Telekom Masks

Joining forces with the liquid awesomeness that is RAD London we produced this real-time facetracking bonanza. To co-incide with the Cologne Carnival season we produced a standalone face tracking unit for installation in Telkom's flagship store. We produced six high quality masks that accurately fit to any face shape - tracking position, and more imprortantly, facial expressions resulting in a very fluid, fun experience.

We also incorporated head nodding detection, allowing the user to interact with the device using just their head to confirm actions. In this case faciliatating taking a photo of the experience.

The masks were built in good old XSI, using a plethora of custom tools to generate, manipulate and then spit out the blendshapes required for each of the masks (over 70..). Each mask had a huge number of hand painted textures, made with love and swearing in Zbrush, as well as running custom shaders to keep them as realistic as possible.