Blender Artist known on Reddit as R2fA9r shared a WIP look at an interesting Blender plug-in that integrates their tracking technology, which feels like something straight out of Tony Stark's lab.

The phone is tracked, and its movement controls a camera inside Blender, so R2fA9r can use a pen to draw and record those movements as digital strokes. After that, they combine the rendered strokes with the video footage in Adobe Premiere. R2fA9r's next step is to enable sculpting, with one tracker representing the geometry and the pen acting as the sculpting tool.

R2fA9r explained that they have a small "base station" that can connect to a computer, VR headset, phone, or other device. It lets you track the movement of any object you attach it to, with sub-millimeter accuracy. The pen is also still a prototype: the developer plans to build a smaller version that should be more or less similar to an Apple Pencil.

R2fA9r promised to share more updates, including sculpting, before moving on to animation paths and possibly VR. If you're interested, follow them on Reddit. Feel free to share your feedback and suggestions.

At 80 Level, we love everything at the intersection of art and technology. If you're into this too, check out Kat Zhang's hand-tracking projects, chickendream's pixel-art pond, or Ian Curtis' face-tracking setups. Also, try to guess which of kosmoiko's bowls are real and which ones aren't.

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