The primary Three.js Convention is getting nearer, and there are nonetheless extra folks to satisfy earlier than everybody heads to Paris.
In our first have a look at the lineup, we requested a number of the audio system what they’ve been constructing, exploring, and excited to carry to the convention. Since then, extra solutions have are available in, giving us one other glimpse into the folks behind the talks and the concepts they’re bringing with them.
And for those who’ve been excited about becoming a member of them in Paris, now’s a reasonably good time to make it official. Codrops readers can get 15% off their tickets with the code CODROPS.
Right here’s the total lineup, adopted by one other spherical of speaker insights.
- Mr.doob (Three.js developer)
- Bruno Simon (Three.js Journey)
- Cassie Evans (GSAP)
- Edan Kwan (Lusion)
- Renaud Rohlinger (Utsubo)
- Célia Lopez (OFF+BRAND)
- Anderson Mancini (Neotix)
- Thomas Nattestad & Natalia Markoborodova (Google)
- Jean Carlo Deconto (a.okay.a. sunag, TSL developer)
- Robin Payot (Zelda TSL)
- Romain Briaux & Julie Marting (Hervé Studio)
- Damien Mortini (Shopify)
- Patrick Heng & Justine Soulié (Ponpon Mania)
- Vicente Lucendo (Abeto)
- Kim Lê Boutin (loadmo.re)
- Daria Nevezhyna (Rive Ambassador)
- Antoine Ménard (Merci Michel)
- Dennis Smolek (R3F Core Crew)
- Kris Baumgartner (Poimandres)
- Lovis Odin (fal.ai)
- Cassandre Lugay (Interactive Designer, Second Manufacturing unit)
- Misha Kiiatkin (Technical Artist, edclub)
- Sean Looper (CTO, Miris)
And now, onto the audio system. Listed here are the newest solutions from a number of the folks on the point of head to Paris.
Antoine Ménard
In the meanwhile, an enormous a part of Antoine Ménard’s mind area is taken up by getting ready his speak for the Three.js Convention. However interactive storytelling has been a continuing obsession for him, particularly the query of how new applied sciences can open up recent methods to inform tales on the net.
At Merci-Michel, that curiosity typically takes the type of real-time 3D video games and worlds, combining technical depth and realism with a extra creative, illustrative strategy. In Paris, Antoine will take us behind the scenes of that course of, sharing a couple of secrets and techniques and a sneak peek at a number of the tasks the group has coming this fall.
A kind of tasks is a browser-based F1 sport for an iconic model, which has grow to be an particularly enjoyable artistic and technical playground. He’s trying ahead to exhibiting the way it got here collectively throughout his speak.
And if you need a style of the group’s work proper now, take a look at No Mercy Michel, already featured on the Three.js homepage. You would possibly even meet Antoine’s bot, King Antoine. He talks an enormous sport, however he’s completely horrible.
Lovis Odin
Lovis Odin’s work sits proper on the intersection of 3D and generative fashions. As a Artistic Engineer at fal, he spends his time exploring the broader generative media panorama, constructing and optimizing ComfyUI pipelines, and serving to artistic groups carry these instruments into manufacturing. Currently, he’s been significantly all for utilizing Three.js scenes and Gaussian splats as coaching information, giving video fashions entry to actual geometry and digital camera motion as a substitute of getting to guess.
For his Paris speak, Lovis needs to point out what occurs if you deal with a Three.js scene as mannequin coaching information. His course of begins with a 3D scene or splat, turns it into an artificial dataset, and makes use of that information to coach a LoRA that may rework a gray clay render right into a photorealistic video whereas preserving the unique digital camera transfer.
His newest experiment is a render-to-real LoRA for video, educated from round 2,000 artificial pairs and curated right down to roughly 200 helpful examples. Alongside that, he’s been constructing customized ComfyUI pipelines and mannequin endpoints at fal, experimenting with open-source LoRAs, and dealing on a holographic buying and selling card generator that turns a photograph right into a 3D mesh and animated card. He’s additionally at present trying into 4D Gaussian Splatting datasets to push the 3D-to-video facet additional.
