John Torbet
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AI CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST · INDIE GAME DEV · CAPE TOWN

I build worlds that move to music.

AI pipelines, games and spaces made with Blender, ComfyUI and Unreal Engine 5. Turn the sound on and the whole page listens.

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Haven Morning

Selected work

The Haven island at dusk with lit windowsThe Haven · E.V.E.AI SYSTEM [AMBR result still]AMBRAUDIO-REACTIVE AI [CLIPSMITH panel screenshot]CLIPSMITHAI TOOL PeeCee Critters battle screenPeeCee CrittersSTEAM · NOV 2026 GReLMaJ concept renderGReLMaJ: One Last CallIN DEVELOPMENT Camps Bay open-plan kitchen and living roomCamps Bay first floorINTERIOR Ferrari 812 head-on, 35mm filmFilm photography35MM Linen book titled Archive on a reading tableBrand & earlier workARCHIVE Gaming desk scene from this site's Games chapterMaking this siteCREATIVE TECH
01 — SYSTEMS

The Haven

Scroll and E.V.E. wakes the island, one department at a time, ending at E.V.E.'s clock tower. With sound on, every lit window pulses to the music.

AUDIO → DATA → VISUALS

AMBR

An audio-reactive AI video pipeline. Music drives generation and real-time visuals. Results shown, internals kept private.

[AMBR result clip]
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LONG VIDEO → SHORTS

CLIPSMITH

A clip bot that cuts long videos into short-form clips.

[before / after reel]
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LOCAL-FIRST AGENT OS

E.V.E.

Agents that sleep until needed, living in a 16-bit world called The Haven. The island above is its map.

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02 — GAMES

Two games, one desk

CONCEPT RENDER · NOT GAMEPLAY

GReLMaJ: One Last Call

Co-op survival of a night out, 1–5 players, Unreal Engine 5. In development.

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03 — SPACES

Camps Bay

Camps Bay first floor

Own project · open-plan living, island kitchen, stacking sea windows. Walkthrough rendered in Cycles.

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Janine Lazard

[SHOWN WITH CLIENT PERMISSION]

Design by Gen

[SHOWN WITH CLIENT PERMISSION]

04 — PHOTOGRAPHY

On film

Ferrari 812 Superfast, head-on, plate blurred
Green BMW M4, plate blurred
05 — ARCHIVE

Brand & earlier work

The book's pages are the archive: scrolling turns them. Here is the same list in plain text.

    ABOUT

    Designer's eye, engineer's habits.

    I'm John Torbet, a creative technologist in Cape Town. I came up through interior visualisation, graphic design and film photography, and now build AI pipelines, real-time 3D and small games, mostly solo, end to end.

    I like systems that make creative work repeatable: music that drives visuals, tools that turn hours of footage into posts, worlds generated from a map. I design how they look, then make them run.

    Tools

    • Blender (Cycles, Python)
    • Unreal Engine 5
    • ComfyUI
    • Python · JavaScript · three.js
    • Adobe CC · DaVinci Resolve [CHECK]

    Open to

    • Remote creative-technologist roles
    • AI video and real-time 3D projects
    • Interior and product visualisation

    Elsewhere

    Let's make something that listens.

    Open to remote creative-technologist roles and freelance work.

    JOHN TORBET · CAPE TOWN