Testimonial Globe
A testimonial section built around a globe of images you can drag and spin, with frosted-glass quote cards floating over it. It drifts on its own, and on a phone it swaps to a lighter globe you swipe through.
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Where this component came from.
We built it for annnimate.com, our own site, and kept it in the library once it earned its place. The same code runs in production today.
How it's built.
The tricky part of a globe of images is spreading them evenly over the ball. Place them the obvious way and they bunch up at the top and bottom and leave gaps round the middle. So the planes are laid out on a spiral that winds around the sphere, which drops each one into its own patch of space - no clumps at the poles, no bald spots, every image with room to breathe as it turns.
It drifts slowly on its own and you can grab it and spin it faster - let go and it keeps going, easing down instead of stopping dead, so it feels like a real object with some weight. The testimonial cards sit over it as frosted glass so the globe stays alive and blurs through behind the words. That's why it's built in WebGL and not plain HTML - a sphere of moving, textured images kept smooth while you throw it around needs real rendering.
Past that it's yours. Drop in your own images and they fit whatever shape they are, put your own quotes on the cards, and set how fast it drifts and how much it carries after a throw. On a phone it swaps in a lighter globe and lets you swipe the cards, or you can turn the globe off and just stack them.
What you'll need.
Install
- GSAP
- ScrollTrigger
- three
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Frequently asked
- Does Testimonial Globe work with React and Vue?
- Testimonial Globe ships as React (Next.js included), Vue 3 (Nuxt included), plain HTML/CSS/JS - the same animation in each format. The React version uses the official useGSAP hook with cleanup handled; the Vue version is a real single-file component with <script setup>.
- Do I need GSAP to use Testimonial Globe?
- Yes. Testimonial Globe is built on GSAP directly, and GSAP has been 100% free for commercial use, including every plugin, since version 3.13. The component page lists exactly what to install.
- Can I customize Testimonial Globe without editing code?
- Testimonial Globe exposes 9 tunable controls in the Customize panel on this page - drag the values, watch the live preview respond, and the code you copy carries your exact settings.
- Is Testimonial Globe free?
- Testimonial Globe is part of the Annnimate Library, a paid subscription (from EUR 249/year). The live preview and customization run free on this page; the paste-ready code is for members.
- Can I use Testimonial Globe in client projects?
- Yes. The Annnimate license covers commercial and client work - ship Testimonial Globe on as many projects as you build, with no attribution required.
- Does Testimonial Globe respect prefers-reduced-motion?
- Yes. Every Annnimate component handles prefers-reduced-motion via gsap.matchMedia, so users who opt out of motion get an effectively instant, readable state.
