An event lasts a few hours. The memory it leaves behind can spread for weeks. How to create a premium system that turns a physical presence into a memorable, shareable experience?

The web agency Bonhomme in Paris dreamed up Jean-Pierre — an unusual interactive installation built on a simple, powerful idea: blending the visitor’s emotions with those of a 3D marble statue, in real time.

Bonhomme in Paris designed and developed Jean-Pierre — a premium real-time 3D marble sculpture built in WebGL. The principle is as surprising as it is engaging: through facial motion recognition, Jean-Pierre mirrors visitors’ expressions and blends their emotions with his own. Joy, surprise, curiosity — the statue reacts, watches, smiles.

This UX/UI and technical direction work creates a unique moment of complicity between the visitor and the piece — a playful, unexpected interaction that lasts only a few seconds but leaves a memorable, shareable imprint on social media, carrying Bonhomme’s creative signature.

The project makes it possible to:

- design a premium interactive installation built in WebGL that captures visitors’ emotions in real time;
- create a strong, memorable emotional bond between each visitor and the event through a playful, surprising UX/UI;
- turn a few-second physical experience into shareable social media content;
- demonstrate Bonhomme’s creative and technical ability to bring together art, installation and technology in a single system;
- generate organic virality around the event through a concept that’s unusual yet immediately understandable.

By bringing together web agency expertise, installation, WebGL, UX/UI and art direction, Bonhomme in Paris demonstrates that technology can serve emotion — a playful experience that creates a genuine bond between visitors and the event, well beyond the system itself.

We met one boozy evening, and he somehow kept me on my feet! He watched me, intrigued, sometimes smiling, sometimes a little unnerving — but with his passing resemblance to Silver Surfer, he won me over instantly.