Delicious food, racing simulators, and 3d printers

"Massive city with a rich culture, busy roads, delicious food, and endless creativity"

It's been almost three months since I came to Pakistan. Three months is a long time, a quarter of a year, yet it feels like so little time has passed, and there's still so much to do.

After taking a break from the career ladder, burning out while trying to make something work, and deciding to yolo life and move to Pakistan, I never thought I'd get to a point where I'm excited about every single day.

Even the low days feel fulfilling and complete. I don't know where this sense of fulfillment came from, but I'm grateful for it. It's a pretty random thing to share, but sometimes words resonate. Sometimes you feel validated because someone else is going through something similar.

So if you're stuck in life, if nothing makes sense and it feels like life has no purpose, just hang in there, buddy. Embrace your spiritual side, dive deep into theology and philosophy, strengthen your belief systems and ideologies, and then life feels even more complicated than before, haha.

Eventually things fall into place and start to open up. You feel like your test has finished, quite literally, and life feels meaningful again.

In that positive mindset, I came across a group of people who are creatively insane. I'm amazed by the talent around me, and their energy encourages me to hustle too. I recently became friends with the people behind a 3D studio.

I got a VIP tour of the startup, saw all the products, and watched things being printed right in front of me. Then I joined them at a client's location, where they were installing a custom cooling and ventilation solution for a car racing simulator gaming zone. There were 16 rigs, each fitted with 3D-printed cooling and ventilation kits.

They also had mascots, massive F1 cars, Lego figures, and a lot of other cool stuff. I've always been interested in 3D printing, but seeing the whole process and the finished pieces right in front of me on the same day wasn't how I expected to be introduced to the field, haha.

I got along really well with the business owners, and they told me about their struggles with online presence. They didn't have a proper marketing channel set up, and they needed a studio-designed website to showcase their work properly.

I always like challenges that involve design and motion, so I immediately took it on and started cooking up something unique. I spent a day researching, creating mood boards, figuring out brand guidelines and colours that could work, and then began coding.

The website

The first thing I wanted to get right was making the site feel like the studio. A regular grid of product photos wouldn't show what makes a 3D-printing studio interesting: the objects, the detail, and the process of making them. So the site leans into a dark, high-contrast visual identity, with a custom wordmark, bright accents, and motion throughout.

The project is built with Vite and Three.js. Rather than treating the 3D as a background decoration, the homepage uses it as a showroom: visitors can explore the products, switch between them, and see their descriptions and specifications alongside the models. There's also a separate Lineups page for the product collections and client work.

The 3D bits

Most of the showroom models are built procedurally in Three.js. The GTA VI clock is assembled from layered shapes, and the lightbox and keychains are represented as 3D product models too. The figurine is currently a concept model. The Drivehaus cooling unit is different: it's a real .glb model of the fan-and-duct assembly built for the sim rigs.

The showroom puts the models on a shared stage, scales and centres them to fit, and lets people rotate the view by dragging. The product information changes with the selected item, so the 3D view is connected to the actual things the studio makes rather than being there just to look cool.

That balance is what I wanted from the motion: make the site feel alive, but keep the work itself as the focus. It's early, and there's still a lot to refine, but this was a fun excuse to spend time with 3D again.

Anyway

A city full of inspiration, a room full of printers, 16 racing rigs getting custom cooling, and a new website taking shape. I went in curious about 3D printing and came out excited about the whole process, from the physical work to how you present it online.

That's what I've been working on so far.