Creating the Impossible: How I Brought a Transparent Animation to the Metaverse

Mad Lips 21 - Digital art engineering.

In just a few intense days, I became obsessed with one goal: to make an animation that wasn’t confined by a rectangle, a background, or the visual limits most digital formats impose. I wanted it to exist freely—alive, floating, and breathing within a virtual space. I didn’t want it to sit on a wall. I wanted it to become part of the world.

And now, it exists. A fully transparent, ultra-light .webm animation, under 8MB, running flawlessly on Oncyber, one of the most immersive platforms in Web3.

Let me be clear: this was not easy. I’m not talking about dragging a file into a folder. I’m talking about wrestling with format limitations, compression constraints, incompatible software, unpredictable render issues, alpha channel misfires, and dead ends that would make most people give up or settle for a flat video.

But I didn’t. I kept going. I tested. I failed. I re-rendered. I explored formats and pipelines that are rarely used together, because I had something specific in mind, and no shortcut was going to get me there.

This isn’t something you can fake with a filter. This is engineering meets art. And it’s something very few people, especially in the creative Web3 space, are doing. Not because they can’t, but because the process is tedious, fragmented, and deeply technical. It’s not user-friendly. And frankly? That’s what makes it so powerful.

To see a transparent animation—truly transparent, not keyed-out or masked—living inside a metaverse space, reacting to the light, merging with the architecture, is something I still can’t fully describe. But I built it. I shaped every frame. And I made it light enough to run in real time with no quality loss, no glitching, and no compromise.

I created this for people who believe the metaverse deserves more than slideshows and static NFTs. I created it because Web3 is not just about ownership. It’s about presence.

This is Mad Lips 21. And this is just the beginning.

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The link will be available soon to help you experience the work in the metaverse.