colinfizgig · Maine

Colin Freeman

artist & technologist — Director of Technical Art at Paradowski Creative. I build award-winning immersive games, and I study why pictures are composed the way they are.

Play

• Above Par-adowski — Nine holes over a desert canyon in a 14 MB page — now with multiplayer across VR, desktop, and mobile.
• The Escape Artist — A narrative puzzle game — you are the muse, trapped inside the artist's own work.
• Purina Arena Pet Racing — Purina's first Roblox game — adopt, care for, and race virtual pets with friends.
• The Zoo, Mapped — The Saint Louis Zoo's official digital map — a hand-modeled 3D campus guiding visitors to animals, habitats, and events.
• Apart: A Poster Show — 150+ pandemic posters hung in a museum-scale WebXR gallery — every sale to WHO COVID-19 relief.
• Rat Race: Pizza Delivery — Deliver pizza as a rat across a rebuilt downtown St. Louis — a PvP race on a Fortnite island.

Research & writing

• The Visual Language of Reality — Why AR and VR demand a visual grammar of their own, distinct from cinematography. The seed of the research below.
• Interactive Narratives — Playable experiments in branching story — spatial, temporal, and plot-substitution narratives.
• The Parthenon Project — The Parthenon and its polychrome sculpture, explored in extended reality.
• The Story Behind The Escape Artist — Kent Bye's Voices of VR podcast on the making of a Polys WebXR Award winner.

Code & teaching

• Custom Hubs Components — Drop-in components that extend the Mozilla Hubs client without forking it.
• WebXR Tutorials — Building and optimizing immersive scenes for the open web — inspector workflows, big-scene performance.
• A-Frame Components — Reusable components for building VR scenes with A-Frame on the open web.
• YouTube Tutorials — Character pipelines and 3D workflows, with companion script repos on GitHub.

Elsewhere

gh/colinfizgig · in/colinfreeman · @colinfizgig.bsky.social · tv/colinfizgig · † paradowski.com · § resume · @ email