Spline, Womp and Unicorn Studio Updates...

Making websites with Lovable gems

Hey you beautiful ball of skin and bones, hope everything is ticking along alright in run up to Christmas and you’re not waking up in cold sweats thinking about spending extended periods of time with family…

Now, some bits and bobettes from this bizarre online world.

3 Things You Might Have Missed From The Website World

1) Hana now has 3D shape effects

So, reminder - Hana is Spline’s creation.

Everyone complained about how slow Spline was to load on websites. Another problem Spline faced:

Spline’s core product:

• Web-based true 3D

• Scene graph, lights, cameras, meshes

• Powerful but heavy and complex for many designers

Meanwhile, Rive was winning mindshare because it:

• Felt designer-native

• Was fast, lightweight, and animation-first

• Worked beautifully for UI, micro-interactions, and product polish

Designers were saying:

“I don’t want a 3D scene. I just want motion and depth that feels premium.”

Spline couldn’t solve this inside Spline without:

• Making the UI more complex

• Slowing down their 3D-first roadmap

• Diluting their identity as a real 3D tool

Spline chose product separation.

Strategic decision:

• Spline stays 3D-engine-first

• Hana becomes motion-and-effects-first

This mirrors what Figma did with:

• Figma → FigJam

• Adobe → After Effects vs Illustrator

👉 Same company, different mental models.

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2) Womp is leaning heavily into AI-powered 3D creation: Womp Spark

Got an idea? Type a text based prompt and get a image that can then be turned in to 3D. It’s actually wild.

How it works (conceptually)

1. You prompt it

   • Example: “A phone stand with a cable slot and 15° viewing angle”

2. Spark interprets intent

   • Functional constraints

   • Proportions

   • Printability (thickness, solidity)

3. It generates real geometry

   • Not a mesh hallucination

   • Designed to be edited in Womp

4. You refine it

   • Adjust dimensions

   • Boolean edits

   • Add/remove features

5. You export or print

   • STL or direct print ordering via Womp

This is the key difference from most AI-3D tools.

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3) Unicorn Studio now has 3D models

This is insane.

What Unicorn Studio is (baseline)

Unicorn Studio is:

• A web animation & interaction tool

• Focused on scroll, hover, entrance, and UI motion

• Used mainly for marketing sites, landing pages, and product pages

• Think of it as “After Effects for the web”, but designer-friendly

Until recently, it was largely 2D-first.

Unicorn Studio now allows you to:

• Import 3D models (typically glTF / GLB)

• Place them inside a layout like any other visual element

• Animate them using Unicorn’s timeline, scroll, and interaction system

Crucially:

Unicorn Studio is not trying to become Spline, Blender, or Womp.

It’s about using 3D, not authoring 3D.

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I MEAN COME ON.

So much to be excited about - so many tools to explore. So much play to be had!

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I’m making an app - it’s ugly but it works (kind of)

It’s called Kodo (which means heartbeat / pulse in Japanese)

Think Duolingo for fitness.

I want to create an accountability app to exercise little and often.

Not a gym bro app.

You can invite a small group of friends to create a “pod,” and then you do workouts to gain points. There’s badges, streaks and, eventually, discount codes.

Let’s see where it goes.

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Lovable x Webflow

So if you scroll down on this client site (for a photographer and videographer), you will reach this:

Bring the key to the lock and it will open this - a pin board where website visitors can leave a note for Wil!

I think as we get deeper and deeper in to text prompts websites, websites will become more and more fun and personalised.

So much fun to explore these different avenues.

Who knows where this will all go in 2026…

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What are you building?

Jack