Bate-bola & Folia de Reis: wearable carnival costumes, masks and folk instruments

Two Brazilian street traditions in one pack, built from photos of the real thing: the bate-bola turmas of Rio’s suburbs, and the Folia de Reis that goes house to house between Christmas and Epiphany.

Wearable, not statues

The bate-bola costumes and masks are made to be worn. The costumes are hollow garments skinned to the included wooden figure’s skeleton, so they follow every animation; the masks are hollow helmets that parent to the figure’s head bone. The README shows how in Godot, three.js and Unity.

What is inside

• Bate-bola: two turma costumes (Maré and Vento: lamé tunic, balloon skirt, puffed striped sleeves, fur boas), two masks (a painted mesh face in a big fur wig), two sombrinhas that open and close in a play loop, two bexigas (a ball in a net bag on a striped stick), two turma banners.
• Folia de Reis: the bandeira (the Three Kings’ flag with silk ribbons), the palhaço’s leather mask (horns, sisal beard, wearable too), a red and a white sanfona (48-bass accordion, bellows squeeze in a play loop), viola caipira, caixa de folia (a rope-tensioned drum), carved reco-reco, the house altar with its lapinha.
• Also: a tailor’s dress form, and the wooden figure: a 1.75 m artist’s mannequin on a standard humanoid skeleton (Unity and Godot bone names, articulated fingers) with 16 clips, among them bate_bola_jump, carry_banner, walk and samba.

Every turma, folia, maker and artwork is fictional.

Made for engines

• glb (Godot 4, three.js, Blender) and FBX (Unity, Unreal) with embedded textures.
• Real scale (1 unit = 1 m). Props stand on the ground; costumes and masks are placed on the figure at rest.
• Animations as glTF clips: the figure’s 16, the sombrinha’s and the sanfona’s play loops (the sombrinha’s canopy and the sanfona’s bellows are morph targets, in the glb).
• A convex collision hull per moving part and the body, ready for Godot’s import.
• 90,936 triangles in all, 1,176 to 8,064 per asset.