Doppel - Product Design
Doppel is a Facial Recognition app that lets you create animated emoji using your phone’s camera and microphone. Record a short video and turn it into a .gif or movie then share it in messaging or social media apps.
We started development on this as soon as we heard that the iPhone X would have the sensors needed for AR capabilities, before we knew (but had correctly assumed) that Apple itself would come out with something similar called ‘Animoji’.
Try it out here
Prototyping
The stakeholders wanted a way to preview the look and feel with crisp visuals and animations. The best and quickest way to achieve this short of actually building the app was with a Prototype - Prototypes allow for quick iteration and are the best way to communicate a fully animated and usable design idea to other teams, stakeholders, and users for testing.
Flinto combined with After Effects allow for some pretty powerful high-fidelity prototyping. I made animated assets in After Effects and then imported them to Flinto to create a usable prototype. I also had some 3D art and illustrations made for the prototype by my team. After a few iterations I had something me and the team were happy with.
Marketing Material
I was also tasked with making a video used for marketing purposes. I used the beta Doppel app to lip-sync along to a song called Go! by Crash Faster and put that into After Effects to animate into a quick preview of the app.