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When I’m not designing prototypes, I experiment with product/interaction design in other mediums… Check out my latest 3D character card series: developed in AR!

Concept Sketches

AR development already in mind, I wanted to design a series of characters that teens/young adults would love. With the rise of blind boxes, figures, and cute characters (labubus…) I ended up landing on a series of fashionable girl characters, all based on different eras of time. I went with the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s, as I felt they all held relevant nostalgia to modern audiences (and would be visually fun and engaging!)

70’s Character Color Concepts

90’s Character Color Concepts

80’s Character Color Concepts

Final Color Concepts

3D Models

The next phase involved modeling each character in Blender. Through 3D modeling each character, I was able to discover which features were easily transferable from a 2D to a 3D space. This process resulted in slight alterations to the designs, but they remained true to their original concepts.

70’s Character Model

Character Illustrations

After discovering what 2D features could be translated into 3D, I illustrated the final character designs. Intentionally evoking the target audience’s nostalgia, the final character silhouettes and shape language mimics popular cartoon styles from the 90s and 2000s!

Card Construction

I took off to the physical space (scary…) and began printing and hand-cutting around 50 cards of each character, around the size of a Pokémon trading card! On top of this, I created some fun side products… like keychains and standees :D