Learn how all this works in the video above. I took this photo to show you my demented butterfly. And overall, thanks to these tools, making AR art is a lot easier and more fun than I thought. My town carnival butterfly ended up looking a little demented. Don't worry, you don't have to be all that much of an artist. Two-for-one: With Spark AR, you can make a face filter for Instagram and material for your next nightmare simultaneously.įor this beginner tutorial though, I went with some original art created in Procreate. With a live preview of your face and just a few clicks you can try on steampunk goggles or hang out next to a piranha plant from Super Mario. Spark AR partnered with 3D modeling platform Sketchfab to offer a ton of free AR assets. You can do all sorts of things with Spark AR, the vast majority of which I haven't yet tried.

Facebook makes a free desktop app called Spark AR Studio. Now, you don't actually need an iPad Pro or Procreate to do this. So I made a video about it, which you can watch above. However, it wasn't until I got my hands on the new iPad Pro and played around with the Face Paint feature in Procreate that I realized how easy it is to make your own face filter. We've already spent years contorting our faces, surrounding them with butterflies or pinning stuff to our heads to find out which Disney villain best represents us. Face filters on Instagram and Snapchat are far and away the most mainstream use of what we call augmented reality.

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