We made horrific potty-mouthed turkeys come alive in augmented reality

Client: Modern Toss

Skill set: Web AR / Web App

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Modern Toss got in touch with an idea for a Christmas experience in their new fanzine Knowtes.
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Our brief from Jon

- 'I've been making some roast turkey portraits of rich and famous people, and was wondering about making one of them sing a carol?

For the animated thing that is triggered in the fanzine? They're obviously 2D, but could that be a goer.

Maybe if it appeared projected on a flat plane? The other idea is using the seasonal bullock stick rotating with music and snow.'
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We love Modern Toss work so loved turning the idea into (augmented) reality.

For the final production we created 2 singing turkeys by projection mapping the original faces onto 3D meshes and then sculpting them further to look like the fully formed horrific franken-turkey hybrids envisaged.

We rigged the turkeys to be able to lip sync and read through their festive audio voice overs.

The project was delivered as a Web AR experience with a branded camera functionality for easy social sharing.
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