Website/Misato Town

• Misato Town — みさとと

  • The rebranding microsite for Misato, a small town of ~4,600 in Shimane prefecture, Japan, built by the studio Shiftbrain as the town's rebranding partner.

  • Why it is notable

    • The scene is a single continuous, well-produced animation rather than typical jerky parallax: scroll position is mapped to a point along a pre-designed keyframed timeline with built-in interpolation, so the WebGL scene plays like film that the reader scrubs — the scroll drives time, not objects directly.
    • Flat 2D illustrations are lifted into a 3D WebGL scene; an illustrated map doubles as scroll-triggered navigation, with an overlay menu.

  • Stack

    • Three.js over WebGL, SVG artwork, bundled with Webpack; responsive.

  • Awards

    • Awwwards — Site of the Day, 2019-11-07