If you need to animate anything inside Lens Studio — position, rotation, scale, opacity, etc. — the Tween script is your best friend. Now don’t be intimidated by the word “script” — you don’t need to write any code to use the tween script. All you need to do is…

Call me a pseudofuturist Three out of my six predictions came true for what we could expect next from Lens Studio. All six predictions coming true would have made me a futurist, so 50% makes me a pseudofuturist. Or are all futurists pseudofuturists? Best of Snap lenses If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the winners…

Lens Fest Lens Fest is tomorrow, so if you are into Snapchat lenses make sure you are registered (it’s free). If my predictions come true I think I’ll have to call myself a futurist. SparkSL (kinda) demystified SparkSL is Spark AR’s version of GLSL for writing shaders. Half of you probably stopped reading after that…

SparkSL is a super powerful feature of Spark AR — with it you can create your own shaders with code. However, there are some key differences between SparkSL and GLSL which can make converting existing shaders tricky. This tutorial will go over the process of converting a shader from…

In this tutorial we’ll go over how to control an object’s rotation using facial expressions. We’ll use the face expressions API to get an expression weight (e.g. how open someone’s mouth is) and then drive the rotation of a separate object (e.g. the rotation of a jaw bone). Scene setup I…

My Snap AR predictions Lens Fest is just around the corner so I want to share my predictions for what’s next for Lens Studio. In case any of my predictions come true, I do want to clarify that I do not have any insider knowledge as to what Snap is currently developing. These are…

The coolest use of SnapML SnapML lets anyone enhance their Snapchat lenses with machine learning. For most people this means things like style transfer or object detection, but GoSpooky managed to get 3D object tracking working. Check out their LEGO car demo. This is hands down the coolest use of SnapML I’ve seen. Now this…

Be cheap labor for Cyberpunk 2077 Facebook ran a “Get Superpowered” competition a few months ago. It was pretty fun and I won a small prize from it. I was excited to see that they are running a new competition, but then I read the rules. Facebook’s new “Cyberpunk” augmented reality filter competition is giving away…

Cool person to follow If you aren’t familiar with Hart’s Snapchat lenses, you should be. He doesn’t upload a ton of personal lenses, but what he does post is usually mindblowing. Go check out his work and give him a follow on Twitter. Spark AR In the last newsletter I called out Spark AR for appearing…