IF - Imaginary Friends AR Experiences
About The Project
The IF AR experiences allow users to puppet, pose, and design with Blue and Blossom from the movie.
Date
April 2024
Role
Model and texture optimization for real-time implementation, rigging, and blend shapes for facial expressions
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Photo Courtesy – Paramount Pictures
The
Experiences
The IF AR experiences allow users to puppet, pose, and design with Blue and Blossom from the movie. Gained over 1 million views overall.
Dance with Blue & Blossom
Baskin Robbins with Blue
Recolor Blue & Blossom with Crayola
Blue Rig Test in Lens Studio
The process included adapting and optimizing movie production models and textures and rigging two characters to be used for AR lenses.
Blossom Rig Test in Lens Studio
Optimization involved:
Blossom
- a 98% reduction in model tri count,
- reducing 55 UDIMs to 2 tiles,
- 2 materials
- created blend shapes for facial expressions
- simple rig for body tracking
Blue
- an 81% reduction in model tri count,
- reducing 12 UDIMs to 4 tiles,
- 4 materials (to allow hair cards with fidelity and transparency)
- created blend shapes for facial expressions
- simple rig for body tracking