Mug Life
Create stunning 3D characters from any photo
Mug Life
Create stunning 3D characters from any photo
Mug Life is an iOS app that instantly creates photo-real 3D animations of friends, family, and celebrities. Anyone can animate. All it takes is a photo. Riff off of community content, create living memes and share your creations as videos, GIFs, and animated avatars.
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I really like the general concept. Making your photos come to life (and those of friends!) is a lot of fun and the underlying technology works quite well. I also like that I can save the result to my camera roll so I can share it wherever I want.
My biggest complaint is the user experience. I feel like it's unnecessarily complex. All I want to do is choose a picture and animate it. Manually or with the emoji presets. The on-boarding process with all the tooltips and explainer videos is quite cumbersome. In my opinion a good interface doesn't need explaining. I think leveraging iOS' native design language rather than inventing your own style would make things more intuitive.
Down the road I can envision integrations with other social media where I could have an animated avatar similar to Bitmoji in Snapchat. Rather than a π smiley you'd actually see my avatar animate to match that emotion.
Looking forward seeing it develop. Congrats on the progress so far π
I had some problems with the UX, a lot of thing happening at the same time, in one point i got frustrated because to get what i wanted took me a lot of time and instructions, I think that this can be simplified and get right into the point.
There are a lot of small buttons and thing that makes me get lost on the process.
But congratulations!! This is amazing, I already love the product.
I think it's worth considering starting out simple, and exposing the additional options gradually over time. The sooner you can get people to play around with their photo, the better.