One in all his favorite experiments is his multi-angle digital camera management LoRA, constructed from 3,000+ Gaussian Splatting renders throughout 96 digital camera positions. The entire dataset was generated immediately from a Three.js scene, with no handbook annotation or scraping. You may discover the open-source LoRA on Hugging Face. The experiment additionally taught him an sudden lesson: fairly renders aren’t essentially higher coaching information. His intentionally ugly, artificial clay renders really produced higher fashions.
Cassandre Leguay
Currently, Cassandre Leguay has been discovering inspiration by stepping away from the display screen and spending time outside. Path operating has grow to be a means for her to reconnect along with her sensitivity and creativity, which she brings again into her work designing immersive experiences.
That shift towards the bodily world has additionally formed her work since becoming a member of Second Manufacturing unit. Engaged on tasks impressed by stay leisure has modified how she thinks about consumer expertise throughout bodily and digital areas. Just lately, she and her designer colleagues took that considering right into a vibe coding sport jam, creating working prototypes for interactive video games within the bodily world. The pace and autonomy of the method made it attainable to check concepts shortly and see the place they might go.
And when Cassandre is designing an interplay for an set up, there’s a superb probability she’ll be standing up and transferring her palms by way of the air like a mime, performing out the expertise she’s imagining. “Out of context, although… it could look fairly unusual.”
Renaud Rohlinger
Renaud Rohlinger has been excited about what occurs when efficiency, Gaussian Splatting, and WebGPU all collide. With WebGPU transferring extra of the heavy lifting off the CPU, splatting makes for a very good stress take a look at, with tons of of 1000’s of primitives needing to be sorted each body. A lot of his time goes into determining the place the body time is definitely going, which, as he places it, is “by no means the place I assumed.”
He’s additionally been experimenting with Gaussian Splatting and TSL precompilation, exploring how Three.js’ Node Materials System can skip the same old construct/buildAsync step.
As for his Paris teaser? “ enhance your efficiency in Three.js in a non-trivial powerpoint/keynote format!” We’ll let him clarify that one.
And after watching an AI go utterly off the rails for hours, Renaud has developed a easy debugging ritual: “What’s the earlier than/after standing?”
Kim Lê Boutin
Kim Lê Boutin’s consideration is at present on New Methods of Seeing, the pageant she based in Paris in 2025. Impressed by John Berger’s 1972 guide and its questions round how know-how shapes the best way we have a look at photographs, the pageant brings artists, designers, researchers, and artistic technologists into the identical dialog. After its first version throughout Paris Artwork Week, Kim is now deep into shaping the second. Go to New Methods of Seeing →
Her Three.js story goes again to 2012, when she got here to the know-how from style artwork route, at a time when the immersive web site was nonetheless one thing of an anomaly. Since then, immersion has grow to be the norm, from AR and VR to combined actuality and sensible glasses. That shift led her to develop her concept of “Optimistic Friction” and launch loadmo.re, a curated index of non-standard cell interfaces. Her speak in Paris will hint that journey, from experiments at KENZO to loadmo.re and New Methods of Seeing, asking the place designers can nonetheless introduce friction now that seamlessness has grow to be the default.
She’s additionally been deep in a analysis rabbit gap for a chat commissioned by manufacturing firm DIVISION, tracing the historical past of AI from the Dartmouth Summer time Analysis Mission in 1956 to as we speak and looking out on the cultural narratives that formed the sphere alongside the best way. She’s now turning that analysis into an essay.
For one thing a bit extra visible, Kim factors to La Voie des Fleurs, an set up inbuilt Three.js by makio68 and proven on the Expanded Media Artwork Biennale in Budapest. Guests create a digital floral association impressed by ikebana, however solely after sitting by way of a guided meditation. The pause is a part of the work: by the point guests are allowed to the touch something, they’ve already approached the expertise in a different way.
