Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire AR Experience
About The Project
The Ghostbusters Frozen Empire experiences were 2 lenses (Slimer Time and Slimer Call). Both allow users to transform themselves into Slimer from the movie.
Date
April 2024
Role
Texture optimization for real-time implementation, rigging, and asset integration in platform.
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Photo Courtesy – Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.
The
Experiences
The Ghostbusters Frozen Empire experiences were 2 lenses (Slimer Time and Slimer Call). Both allow users to transform themselves into Slimer from the movie. Gained over 28 million views overall.
Slimer Time Lens
Slimer Call Lens
The process included rigging the low poly production model and adapting and optimizing textures to create the Slimer character to be used for body tracking in an AR lens.
Testing Rig in Lens Studio
Optimization involved:
- reducing 30 UDIMs to 1 tile,
- reducing 750 texture maps to 3,
- reducing 30 materials to 1,
- rigged character without legs