Phone showing woman with face filter

Mecca AR Filter


Design

Collaborating with the renowned Australian makeup brand Mecca, and the talented artist Louise Zhang, we transformed Zhang's artistic creations into a pair of captivating AR filters for Mecca's holiday campaign.
Defining the challenge

Mecca enlisted us to create two filters for their holiday campaign - their brand subsets had different target audiences and so required different approaches.

Filter Gifs
Solution

We created two unique filters. The first, a world effect, integrated flowing shapes and vibrant colors into the users’ environment. The second, a face filter, accentuated the users’ natural beauty while creating a moment they were excited to share with the world.

Results
Mecca Filter Images
Pitching ideas

Storyboarding plays a crucial role in securing customer buy-in. For every filter concept, we presented a series of ideas to ensure we aligned with Mecca’s vision before commencing production.

3 different face filter ideas
Communicating movement

Communicating a sense of movement pre-production is highly valuable for ensuring stakeholders are on the same page, and developer time is not wasted.

Story board of worldspace filter
Dev perspective

Throughout the process I worked closely with our developers to ensure our pitches operated within technical capabilities. I was there to aid in any way I could, including making sprite sheets from Zhang’s original works.

Sprite Sheet
Implementation

Once we had approved designs and sprite sheets the devs dove in to implementing. We collaborated quite closely to get movement and feel correct.

Development Gif - Unity
Final Product
  • Louis Zhang face filter
  • World filter mecca store
  • Woman face filter
  • World filter NGV museum
  • Woman face filter smiling
  • Repost world filter in Zhangs art studio
  • World filter at beach
  • Woman instagram face filter
  • World filter on street