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Hello! I am posting and praying that it's in the right area and for the right people! Sorry ahead of time if it's not.. I am working on innovations for a niche community of readers and would love to implement AR into the mix.

The idea: I manage a few authors and would love to have past and future covers to be AR when looking through a camera or app. (Eventually postcards of characters or scenes in the book that could be AR as well.)

The info: As I do my dive into the community and find freelancers, they tell me that I need 3D models first; that they need the animations already; or that they just can't do it. I have the still artwork and covers pdfs

The question: Where do I start? Am I doing this process wrong? Or is it impossible? I don't want the AR images to be low graphic like the N64; but I don't need things extreme as well. As an example, there is a scene where a woman is looking out a lighthouse window and it's storming, ideally when looking at the image, I'd love for the waves to be moving, lightning flashing and it raining. Another example; there is a NSFW scene in a glow worm cave; I don't need any craving moving, just the cave itself trickling with different glowing lights?