PACALIX, by Simon Maxam. Ideas, built in 3D.
by Simon Maxam
In the beginning
Every idea starts
with a question.
Momentum
An idea moves
from hand to hand.
Build
it.
It is dark in here. Bring light.
We make things you can walk into, hold, and play.
Websites that feel like places.
Details you only find by looking.
Particles with a purpose, not decoration.
Built to be found by the curious.
Look closer.
Selected work
Things we have shipped.
Keep scrolling. The strip moves sideways.
A pizza menu you can pick apart: a 3D pie, slices to pull out, and a tray that fills as you order.
A noodle-bowl ordering experience built around a 3D bowl you can explore ingredient by ingredient.
My own corner of the web: websites, apps and interactive 3D, with a 3D guitar and songs you can listen to.
Studio
We make experiences come to life.
3D & visualization
Architecture, interiors, products.
Interactive web
Sites you move through.
Real-time worlds
Unreal Engine and WebGL.
Some ideas are
bigger than a room.
Where the name comes from
Pacalix. Built like the beaver.
Pacalix is our nod to Palaeocastor, an ancient beaver that dug giant spirals into the ground some 25 million years ago. They are still there today. The best builders leave something that lasts. And the beaver is Canada's own.
Its aspen grows here, trunk by trunk. Stir it with your cursor, or tilt your phone.
Try it
What we can build for you.
A real build first, then eight things clients ask us for, all live. Try them.
Heating the oven…
Real client build · 3D ordering
Ovenlight, pizza by the slice.
We built a whole pizza shop in 3D: grab the pizza, turn it over, pull a slice out, build your own. This is its model, rebuilt from grains. Every sauce and topping is its own piece.
Menu
Build your own
Pricing
Plans that grow with you.
Most selected. Built for growing studios and agencies. Shown as a tree.
- Everything in Independent
- Multi-page site
- Custom 3D models and visualization
- Phone motion and touch features
Made for teams of
CA$549
Studio · Up to 25 people · Canadian dollars
We work with clients around the world.
Every project is different. Tell us what you need and we will talk it through together, then settle the price that fits your work. [email protected] · +1 403 555 0142
About
Simon Maxam
Founder of PACALIX. I build interactive 3D websites, products and games, and I play guitar on stage the same way I code: patient, then suddenly fast.
- The inspiration. PACALIX is our nod to Palaeocastor, an extinct beaver from the early days of the beaver family, some 25 to 30 million years ago, when North America was open plains.
- The builder. Palaeocastor dug deep corkscrew burrows into the ground. Fossil spirals up to about two and a half metres deep are still found today, which is why early settlers called them "devil's corkscrews". Millions of years later, what it built is still there.
- The philosophy. Make work that lasts. We chose the name, and the beaver as our symbol of Canada, to stand for patient, careful building: dig deep, build it right, leave something that stays standing.
- The name. PACALIX is short, easy to say and easy to remember, the same in every language. Ancient builder, new experiences.
- 3D
- Blender, Unreal Engine 5, Siemens NX
- Architecture
- Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, AutoCAD
- Code
- JavaScript, Three.js, React, Python, C++
- Design
- Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro
- Music
- Guitar for about seven years: classical, fingerstyle, jazz
Credentials
0certificates.
4 professional certificates, 23 specialist courses and 2 awards. Open any of them to see the real certificate.
Professional certificates · full programs, not single classes
Award · 2024
TÜBİTAK
3rd place nationwide in Türkiye, 1st in the province
Award
Waterloo Newtonian Medal
University of Waterloo, Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing
Specialist courses
Contact · from the aspen grove to your screen
What are we making?
“Hi PACALIX, I'd like to build something.”
Clients worldwide · prices in CA$ · replies within a day