A cardboard Christmas cracker diaorama to warm your soul

Client: RamJam

Skill set: Character Design / Animation / Web AR

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Each Christmas we try and make a digital gift to send out to our loyal handful of social media followers.

We'd been experimenting with webGL and webAR animated models so decided to make a little pop up theatre diaroma.
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Starring our very Orson the panther, Merv the beaver and with a small cameo from Hal in the background, we tried to embue the animation with a satsfying hand-made cardboard feel along with clockwork mechanical figures.
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The animation itself is also viewable as a webGL scene (well it is if we can find and upload the files) but was a little too much to run nicely in webAR which is still in it's infancy.
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