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Somnus FX
Client
Portfolio site · VFX studio · live
The machine builds the pages. The studio decides how its work looks.
The challenge
A visual effects studio in Querétaro had spectacular work and nowhere to show it properly. The material arrived as mockups, intro animations, a brandbook, and lots of video.
The approach
I read everything and wrote a design brief before building. I made a prototype, took the studio's feedback in short rounds, and rebuilt until they said "that's it." Plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with no build step: a video-driven site needs nothing more, and the studio can maintain it.
The system
01Studio material
- Mockups
- Brandbook
- Video
02Design brief
- What shows, and how
03Prototype
- Pages assembled from the mockups
04The studio decides
- Feedback each round
- Which projects go live
↺ Back to the prototype
05Live
- Spanish and English
- One page per project
The boundary
The agent decided
- Assembling pages from the mockups.
- Tuning spacing and behavior.
- Checking that videos loaded.
- Checking that links and both languages worked.
The studio and I decided
- Which projects to show (one under NDA was removed entirely).
- How each section is named and looks.
- What goes live and when.
Result
A published portfolio on its own domain that looks like the studio, not a template, in two languages, with one page per project.
What I learned
Short rounds with the client beat one big initial design. And clients decide better with something they can see than with a description.