As part of karaoke startup LuckyVoice’s latest marketing campaign, we were approached to produce another facebook app. This time, the brief was to produce an app that’d allow users to build identikit characters based on the karaoke songs they like to sing.
The app itself was fairly straightforward, but the real trick was making the identikit images… with about a billion different combinations, we decided to leave the task to our XCalibre servers via awesome open-source command-line image-editor ImageMagick. To get the images, we wrote scripts to subtract the various face components and add them together on the fly, creating truly horrifying hybrids ; )