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Papervision parlor trick puts 3D Flash character into web video

Erick Schonfeld

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Saturday, November 29th, 2008
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http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2283082&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1
Papervision – Augmented Reality (extended) from Boffswana on Vimeo.

A digital design shop in Australia, Boffswana, shows off a neat parlor trick in the video above. It places a 3D Flash character made with Papervision into a regular Webcam video using nothing more than a paper printout. (Update: Oh, and you can print it out yourself and add the character to your own video).

Eat your heart out, George Lucas.

(Hat tip to Cory O’Brien).

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