The arrival of Hasbro’s “Selfie Collection” figures at final weekend’s Pulse Con lastly provides folks (within the U.S., no less than) the possibility to get their very own little lifelike motion determine, lifelike as long as you dream of being one among a number of high-quality Hasbro-affiliated licenses already. However how does the tech maintain up? Properly, the app no less than makes issues attention-grabbing.
Whereas what we’ve seen of Hasbro’s proposed end-results for the Selfie Collection look fairly neat, the issue proper now could be that the artistic course of that results in you ultimately spending $60 on such a undertaking leaves one thing slightly to be desired. It entails a collection of images you’re requested to take of your self, which the Hasbro app then makes use of to create a map of your face that can finally be printed onto a determine sculpt.
It’s a straightforward sufficient process, however the way in which the photographs are previewed within the app—awkwardly rendered in 3D with no matter hair and physique you decide, from Star Wars characters to Energy Rangers, from Spider-Man to Ghostbusters—leaves… one thing to be desired. As action-figure followers struggled to seize one thing that didn’t appear like it got here out of the brand new Hellraiser, the staffers at io9 (no less than, these of us within the U.S., harumph) took a glimpse contained in the digital mirror to see how they could prove… and you’ll see the ends in the following few slides, together with their ideas.
Keep tuned to io9 for extra on Hasbro’s Selfie Collection, as figures start rolling out to prospects within the coming months.
