Unicorn Studio

No-code WebGL motion editor + embed

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What it is

Layer-based real-time canvas stacking 75+ shader effects — distortion, noise, bloom, godrays, mouse trails — into an animated visual you publish as a live WebGL embed. This is the tool behind most of the animated gradient heroes you see on Framer sites.

Why it earns a slot

The cheap way to get one showpiece background — a cover hero or a section divider. Runtime is only ~50 kB gz, far lighter than Spline. Official React export button, or use the community unicornstudio-react package.

Know before you commit

Free tier is watermarked and non-commercial — any commercial use needs the $20/mo. Every layer is a separate shader pass, so effects stack fast on low-end devices; use data-us-lazyload and data-us-scale. Cancel and republish, and the watermark returns.

Getting started

npm install unicornstudio-react

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Pricing snapshot

Free (watermarked, non-commercial) · $168/yr

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Evaluate Unicorn Studio (https://www.unicorn.studio/) for this project, then use it only if it fits what we are already building.
Context: No-code WebGL motion editor + embed. Layer-based real-time canvas stacking 75+ shader effects — distortion, noise, bloom, godrays, mouse trails — into an animated visual you publish as a live WebGL embed. This is the tool behind most of the animated gradient heroes you see on Framer sites.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): The cheap way to get one showpiece background — a cover hero or a section divider. Runtime is only ~50 kB gz, far lighter than Spline. Official React export button, or use the community unicornstudio-react package.
Watch out for: Free tier is watermarked and non-commercial — any commercial use needs the $20/mo. Every layer is a separate shader pass, so effects stack fast on low-end devices; use data-us-lazyload and data-us-scale. Cancel and republish, and the watermark returns.
Pricing: Free (watermarked, non-commercial) · $168/yr
Setup: npm install unicornstudio-react
Rules: treat the notes above as background only. Do not assume a theme, style, layout or feature that is not already in this project — inspect the existing code first and ask me before changing visual direction.

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