augmented mural

animation for ar

This is a portion of the Arne Nixon Community Mural, which was designed by Rafael López and painted in May 2019. My class teamed up to each animate a segment of the mural with AR.

The person in my slice of the mural is holding a book, so it seemed natural to show them reading it. To do this, I first flattened the perspective of the image in Photoshop, then traced a vector copy over it in Illustrator. This made it easier to separate each visual element and animate them individually in AfterEffects. Finally, I used ZappAR to pair the QR code with the segment of the mural that I wanted to animate. The software uses image recognition to project my animated video over the mural, bringing it to life.