Misha Kiiatkin
Misha Kiiatkin has simply completed a run of tasks constructed with native Three.js and R3F and is able to dive into TSL and WebGPU. He’s excited by how shut the visible potentialities are attending to the sort of efficiency related to engines like Unreal or Unity. He’s additionally been spending time on 3D animation, exploring make motion really feel extra pure and convincing. For Misha, that’s an enormous a part of what makes a sport really feel alive.
At edclub, experiments with hand-painted fashions grew into a completely new sport constructed round hand-painted belongings. It’s a mode he not often sees in Three.js video games, and one which comes with loads of sensible questions round time, visible outcomes, and efficiency. His speak in Paris will reveal the pipeline behind the undertaking, combining widespread approaches to creating and delivering hand-painted belongings with their Three.js-specific insights.
He’s additionally been engaged on “threepack”, a small library constructed round a conveyable format for transferring Three.js objects between utterly totally different tasks. What began as a private software for reusing belongings has grown right into a approach to change advanced objects and full scenes with out adapting them to a brand new code construction, whereas maintaining supplies, animations, shaders, and extra intact.
One undertaking specifically holds a particular place for him. For the Three.js Journey Problem, Misha ready his fashions earlier than leaving for 2 weeks in Japan, then spent your complete journey portray the scene on an iPad with Procreate. When he returned and added the textures, he realized the undertaking had grow to be greater than a visible train. He might see a narrative and feelings in each a part of it. “I really had a sense that I’ve constructed my very own home.” See the undertaking →
Damien Mortini
Damien Mortini is looking forward to a world the place AR glasses might lastly be ok to exchange our telephones and laptops. He’s excited by the thought of making away from the pc, standing, transferring round, speaking, and seeing concepts come to life round him in actual time. He additionally believes the net may have a serious function to play on this subsequent shift.
That curiosity has been driving Damien’s experiments with new methods to create and code for years. From adaptive nodes and pure language to cell interfaces and coding by voice with only a pair of earphones, he’s been exploring how far these approaches can go together with AI, Three.js, and TSL. And when he takes the stage in Paris, he’ll ask a easy query: “The instruments we use, and particularly Three.js, are implausible. However is that this actually solely about tech?”
His strategy to constructing additionally comes again to maintaining issues small and environment friendly. He shared this tiny Sign class as a superb instance:
class Sign extends Set {
dispatch(worth) {
for (const callback of this) callback(worth);
}
}For Damien, more often than not we don’t want a 14 kB library for one thing that may be inbuilt a couple of strains. And with AI making it simpler to dissect a library, perceive the way it works, be taught to construct it your self, and tailor it to your wants, he sees a possibility for our subsequent tasks to be lighter and quicker.
Dennis Smolek
Dennis Smolek has been targeted on bringing the sort of instruments and frameworks normally related to native improvement to the net. Currently, that has meant working with FSR upscalers, OIDN denoisers, Unreal Sky, and extra, alongside updates to the org’s libraries.
He’s additionally spent a lot of the previous 12 months enhancing the developer expertise round R3F v10, which he describes as a extremely succesful platform for constructing actual functions and tasks. On the convention, he’ll speak about that work, in addition to the group and the place he sees it heading subsequent.
Pipelines have been one other huge focus currently. Dennis has been experimenting with applied sciences like FSR3 and totally different approaches to international illumination, with the aim of bringing more and more formidable viewers and instruments to the browser. His intention is easy: to see what’s attainable when web-based experiences begin getting nearer to what native functions can do.
See You in Paris
That’s one other have a look at the folks behind the lineup, and there’s nonetheless loads extra ready in Paris. From new methods of constructing with Three.js to experiments that push what’s attainable within the browser, this primary convention is bringing collectively a neighborhood with lots to share.
When you’ve been excited about becoming a member of, it is a fairly good time to make it official. Codrops readers can get 15% off tickets with the code CODROPS.
