Exclusive: Smurfette Jumps Off the Page in Augmented Reality FCBD Comic - ICv2

Papercutz is bringing thing caller to Free Comic Book Day 2023: Their Smurfs FCBD comic includes an augmented world (AR) diagnostic that brings the characters disconnected the leafage and into virtual reality. When the screen is viewed with a astute phone, Smurfette volition look to popular disconnected the leafage into 3 dimensions.

The FCBD contented which marks the 65th day of the franchise, volition see 3 archetypal stories by Smurfs creator Peyo, nary of which person been published successful English before: “A Kiss for Smurfette,” “The Smurf from Outer Space,” and “Smurfs and the Robot X-XIII.” The AR diagnostic volition bring the characters into the reader’s abstraction for a caller and dynamic experience.

While this is the archetypal FCBD comic to usage AR, the exertion has been utilized successful the past by Anomaly Productions for its Anomaly graphic novels and the kids’ comic Creative Creature Catcher (see “Anomaly Takes the Next Steps with Augmented Reality Comics”).

The Smurfs volition crook 65 years aged successful 2023; Papercutz, which was acquired by Mad Cave Studios earlier this twelvemonth (see “Mad Cave Studios Acquires Papercutz”), has held the Smurfs licence since 2010 (see “‘Smurfs’ Graphic Novels Return”).

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