October 10, 2022

33 AMAZING Examples of 3D CSS illustrations

Specialized editors are often used to create 3D illustrations, but did you know that, with the right skills, you can create 3D drawings with just HTML and CSS?

In this post, you'll discover what's possible with 33 examples of amazing 3D CSS illustrations.

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3D Stack Overflow

A Codepen of a 3D logo of the Stack Overflow logo with an eye-catching animation.

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Hawaii Mountains CSS Illustration codepen

Hawaii Mountains (SVG + CSS)

An illustration of a map of the Hawaii mountains with a 3D clever hover effect without any Javascript.

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Spirited Away Bathhouse (Aburaya) - 3D CSS illustration

3D Spirited Away Bathhouse

A pure CSS illustration of a Spirited Away bathhouse with a rotation hover effect.

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Responsive Houdini 3D Carousel illustration with CSS

Responsive Houdini 3D Carousel

A CSS illustration of a responsive 3D Houdini carousel with a rotation animation.

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SMatrix of cube with one element CSS abstract illustration

Matrix of a cube with one element

A stunning abstract illustration in pure CSS using only a div container.

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Isometric Color Picker CSS illustration

Isometric Color Picker

A Codepen CSS illustration of an isometric color picker with animation when clicking on each color.

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Shiny Debit Card Codepen

Shiny Debit Card

A Codepen of a shiny debit card illustration with a 3D effect just using CSS and HTML.

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Cubic clock 3d Codepen

Cubic clock

A CodePen of a 3D cubic clock with impressive animation on the transition of each digit.

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3D glass weather icons code snippet CodePen

3D glass weather icons

A CodePen with 4 beautiful 3D weather icons with a glass effect a nice animation, and a great result without using JS.

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SVG play buttons code snippets CodePen

SVG play buttons

This CodePen is a pretty 3D SVG illustration of a play button with a lighting effect on hover.

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3D CSS technoblade code snippet CodePen

3D CSS Technoblade

A CodePen of an animated CSS 3D illustration of the Minecraft character from YouTuber Technoblade.

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Pikachu in 3D box CodePen

Pikachu in a 3D box

This CodePen is a Pikachu that comes out of a 3D box by pressing the box and only with CSS and HTML.

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Marbles art code snippet CodePen

Marbles art

A code snippet of a 3D illustration of an abstract marble artwork built only with CSS and HTML.

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Pure CSS Mario 64 in 3D code snippet CodePen

Pure CSS Mario 64 in 3D

In this CodePen you will find a 3D Mario illustration that follows the cursor with his eyes and without a single line of JavaScript!

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3D Glowing liquid in bottle code snippet CodePen

3D Glowing liquid in bottle

A CodePen with a 3D CSS illustration of a bottle with a glowing liquid that changes color from time to time in a smooth transition.

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CSS 3D smoking pipe code snippet CodePen

CSS 3D smoking pipe

A CodePen code snippet of a 3D smoking pipe with a parallax hover effect, is impressive for not using a single line of JavaScript.

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Stapler CodePen code fragment

Stapler

A CodePen of a detailed 3D stapler made with a single div.

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Noisy cube code fragment

Noisy cube

A code fragment of a 3D illustration of a cube with eye-catching animation and hover effect with only HTML/CSS.

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3D Player with pure CSS CodePen

3D Player with pure CSS

A CodePen of a nice 3D recorder made with CSS that plays music at the touch of a button.

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3d Modern house code fragment

Modern House

A code snippet of a modern 3D house with a nice perspective hover animation.

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CSS mechanical keyboard code fragment

CSS mechanical keyboard

A 3D CSS illustration of a mechanical keyboard with sound and animation when clicking.

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City life with CSS code snippet

City life with CSS

A code snippet of a 3D illustration of a building with a day and night theme just using HTML and CSS.

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Santa 3D CodePen

Santa 3D

A CodePen of a rotating 3D Santa Claus with a pixelated style without using JavaScript.

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3D number illustration code snippet

3D number illustration

A code snippet of a 3D illustration of a colorful number with a rotating animation.

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CSS Cube code snippet

CSS Cube

A code snippet of a 3D cube with a striped style and eye-catching animation.

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CSS pendulum waves code snippet

CSS pendulum waves

A code fragment of a 3D illustration of a pendulum with a rotating effect.

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3D Walkman code snippet

3D Walkman

A code snippet of a realistic 3D drawing of a Sony Walkman with a rotating effect.

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NightLight CodePen

NightLight

A Code snippet of a 3D illustration of a record player with a light effect coming out of it.

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Glittery bank card CodePen

Glittery bank card

A code fragment of a 3D bank card illustration with a shiny animation effect when rotating.

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Caterpillar triangle code snippet

Caterpillar triangle

A code snippet of a caterpillar made of 3D triangles with a neat animation and without using JavaScript.

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3D Camera Icons code snippet

3D Camera Icons

Two realistic 3D camera icons with different themes and smooth rotating animation.

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Optimus Prime with CSS illustration code fragment

Optimus Prime with CSS

A CSS 3D illustration of Optimus Prime with a smooth transforming animation.

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CSS 3D room illustration piece of code

CSS 3D room illustration

A piece of code displaying a remarkably realistic 3D room illustration crafted using only HTML and CSS.

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