Independent creative engineering

Ambitious ideas.
Remarkable products.

I design and build creative tools, from the first experiment to the finished product.

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Glass iris framing a scene study — Iris controls

01 / Projects & experimentsArticles & experiments

Selected experiments.

Make something, try a control or take a closer look at how it works.

Drop Dead Gourdgeous

Shape, carve, paint and light a pumpkin in your browser.

Work in progress

Try the pumpkin maker How it works

Glass controls set into a weathered panel, with moss along its edges

Moss controls

Press the glass keys, turn the knob and move the slider. Each knob mode remembers its own value.

Personal interaction experiment

Try the controls How it works

Articles & experiments

How the tools work, and what we learned from building them.

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The cream-gel mascot smiling beneath a yellow umbrella, held by one curling arm on the rainy street

Building an expressive Giant Aperture mascot

Article · Character animation

How one eye, a soft body and fourteen acting studies became separate controls for expression and attention.

Running a 3D pumpkin app

Article · App lifecycle

Late edits, shader preparation and resource cleanup: the work around drawing a pumpkin, and how we checked the pauses and memory.

Painting a character

Article · Character painting

Find why a surface has no paint source, then fill across UV seams without borrowing colour from the wrong neighbour.

Software design
and development.

I work across design, development and research to figure out the difficult parts and build something useful.

Creative applications

Tools for making and exploring, with controls that put creative choices in your hands.

Product development

Try the core idea, then carry it into a product with design and engineering together.

Research engineering

Build an experiment to find out whether a difficult technical idea will work.

AI development & consulting

Evaluate models, connect them to useful tools and automate repetitive work.

03 / A lighter experiment

Explore the
shapes.

Thirteen shapes use the same set of lines. Drag to turn the sculpture, or choose another shape and watch it change.

How the sculpture works

13 shapes. Drag to turn.

Choose a form

Choose a form 02 / 13

Drag to turn. Click to transform. Arrow keys turn it, too.

04 / About Shaun

Designing and
building software.

I like tools that help you try an idea, see what happens and keep shaping the result.

Creative applications are my main focus. I also work on software products, applied AI and technical questions across fields.

Often the interesting question is how much a simple control can let you do.

Working together

hello@giantaperture.com

Ambitious ideas.Remarkable products.