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Liquid Background.

A flowing, liquid animated background that makes a landing page feel alive and expensive — premium motion without touching WebGL code.

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01 · The Vibe

Liquid Background gives you that flowing, liquid animated backdrop you've seen on the best modern landing pages — colors slowly shifting and rippling like silk or water, smooth enough to feel premium and subtle enough to not fight your content. It's a real-time shader effect, so it actually moves, gently morphing forever without ever looping in an obvious way. Drop it behind a hero section and your page instantly feels alive and expensive. This is the skill for anyone who wants that high-end animated look without touching WebGL code.

● Looks Like
Apple's product launch backdropsPaper's design toolsMagicUI and Aceternity hero demosSynthwave album art that learned restraintThe kind of landing page where the background slowly moves and you can't quite look away
02 · Best For / Avoid If
＋ Best For
+Landing page and marketing site hero sections
+Product launch pages that need to feel premium
+Portfolio sites that want a modern, polished first impression
+SaaS and AI product sites
+Any page where the first few seconds need to make an impression
+Backgrounds for sign-up screens, waitlist pages, and coming-soon pages
× Avoid If
×Your page is dense with content and the moving background would compete for attention
×You need maximum performance on low-end devices — real-time shaders use the GPU and can drain battery on phones
×Your brand is built around stillness, minimalism, or a print-like aesthetic
×You have a lot of text sitting directly on the background — animated color shifts make sustained reading harder
03 · Design Philosophy
01

Motion should be felt, not noticed

The whole point of a good liquid background is that it moves slowly enough that you sense the life in it without being distracted. The color shifts happen over several seconds, never fast, never jarring. If someone consciously notices the animation pulling their eye away from your content, it's moving too fast.

02

The background supports, the content leads

A liquid background works because it sits behind a clear layer of content with enough contrast to stay readable. The text, buttons, and key elements always come first in the visual hierarchy. The animation adds atmosphere underneath them without ever competing for the main role.

03

Color sets the entire mood

The specific colors in the background do most of the emotional work — teal and green feel fresh and calm, purples and blues feel premium and techy, warm oranges and pinks feel energetic and bold. Picking the right color palette for your background matters more than any other single decision, because it sets the feeling of the whole page before anyone reads a word.

04 · Use With Claude / Cursor
Claude
01Click 'Customize', then go to 'Skills'
02Go to 'Create Skills' and upload the skill.md file
03Put the design.md file in your project's knowledge base
04Mention the skill name as you build — Claude applies it automatically
Cursor
01Place SKILL.md and DESIGN.md in your repo root
02Open .cursor/rules and add @SKILL.md @DESIGN.md
03Restart Cursor for the rules to apply
04Build normally — mention the skill name to invoke it automatically
★ PRO TIP

Before building with Claude Code, drop SKILL.md and DESIGN.md into Claude Design first. Use it to generate mockups and nail the visual direction — then hand those references to Claude Code. You'll get significantly higher quality output than going straight to code.

05 · Watch Out For
! WARNING
Text readability on the moving background
Shifting colors mean shifting contrast, so text that's readable one second can wash out the next. Add a subtle dark overlay or a frosted panel behind any text that sits on the background.
! WARNING
Too much movement or too much color
A background that moves fast or uses too many clashing colors goes from premium to dizzying real quick. Keep the motion slow and the palette to two or three colors that blend well.
! WARNING
Performance on mobile
Real-time shaders run on the GPU and can heat up phones or drain battery. Make sure the effect is toned down or paused on mobile, and always respect reduced-motion settings for people who need them.
! WARNING
Using it on every section
A liquid background is a hero moment, not a whole-site treatment. Putting it behind every section makes the page exhausting and kills the impact of the one place it actually matters.
● 07 · Download

Beautiful designs in minutes.

Drop them into your Claude project or Cursor rules and build normally. No CLI, no package manager, no setup.

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