First of all, I like the design. But about the animations...
Web browser engines are not particularly good in animation. I was viewing this with (not quite latest) Firefox and the animations were really choppy (with my less than 3GHz PC). As in really annoying and made user interaction next to impossible. Other browsers may work better.
Secondly, animation (especially in browsers) is very power consuming if you target mobile devices. Of course, this isn't something a web designer would have to care about, because unlike for "native" apps, you can't tell which web site was consuming all the battery. (and battery consumption means bad reviews in app stores)
I work for a mobile device company and I can tell you, for every minute a major web designer spends adding animation on a popular web site, a systems engineer spends an hour trying to optimize the power consumption (with changes to WebKit/Blink, device drivers and the kernel).
Web browsing power consumption is a major benchmark how device manufacturers choose their parts vendors. One of the key benchmarks is picojoules required to render nytimes.com front page. (this is ridiculous but that's how the industry works)
Quite simply: your design would be a lot better if you'd remove most (if not all) of the animations. Especially the mouse click circle (which appears so late it's distracting) and the things that scroll from the bottom (which scroll so choppily that it's annoying). They don't add anything to the usability of this site, on the contrary they make it work slowly.
Web browser engines are not particularly good in animation. I was viewing this with (not quite latest) Firefox and the animations were really choppy (with my less than 3GHz PC). As in really annoying and made user interaction next to impossible. Other browsers may work better.
Secondly, animation (especially in browsers) is very power consuming if you target mobile devices. Of course, this isn't something a web designer would have to care about, because unlike for "native" apps, you can't tell which web site was consuming all the battery. (and battery consumption means bad reviews in app stores)
I work for a mobile device company and I can tell you, for every minute a major web designer spends adding animation on a popular web site, a systems engineer spends an hour trying to optimize the power consumption (with changes to WebKit/Blink, device drivers and the kernel).
Web browsing power consumption is a major benchmark how device manufacturers choose their parts vendors. One of the key benchmarks is picojoules required to render nytimes.com front page. (this is ridiculous but that's how the industry works)
Quite simply: your design would be a lot better if you'd remove most (if not all) of the animations. Especially the mouse click circle (which appears so late it's distracting) and the things that scroll from the bottom (which scroll so choppily that it's annoying). They don't add anything to the usability of this site, on the contrary they make it work slowly.
Otherwise I like the aesthetic of your design.