Living Portrait - Interactive Portfolio

A one-page portfolio built around a portrait that reacts to the visitor. It looks like a 3D character, but there is no 3D model and no video: it is 56 still pictures of the same face, lined up to the pixel and swapped on a soft WebGL sheet.

What the portrait does

• Eyes follow the cursor in 16 directions, and it blinks
• Hover the nose, an eye or the mouth: cross-eyed, a wink, a kiss
• Tap the mouth, a cheek or the chin: tongue out, puffed cheeks, a laugh
• Grab the face and pull: the skin stretches and ripples back
• Switch the haircut, or hover the contact button for heart eyes
• Left alone, it yawns, whistles, sneezes and blows bubble gum

How it was built

• Every expression is an AI-generated edit of one approved base picture, so the head never moves between swaps
• A local script aligns the set to the tap zones and cleans the cut-outs
• The skin is a damped wave simulation on a 72 by 72 mesh, stepped at a fixed 240 Hz so it never tears
• Only one picture is on screen at a time, with a 70 ms crossfade

The rest of the page

• A marquee of live sites that slides with the scroll
• Character-by-character text reveal, stacking project cards with a lightbox
• One nav that gathers into a glass pill as you scroll