// studio
About
Art, design, and engineering — one team building interactive experiences end to end.
We work where visual art meets software — and we don’t hand off between the two.
Lightshade Creative is a creative-development studio. We design and build generative pieces, realtime installations, and the systems that run them — one team taking a piece from first concept through to something that ships and holds up in the room.
// The practice
Visual art
Generative and audio-reactive pieces made in TouchDesigner, shared as an ongoing archive on Instagram — several rebuilt as live WebGL demos on this site.
Realtime installations
Sensor-driven, responsive environments for events, galleries, and spaces — built to run all day and hold up in the room.
Client software
Bespoke web and creative-coding builds with a real engineering bar — sites, tools, and 3D experiences engineered to last.
The full archive of pieces lives on Instagram.
// How we work
We treat the visual layer as content, not decoration — the art participates in telling the story rather than sitting behind it. And we hold a real engineering bar underneath the craft: robust technical systems designed to keep production up at night, not you.
Studios usually sit on one side of the line — an art collective or a dev shop. We work on both, so an idea doesn’t get handed off and diluted between them.
// Where we are
Based in Vancouver, we work with clients wherever the projects take us. If you’re making something interactive — a piece, an installation, or software — tell us about it.
Studio facts
- Base
- Vancouver, BC
- Practice
- Art
- Installations
- Software
- Formats
- WebGL
- TouchDesigner
- GLSL
- Archive
- @lightshade_creative
- Inquiries
- Start a project