Premium beverage brand launch with 3D product visualization
Client
Cody Deer
Industry
Consumer Goods / Beverages
Services
Brand Direction, Web Design, Framer Development, 3D Asset Integration
Tech stack
Framer, 3D WebP Renders, CMS, E-commerce Ready
Year
2024
How AGR Studio built Cody Deer's premium beverage brand website with optimized 3D product renders and e-commerce-ready layout on Framer.
Cody Deer is a premium craft beverage brand launching into a competitive market dominated by established players. Without an existing retail presence, the website was their primary brand touchpoint, the place where distributors, retailers, and consumers would form their first impression.
The founders invested in professional 3D product renders, clay models, floating can compositions, lifestyle scenes, and needed a website that would showcase these assets as effectively as a physical retail display. The site had to feel premium from the first pixel.
Brand Positioning Through Web
We studied how successful beverage brands use their websites: the best ones make you want to reach through the screen and grab the product. Photography (or in this case, 3D renders) does the heavy lifting. Copy is minimal and confident. The overall experience feels like walking into a well-designed store.
The site structure follows the emotional arc of product discovery: intrigue (hero with floating product), desire (lifestyle imagery and flavor descriptions), trust (ingredients, sourcing story), and action (purchase pathway).
Product-Forward Design
The 3D renders dictated the design language. We built the entire color system from the product itself, extracting palette values from the can designs and using them as section backgrounds. This creates a seamless relationship between product and page, as if the cans are painting the environment around them.
Typography is bold and condensed, a single display face for headlines with a readable body font. The layout alternates between full-bleed product hero shots and tight product-detail sections, creating a rhythm of scale that keeps visitors scrolling.
3D Asset Optimization
The 3D renders were delivered as high-resolution PNGs, beautiful but heavy. We processed each image through a multi-step pipeline: background removal, WebP conversion with quality optimization, and responsive variants at 3 breakpoints. The result: renders that look stunning at 2x retina resolution while loading in under 500ms each.
The product gallery uses a custom grid component that maintains consistent image proportions across all viewport sizes. Individual product pages pull from a CMS collection, letting Cody Deer add new flavors and SKUs without developer involvement.
Launch Impact
The website became Cody Deer's most effective sales tool. Distributor meetings that previously relied on physical samples now start with a website walkthrough. The premium digital presence helped Cody Deer secure retail placements that typically require an established brand track record, the website made them look established before they were.
26 Optimized
3D Renders
< 500ms/image
Load Time
4 Weeks
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