The critic, round 1

Peony & Willow carries over the trevor-noah grammar well: navy and charcoal chapters, a pink edge-to-edge wordmark, cream pills, the numbered footer pill with a sticker and a speech bubble, and rebus titles. The twist is real: a torn kraft shell stands in for the head, and a single engine draws the paper cross-sections, the long-exposure photos and the live sky. The shells and book pages are the most finished. It is held back by the home page. The hero shell is a flat, faceted bowl with thin canvas sparks, where trevor has rich 3D props bursting out of the tear. The finale and the bench sky read washed-out or empty. The chrome collides with text on the phone. Two overflow failures cost technical points. Solid 7: cohesive and charming, but not yet Site of the Day finish.

• A clear, fitting twist: the torn kraft shell as the hero's 'head', with the burst coming out of the tear, and the loader's shell handing off into the same hero shell (motion_intro frames 1–7). Nice counter steps 0→73→98→100 in pink.
• A procedural firework engine that makes believable long-exposure photo stickers with tree lines and harbour reflections. Each of the nine shells looks different (peony, crossette, ring, kamuro, pistil) and they make convincing image content without stock photos.
• The shells page: the 'Our shells' rebus with the kraft sphere as the O, then alternating navy and charcoal detail blocks joined by torn-paper edges. Each block pairs a photo sticker with an annotated cross-section, Kalam notes and a Space Mono spec table. This is the best page on the site.