Working From an Iconic Source
Jimmy C's skull has a specific visual character: the spray-paint medium, the scale at which it reads, the particular quality of the surface. The AR model was built and textured to carry that character into three dimensions rather than producing a generic 3D skull. Surface imperfections, the quality of the paint layer, the visual weight of the original, all of these were referenced in the 3D build. The animation was designed to feel like a natural extension of the painting's energy rather than a demonstration of AR technology: the skull moves with a slowness that respects the gravity of the subject. The Muse Frame display hardware was specified to support the piece at gallery exhibition quality.
