Flying Posters
Posters hang in a tunnel of 3D space and fly past the camera as you scroll, drag or wait, looping seamlessly with the nearest always drawn on top.
- Category: Display
- Licence: Charcoal UI Pro
- Built with: React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, Motion
- Dependencies: motion, clsx, tailwind-merge
Examples
Flying Posters
API reference
| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
images | string[] | — | |
speed | number | 40 | Idle travel per second. |
depth | number | 2400 | Tunnel depth in px. |
drag | boolean | true | |
size | number | 180 | Poster width in px. |
className | string | — |
About Flying Posters
Flying Posters hangs posters in a tunnel of 3D space that fly past the camera as you scroll, drag or wait, looping seamlessly with the nearest poster always on top.
Flying Posters is a display component for React 19, styled with Tailwind CSS 4 and animated with Motion. It drops into Next.js, Vite, Remix or Astro through the shadcn CLI as a single file you own.
When to use Flying Posters
- Film and event sites.
- Portfolio intros.
- Music and art releases.
- Immersive campaign pages.
How it works
Each poster has a fixed depth that wraps around the tunnel, and z-order is sorted every frame. Scroll and drag add velocity that decays smoothly.
Interactive parts are buttons or links with accessible names, decorative layers are hidden from assistive tech, and everything is reachable by keyboard. With prefers-reduced-motion on, it holds still or settles instantly instead of animating.
Customizing Flying Posters
Every prop is documented in the API reference above with its type and default. The ones you will reach for first are listed here.
The Customize panel next to the preview lets you change speed, depth, drag live, and the Code tab updates to match, so the snippet you copy already carries your values.
- images (string[]).
- speed (number, default 40): Idle travel per second.
- depth (number, default 2400): Tunnel depth in px.
- drag (boolean, default true).
- size (number, default 180): Poster width in px.
Goes well with Flying Posters
These display pieces share its tokens and motion language, so they sit together on one page without clashing.
- Tilt Card: A 3D tilt card for React that leans toward the pointer with a moving glare
- Spotlight Card: A React spotlight card: an accent glow follows the pointer across card and border
- Sortable List: A drag-to-reorder React list with lifted shadows and keyboard sorting
- Card Stack: A swipeable React card stack where the next card rises to meet you
- Image Compare: A React before and after image comparison slider you can drag anywhere
Install Flying Posters
npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/flying-postersFlying Posters is part of Charcoal UI Pro. One seat unlocks all 300 Pro components, 107 landing-page sections and 100 full templates, for every personal and client project, with updates included. Add the @charcoal registry once with your access token, then the command above copies flying-posters.tsx into components/ui and installs clsx, tailwind-merge.
You own the file you install: no runtime package, no lock-in, nothing to keep in sync. Change it however your product needs.
See Charcoal UI Pro pricing · Pro setup
Frequently asked questions
- Can people fly through with the mouse wheel?
- Yes. Wheel and drag both add speed, which decays smoothly back to the idle drift.
- How do I install Flying Posters?
- Flying Posters is part of Charcoal UI Pro. Add the @charcoal registry to components.json with your access token, then run npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/flying-posters. It copies flying-posters.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge.
- Is Flying Posters free for commercial use?
- Flying Posters needs a Charcoal UI Pro seat, monthly or a one-time lifetime price. A seat covers unlimited personal and commercial projects, including client work, and every future Pro component.
- Does Flying Posters work with Next.js?
- Yes. It is a client component for React 19 styled with Tailwind CSS 4, so it works in the Next.js App Router and Pages Router, Vite, Remix and Astro.
- Can an AI coding agent install Flying Posters?
- Yes. Connect the Charcoal UI MCP server (https://charcoalui.com/mcp) to Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client; get_component returns Flying Posters's props and get_install_command returns the exact command.