Personal project
Vecna Cam
A webcam filter I made for a Stranger Things Halloween meeting, turning me into Vecna live on Zoom.
I made this for our company’s quarterly meeting, which had a Stranger Things Halloween theme and a prize for the best costume. I didn’t have a costume, so I wrote a webcam filter that turned me into Vecna, standing in the Upside Down. It’s an unofficial fan project, and none of the show’s artwork is in it.
On every frame, it:
- tracks 478 points on my face and wraps a skull skin generated from noise around them, lit by the real light in the room;
- narrows the jaw, hollows the cheeks and stretches the skull;
- turns hair into a bald, veined scalp, and the neck and clothes into root-like tendrils;
- replaces the room with a red storm sky, dead trees, drifting spores and lightning.
Number keys switch between the full effect, Vecna in the real room, the background alone and a normal camera. It runs in Python with MediaPipe and OpenCV, and reaches Zoom through OBS’s virtual camera.