Wiggle Bones: Making Balloons Feel Alive

Sometimes you open up a website and it's so good that you're left wondering... how the heck did they pull that off?

In this episode the designer of the original Amie website, Xavier Jack (https://x.com/KMkota0), is going to give us a little tutorial of what it looks like to bring web experiences to life with 3D.

Some highlights:

- How he prototyped the viral Amie website

- How he made the Amie interactive balloons from scratch

- How he uses mental models to understand 3D design tools

- Amie.so (http://amie.so/)

- Desktop.fm (https://desktop.fm/)

- Three.tools (https://three.tools/)

- Shopify Winter 2026 https://shopify.com/editions/winter2026

- Wiggle bones https://wiggle.three.tools/docs/manual/getting-started

- Blender (3D modeling software)

- Three.js (JavaScript 3D library)