I've been tossing around the idea of making Lens Studio tutorials, and I'm happy to say I finally did! You can find them here at AR Bootcamp! The goal is to create the best resource for learning Lens Studio and Spark AR. Background Why make tutorials…

A few people have asked what books I recommend for people interested in entomology, so I thought I'd put together a list. Now I'm not a professional entomologist myself, but it is a pretty serious hobby of mine and I think this is a good list for…

Yesterday Snap announced a new version of Lens Studio, version 3.0 (Lens Studio is the software that people like me use to make filters for Snapchat). Maybe the most exciting new feature is the addition of machine learning capabilities. One of the…

Toyota ran some Prius commercials a few years ago about some bank robbers using a Prius to evade the police. I was not motivated at all to buy a Prius. Maybe I wasn't their target market? But I do like to think of myself as creative, and sometimes I…

No one's ever asked what software/resources I use when creating my filters and lenses, but I'm going to tell you anyway. Ready? Let's get started. Final AR Effect For actually creating the effect, I use Lens Studio for Snapchat and Spark AR for…

This is a quick tutorial on how to export face in video tracking data from Blender for use in Lens Studio. This is not a tutorial on how to use Blender, Python, or Lens Studio. That being said, the script is set up to provide a mostly painless…

The milkshake lens was made on a whim late one night. Thanks to this commercial, the song "Milkshake" by Kelis was (and probably still is to this day) stuck in my head. I first did a search for milkshake lenses to make sure I wasn't copying someone…

The dancing hot dog. It was before my time as a Snapchat user, but its popularity was such that I had seen it before. One day I was browsing the r/SnapLenses subereddit when I came across this post asking for a poorly drawn, poorly animated dancing…

I finished my website redesign! Originally I was focusing on making 3D models for Facebook posts, but then Facebook decided to discontinue 3D models in posts. So now I'm focusing on Snapchat lenses! I am planning on providing brief breakdowns of each…