGL (no heavy GIFs). Preview each one, then drop it into your website or AI-generated design, tuned to your palette.
Rounded glass flutes acting as true cylindrical lenses over a fluid two-tone light field: every rib compresses and mirrors the scene across its whole width while the rims light-pipe and disperse it — every visible line is displaced light, nothing painted on.
Animated flow field quantized through a Bayer matrix into a limited ink palette — crisp retro risograph halftone dithering with chunky pixels, wind-swept ribbons, and a drifting luminous core.
Premium film-texture finish: slow thin-film iridescent ribbons with fine animated grain and a subtle vignette.
A dot matrix whose dots brighten and scale in traveling waves.
Slow volumetric smoke and ink curls via domain-warped noise.
Volumetric crepuscular light shafts with animated dust haze inside the beams, layered ray frequencies, and a blooming origin hotspot.
Holographic foil sheen — the angle-dependent rainbow of holo trading cards and credit-card foil. A brushed charcoal-metal base carries an ordered thin-film spectrum (soap-bubble pastels, not garish rainbow) lit through a fine foil-comb rib texture that sharpens in pooled light and melts into smooth satin in the shadows, dusted with micro-glitter that flares as the film phase drifts. The cursor IS the viewing angle: sweeping the mouse rolls the full spectral field across the surface like tilting a card, with a soft prismatic reveal and glint streak under the pointer. Idle, the sheen auto-drifts slowly under two sweeping studio light bars.
Editorial print-screening background: an animated luminance field (or your photo) rendered as a classic rotated AM halftone dot screen. Dot radius encodes tone with area-true sqrt mapping, dots merge into rich solids with authentic white-diamond shadow sparkle, and an optional second ink screen at a moire-safe angle adds a duotone fringe with real overprint. Pigment-aware blending supports both deep-ink-on-warm-paper and luminous-dots-on-dark-stock schemes. With an image URL it becomes the timeless newspaper-print portrait. Cursor acts as a soft ink-press bloom.
Sunlight dancing through water: layered counter-drifting caustic light webs with hot white cores, chromatic dispersion fringes, and traveling brightness, over a depth-graded pool floor crossed by faint god-ray shafts. The cursor casts a soft water-lens ripple that warps the network, and an optional image renders as the submerged pool floor with refractive wobble.
Realistic aurora borealis with tall vertical ray curtains hanging from an undulating bright arc, height-graded color, and a twinkling night sky.
Layered flowing wave curtains with a soft specular sheen, like rippling silk.
Slow-flowing chrome mercury surface with stretched studio-reflection bands, hot specular pings, and an iridescent horizon fringe, tintable to any palette.
A slowly evolving thermal-imaging field with pulsing white-hot blooms, inferno-style cold-to-hot palette mapping, and faint topographic isoline contours.
Apple Liquid Glass material: floating rounded-glass panels that magnify and refract the scene behind them at their edges, with frosted milky depth, specular rims that follow a roaming light (or the cursor), soft elevation shadows, and fluid merging when slabs drift together. Pass an image to put real UI or photography behind the glass.
Silky animated multi-color mesh field with domain-warped organic boundaries, luminous color cores, and film-grain finish — Stripe-homepage-grade.
Cinematic night sky with three parallax star depths, color-temperature-varied stars, a subtle fbm milky-way band with a dust rift, gentle twinkle, anamorphic hero-star flares, and occasional shooting stars with properly fading tails.
Depth-of-field bokeh particle field: large defocused foreground discs with chromatic fringe, glowing anamorphic-streaked motes, and sharp background dust drifting on three parallax layers over a tinted atmospheric haze.
Large luminous soft-light fields that drift on slow lissajous paths, blooming brighter and shifting hue where they overlap — Vercel/Linear-grade hero glow.
An animated plasma field rendered as a grid of crisp procedural ASCII glyphs (. : - = + * # @) with phosphor glow, CRT scanlines and idle-terminal flicker.
Uniform pixel-grid gradient: a strict grid of flat-tinted cells stepping through an intensity staircase from the page tone to a saturated accent, with a flowing field drifting through the grid, gently breathing cells, and rare deep accent pops.
Animated topographic contour map: a slowly-morphing terrain height field rendered as crisp anti-aliased isolines with heavier index contours every Nth line, hypsometric tint bands between index levels, soft hillshade relief, and paper-fibre texture. Moving the cursor raises a smooth hill under the pointer and concentric contour rings bloom outward around it. Swiss cartography meets a Field Notes notebook.
Every effect in this gallery is an animated website background rendered live with WebGL — gradients, particle fields, starfields, aurora, mesh gradients, caustics and more. Because they draw in the browser instead of playing a video or GIF, they stay crisp at any screen size and stay light on bandwidth.
Preview any background live, then remix its colors and speed in the browser. No account is needed to browse, preview, or experiment with the effect settings.
Animated website backgrounds are moving visuals — gradients, particle fields, starfields, aurora, mesh gradients and more — that sit behind your content. These are rendered live with WebGL in the browser rather than baked into a video or GIF, so they stay crisp at any size.
Yes. Every effect is free to preview live in the AIDesigner effects library. No account is required to browse and preview the gallery.
Open any effect to preview it live, then use "Remix this effect" to adjust colors, speed, and parameters before using it as a reference for your own implementation.
They run on the GPU at a capped frame rate and stop rendering when scrolled off-screen, so they are much lighter than a background video. For the lightest pages, pick a single effect for the hero section rather than several at once.
Yes. Every effect exposes parameters like colors, speed and intensity, and AIDesigner's AI automatically tunes them to your brand palette when you add the effect to a design — or you can describe the change in plain language.
