Aleksandar Rodic
Founder at Nearest Neighbor
Belgrade, Central Serbia
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksandar Rodic is a founder and creative technologist based in Belgrade with 15 years of experience blending real-time graphics, visual effects, game development, and web engineering. Trained at Savannah College of Art and Design and with roles at Pixar, EA, Lucasfilm, Google and Adobe, he builds interactive 3D tools and experiments at the intersection of art and software. His open-source contributions include editor and workflow enhancements to the widely used three.js library, reflecting a focus on usability for real-time web graphics. Aleksandar’s work has been published and exhibited internationally, and he currently focuses on bleeding-edge web technologies and interactive, real-time graphics for both research and commercial projects. He’s open to short-term consulting engagements and brings an uncommon blend of studio-level visual craft and production-grade engineering.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MFA Visual Effects, MFA Visual Effects at Savannah College of Art and DesignAssistant in Natural Sciences and Information Technology, Assistant in Natural Sciences and Information Technology at XIII Belgrade High SchoolAss Bsc Audio and Video Technologies, Ass Bsc Audio and Video Technologies at School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Github Skills (5)
html10
threejs10
javascript10
webxr8
3d7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mrdoob/three.js
Jan 2013 - Apr 2022
JavaScript 3D Library.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 59 commits, 65 PRs in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandar primarily contributed to the `three.js` library, focusing on enhancing the editor functionality. Their work includes implementing snapping features for object manipulation, modifying the toolbar for axis control, and reorganizing the loading logic within the editor. These changes improved the editor's usability and workflow, by added key functionality such as the ability to load local storage data.
virtual-realitysvgwebglcanvasjavascript
io-gui/three-ui
Oct 2018 - Jul 2024
UI system for three.js built with Io-GUI.
Contributions:2 PRs, 165 pushes, 13 branches in 5 years 9 months
webglguithreejsthree-jssystem-ui
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