SINCE 2026
Apple
Sr Software Engineer (Front End - Real-Time 3D)
- Real-Time Graphics on the Web
- Editors for Motion Artists
- Creative Tech, Agency to Apple
- Physical Computing Meets Real-Time 3D
Creative Technologist · Apple · Tomorrow Evening
Colin Duffy
He follows real-time graphics from GLSL to Metal, and builds the editor at every stop.
Colin Duffy engineers real-time 3D at Apple and runs Tomorrow Evening, the creative-technology studio he founded in 2008 and never closed. He came up animating Flash banner ads at Los Angeles agencies — CP+B, R/GA, Deutsch — then rode the web onto WebGL, publishing open-source tooling like webgl-mograph and hermes. Lately he wires depth cameras and 3D-printed ESP32 controllers into Unreal Engine over WebSockets, closing the loop between the render and the physical world.
- 1,525GitHub contributions in a year
- 163GitHub stars across 28 repos
- 35stars on webgl-mograph
- 323followers on Bluesky
HAPPENING NOW
STANDING TODAY
SINCE 2020
The FWA
Judge
HOW THEY THINK4 BELIEFS
Four convictions explain two decades of following real-time graphics.
THE IMPACT
Everything he shipped, from a personal C++ framework to a WebGPU renderer.
EVERYTHING ELSE · 11 WORKS
THE TIMELINE
One craft — real-time graphics — followed from Flash to WebGL to Metal to Unreal.
The whole record, newest first – tap any moment and Aster tells the story.
2025-PRESENT
Real-time 3D, physical computing, and Apple
In 2025 Colin pushed real-time graphics off the screen — a Femtobolt/Kinect Azure body-tracking pipeline over WebSockets into Unreal Engine, a custom Unreal creative-coding plugin that starts (as always) with a tweening engine, and WebGPU output driving NeoPixel LEDs through a Teensy. In June 2026 he took the craft in-house as a real-time-3D engineer at Apple.
“Been mostly experimenting with C++/WebSockets in Unreal for creative technology tests involving multiple technologies but playing with more!”
2022-2024
WebGL motion graphics and open-source tooling
From 2022, while creative-technical lead at Wildlife, Colin poured his energy into open-source WebGL tooling at the height of the Three.js/Theatre.js ecosystem: webgl-mograph, a full real-time motion-graphics engine for the browser (35 stars); hermes, a live Three.js editor that grew a WebGPU renderer; and a cluster of editors, shader experiments, and utilities under Tomorrow Evening.
“Real-time Motion Graphics on the web using Three.js and Theatre”
2019-2021
Real-time graphics lead: AR, WebGL, and installations
Colin went native and real-time on device: Lead Graphics Engineer for AR on iOS in Swift and Metal at Mav Farm (2019–2020), then Lead Technologist at Anivive driving WebGL, Metal, Unity3D, and Vue/React. He became an FWA Judge in 2020, and open-sourced tomorrow_web — a 76-commit personal standard library underpinning his WebGL work.
2006-2018
Agency creative developer and studio founder
Colin came up through art school (Otis, Digital Media) into the Los Angeles agency world in the Flash/ActionScript era — animating banner ads and building AS3 frameworks at RED and Ted. Perez. He founded Tomorrow Evening in 2008 and kept it running through staff roles at CP+B, Deutsch, and R/GA, shipping HTML5 and openFrameworks work for Domino's, Airbnb, and Beats By Dre.