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Heritage houses · Private clients · Worldwide

Websites people feel before they read.

A figure emerges from the mist as the reader arrives. Built for houses whose value is carved, not printed — the frame breathes, the veil thins, and your first line lands before a paragraph is read. This edition is a scroll-driven film: the clip only moves when you do.

Scroll-drivenhero effect
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Heritage houses · Private clients · Worldwide

The figure holds. The page begins.

Six seconds of fog, one continuous move — then your story takes over below.

Scroll to play
Why this one moves

Hand the reader the transport controls and they will watch the whole thing.

Marble Ascent Film is directed, not decorated. The opening frame is treated the way a director treats a first shot: one continuous move, real depth, and the message placed exactly where the eye lands.

The hero becomes a runway three screens tall with the film pinned to the top of it, so every pixel of scroll moves the playhead and the reader becomes the projectionist. The seek is smoothed and quantised to a frame so the decoder never thrashes. Everything ships as a single self-contained file that drops into Webflow, WordPress, Shopify or Framer — and your team edits every word without touching code.

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What you get

Three things this template guarantees.

Built for luxury teams that need the opening to carry weight and the rest of the page to stay out of the way.

01

Scroll-driven film

The hero becomes a runway three screens tall with the film pinned to the top of it, so every pixel of scroll moves the playhead and the reader becomes the projectionist. The seek is smoothed and quantised to a frame so the decoder never thrashes.

02

One file

Hero, sections, form and copy editor in a single HTML document. No build step, no framework, no plugin — paste it in and it runs.

03

Sixty frames

Device pixel ratio capped at two, reduced-motion honoured with a still frame, and a graceful image fallback if WebGL is unavailable.

The principle

The scrollbar is the playhead.

Everything in Marble Ascent Film exists to make the first scroll feel intentional. Nothing wobbles for its own sake; every move is tied to how far the reader has travelled.

1.8sto first rendered frame
60fpson an ordinary laptop
0frameworks required
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Make Marble Ascent Film yours.

Send the image you want in the hero and a line about the brand. We re-skin Marble Ascent Film to your palette, type and copy, and hand back one file — usually inside five working days.

Or write to hello@heroeffects.com
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