Maxime

added some of my favorite work of 2025 to my personal website along with some small yet satisfying updates → maximeheckel.com

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

@amfonte coward as always

@MaximeHeckel Aaaaand now the post is deleted. Guess they were sick of getting heat.

getting really tired of this trend of not directly crediting the people behind cool work like this especially when, like here, it’s a buddy of mine not being credited i also got to work next to him and it’s anything but vibe coding see his work at: instagram.com/ojrgb

@heyrikin it’s literally just this these days, always “someone built”, who exactly, you’ll never know

@MaximeHeckel It's absolutely gross the amount of content stealing accounts there are rn

@bnj as always the classic “someone built” on top of that i know the guy and he’s super talented

@amfonte so much effort put into this, i’m impressed haha

@MaximeHeckel Don’t worry, it took her a full day + to add their Instagram. lol so shameful.

@mingjie +700% as i'm writing this, what a joke

1) what you can just build things?

@usewonder such a nice little touch

Every time you switch between design and code, you lose something, your momentum, your fidelity, or your vision. The gap between what you designed and what ships has always been the cost of building. That’s why we built Wonder, a design tool where everything you create is backed by real code. Public Alpha is now live at wonder.design

@DanHollick it was very easy to get sick shots for this project

@MaximeHeckel This looks epic

outline for my upcoming, and very much on theme, article on atmospheric scattering felt inspired and made posters with photos of actual renders made with the techniques you’ll learn in it :) very excited for this one

@dghez_ @KennyPirman if you want to render space stuff this will be for you

@MaximeHeckel @KennyPirman Dunno what is this, but is gorgeous

@nonzeroexitcode it’s 90% post-pro here

@nonzeroexitcode sphere geo + post pro fx here but it’s totally optional you could get away doing everything in a fragment shader

@KennyPirman good ol’ trusty Noise pass to hide my mess

@MaximeHeckel the noise grain on these images looks amazing

@marijanapav 🫶 need to start writing and building the experience until yesterday late in the night it still wasn’t working

@MaximeHeckel looove it, cant wait for the article!

@Nomandsign oh hell yeah! any interesting algorithm behind the generation featured in the blog post?

One thing led to another and I ended up building a delightful map builder. checkout the full interactive case study: iamnoman.com/transit

@s3ththompson looking forward to reading about this!

@MaximeHeckel Will share more technical details soon!

Teaser from a new project that involves tiny 3d models of NYC buildings...

@DanHollick congrats! (and of course haha)

first day