Cascade Land V2: a 3D card animation that lands on your real page grid
Cascade Land V2 is a high-energy scene where cards captured from your product fly in through a fast 3D camera move, land together as your real page grid, and then the camera zooms away. It is built for products full of things, such as galleries, libraries, catalogs and walls of generated work, where the point is how much there is.
The preview shows placeholder content. Your video uses your UI, words, logo and colors.
- Role
- Feature
- Length
- 6 seconds
- Uses
- Your real product UI
- Format
- 16:9, up to 4K
What it looks like
Cards from your page streak in through a fast, swooping 3D camera move. They land together in their true positions, so the scattered pieces become your real page grid, framed by the parts of the page that stay put. The moment the layout is whole, the camera pulls away at speed. It reads as variety and scale coming together into one platform, and it plays fast, bold and big.
It works late in the video as the climax right before the call to action, and it feels fast, bold and expensive.
Best for
- Building to the high point of a video right before the call to action
- Showing the size of a gallery, library or catalog in a few seconds
- Turning a wall of work your product made into energy
- Closing a long product section with a strong exit
What you add
- A page from your product laid out as a grid of cards
- Three to ten cards from that page, six or more for a full cascade
Capture tips
- Zoom the browser in as far as you can while everything you want in the shot still fits on screen. A bigger capture stays sharper in the video.
- Open a page built as a card grid, such as a dashboard, template gallery or asset library.
- Pick whole cards of a similar size in reading order, left to right and then top to bottom, and scroll so each one is fully on screen.
- Skip text, icons, small buttons, the sidebar and the top bar. The sidebar and top bar stay put as the frame the cards land in.
Videos this scene works in
Product launch video
The 30 to 45 second video for launch day: what it is, who it is for, why now.
Read the guideWebsite hero video
A silent, looping product video for the top of your homepage.
Read the guideSaaS promo video
A punchy promo for ads, social and email, built from your product.
Read the guidePairs well with
Ending
Call to Action
Call to Action is a call to action end screen: your logo appears, then a button that a cursor clicks, telling the viewer exactly what to do next.
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Rise & Reveal
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UI Unfold
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Questions
What kind of page does Cascade Land V2 need?
A page made of cards in a grid. Flat single-column lists and text-heavy pages do not work, because the effect depends on many cards landing into a layout.
How many cards should I select?
At least three and up to ten. Six to ten gives the fullest cascade.
Does it suit a calm, slow video?
Not really. It is fast and loud, so it fits an energetic script and works best as the high point late in the video.
Put Cascade Land V2 in your next video
Describe the video in a sentence. The Wevi Agent reads your site, captures your product, plans the scenes and renders with voiceover and music. Start free.
Or ask your assistant: Make a launch video for mysite.com with Wevi and open on the Cascade Land V2 scene