LENTICULAR AR Business Cards

I wanted to combine a lot of the new technologies into an easy to view experience -- and enhance the LENTICULAR Business Cards with 3D AUGMENTED REALITY:

I got the lenticular sheets on the 23rd of August,

and cut them down quickly to almost business card size

Below is the mock up I made before of what the lenticular card should look like:

July 7, 2025

Midjourney

EzGIF

The Lenticular image 

should look like this animated GIF

I put an NFC sticker on the back the Lenticular Business Card that conjure up an ALIEN JAVELINA in 3D Augmented Reality, when people hoover their smart phone over the NFC sticker:

ALIEN JAVELINA in AUGMENTED REALITY

Daniel hanging out with the AR Alien Javelina

 at Tin Can Alley on Saturday, July 26th

Perhaps I also need to add a QR to the back of the business card, for those who cannot get NFC:

Also leads to the ALIEN JAVELINA

3D AUGMENTED REALITY

We had made lenticular business cards during the TUCSON SCULPTURE FESTIVAL 2013, for Mat Bevel's kinetic butterfly sculpture:

It's Happening -- more media

• ACTION PICTURES will make individual lenticular cards for a good price
• PrintShaq will make lenticular business cards for $225, up to four images

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PROCESS

First I generated an AI Javelina, and animated it below in Midjourney:

July 7, 2025

Midjourney

EzGIF

SPLIT

Then I used EzGIF to split the animated GIF into individual frames, and selected two frames that would make an interesting LENTICULAR business card:

First Image

Second Image

EXPAND

I then had to expand the two chosen images into a business card size -- 2 inches high by 3.5 inches wide.  I then used Midjourney to "Zoom Out,"  expanding the image on all sides. I cropped that resulting image online using Red Ketchup to "1024 x 585 pixels" (business card aspect ratio): 

Midjourney

Red Ketchup

 1024 x 585 pixels

Business Card size

Then in the GIMP I pasted the second image over the above one, to make a second "business card sized" image.  The goal was to make the javelina look like it was running when tilting the lenticular image:

Midjourney

Red Ketchup

GIMP

WALGREENS

Then I pasted the larger images into two different 5x5 inch (300 DPI) JPEGs to upload to the Walgreens Lenticular Photo Print website.  The idea is to cut the Lenticular Photo into two Lenticular Business Cards:

5x5 inches, first image

5x5 inches, second image

Apparently it takes 10 to 14 days to process.  Adric actually is ordering this for me.  When they come in I will have to cut the business cards out of the 5x5 inch lenticular photos.

NFC

AUGMENTED REALITY

I want to add an AUGMENTED REALITY Javelina to the lenticular business cards using NFC stickers.  First I have to generate a 3D Javelina.

I converted the same AI Javelina into a 3D file using tencent/Hunyuan3D-2.1 -- and then created an Augmented Reality experience from that. Unfortunately the Augmented Reality file is 7.5 MB, because the texture files are huge.

July 7, 2025

Midjourney

tencent/Hunyuan3D-2.1

DRACO to GLB

<model-viewer>

EzGIF

View in AUGMENTED REALITY

Instead I am going to link to the Augmented Reality ALIEN JAVELINA, as that is about 3 MBs, and will be a lot easier and quicker to download.

WebAR

View ALIEN JAVELINA

in AUGMENTED REALITY

NOT JUST ROSWELL

Dunkin Donuts in 2024

in Roswell, New Mexico

With the business card it will be easy to conjure up an ALIEN in different places, not just Roswell.  Perhaps people could send me screen shots of the ALIEN JAVELINA from different shops, states, countries...and I could use Midjourney AI to animate those ALIEN JAVELINAS, like I did in the YouTube video below:

Psychedelic Animal Coffee

Psychedelic Animal Coffee

• This would be like the World Traveling Gnome from the movie Amelia
• Maybe someone has already scooped me with this idea