1. A method comprising: presenting, using a computer display, a virtual object in a virtual scene, the virtual object representing a model of a tangible work for a user to physically create in an activity scene; capturing, using a video capture device, a video stream that includes the activity scene of a physical activity surface and the tangible work being created by the user in the activity scene with one or more extremities of the user based on the presented virtual object; processing, using one or more computing devices, the activity scene of the physical activity surface in the video stream for motion for a predetermined period of time; detecting, using the one or more computing devices, motion in the activity scene based on the processing; responsive to detecting the motion, processing, using the one or more computing devices, the video stream to detect a change in the tangible work being created by the user in the activity scene; generating a virtual representation of the tangible work, the virtual representation of the tangible work being positioned in the virtual scene based on a detected location of the tangible work in the activity scene; calculating differences between contours of the virtual representation of the tangible work with contours of the virtual object; and presenting in the virtual scene, virtual information based on the calculated differences, the virtual information including a work creation progression and an overlay of the virtual representation of the tangible work with the virtual object.