The Kickoff Session + Intro to Snap AR led by a Snap team member. You will have the opportunity to learn about Snap Inc. company history, hear the evolution and future of augmented reality and be provided with an overview of the Snap AR Lens Challenge.
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The Lens Lab is a virtual workshop taught by an expert Snap Lens Creator. You will have the opportunity to walk through a live demonstration of Lens Studio and ask questions from the tutorials you completed
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The Lens Challenge Briefing event is a virtual workshop facilitated by an expert Snap Lens Creator. This will be an opportunity to ask questions about the briefing, learn about templates that might help your design process and understand how Snap creators make lens creation a full-time career!
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Join us for informal office hours to ask questions, request live demos of specific templates or learn from your peers.
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Join us for informal office hours to ask questions, request live demos of specific templates or learn from your peers.
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Sign up > here < to be notified about the next Snap AR Lens Challenge.
I'm currently the Senior AR designer at LadBible, making commercial and editorial AR work for large brands. I'm based in Sunderland, in the North East of the UK. I was previously a Menswear designer and Product Development Manager who decided to retrain to work in AR about 5 years ago. I'm excited by AR because of its potential for art, music and culture!
Shahwali Shayan is a London based creative technologist, AR creator and multidisciplinary artist. His practice is at the intersection of art, technology and critical storytelling. He explores the use of augmented reality as a subversive tool and as an artistic medium for creative expression.Through, Shahnanigans, his creative studio, he has built augmented reality campaigns that have accumulated more than 35 Billion views for brands like Samsung, Disney, Netflix, Adobe, Hugo Boss, Sony Music, and others. Shahwali's background in academic research, AR/XR, digital strategy, & creative direction informs his work. Additionally, he now also shares his expertise as an AR educator and lecturer at the Royal College of Art with the next generation of artists and technologists.
In order to ensure the best experience, please check as many of the following requirements as you can before joining the Lens Lab:
Do you have the following technology resources?
☐Computer
☐Internet access
☐Smartphone (with Snapchat downloaded)
Have you downloaded and tested the latest versions of the following software on your computer?
☐Design software (Adobe Illustrator, Figma, Canva, Inkscape, or another similar program)
☐Zoom
Do you have a familiarity with the following?
☐Using Lens / filters on Snapchat
☐Designing / editing visual assets using software
☐Learning new software using online tutorials / videos
Have you completed the following actions through the AR Lens Studio tutorials?
☐Looked through the Official Lens Creators page
☐Brainstormed Lens ideas
☐Previewed your Lens on Lens Studio
☐Tested your Lens on a real life user
☐Uploaded PNG screenshots of Lenses you made on the Padlets
☐Asked or answered a question on a Padlet
Have you used the templates from the tutorials to make your own Lens?
☐2D Objects
☐Face in Picture
☐Segmentation
☐Face Paint
☐Distort
Are you ready to do the following?
☐Learn more about Lens Studio & making Lenses
☐Ask questions to an expert
☐Show a draft of your final Lens to an expert for feedback
☐Take your Lens creation to the next level (e.g. interactions, 3D, etc.)