What Kind of Creature?

Creating 3D Animated Creatures for fictionalized landscapes

Miami Dade County Public School Teachers
Creature illustration

About the workshop

Teachers explore how paper sketches, marker textures, and drawn designs can become living forms in augmented reality. We begin with imagined environments, design creatures through sketching and layered textures, then use phone or tablet tools to generate simple 3D forms. The result is an animated GLB that can be viewed in AR in the classroom.

What you will learn

Materials

Please bring: your phone

Suggested but not required: tablet or laptop

Provided: computer paper

Nice to bring: patterned paper, sketchbook, colored pens or pencils, stickers, small craft materials

Apps and tools

Two hour plan

  1. Welcome, goals, quick examples — fifteen minutes
  2. Character design and sketching — thirty minutes
  3. Image to 3D on devices — thirty minutes
  4. Animate and export to AR — thirty minutes
  5. Walk around showcase — fifteen minutes