World of a Mermaid

GIF
World of a Mermaid

Inspiration

This lens was developed with the inspiration of my childhood fantasy stories. Almost each one of us had beliefs in the existence of mermaids! To give life to this belief and fantasy I created this WORLD OF A MERMAID Lens

What it does

In this world of a mermaid lens, you can experience the two variations of fantasy experience when you switch between front and back camera.

In the front camera, you will be transformed into the mermaid with the cute shell and pearl decorated eyelashes to give glorious shine to your mermaid eyes where your mermaid ears will react according to your head movement also you can control your pet called squishy the JELLYFISH (which squeezes the sparkles) by using your hands as a controller.

When you switch to back camera, you will be transformed into a Mermaid where your entire body revealed with your mermaid tail and allows you to enjoy the fantasy sea view through the eyes of a mermaid.

How we built it

With the help of full-body tracking and UV segmentation masking technique in the lens studio we built this lens.

We developed our beautiful mermaid 3d model with the baking tricks and techniques of 3d Model software like Cinema4D and Maya.

Here I leveraged Snap AR hand tracking, Physics, VFX and internal scripts from our own library for creating this deep ocean fantasy lens.

Challenges we ran into

It's quiet difficult task to create a seamless experience, while utilizing multiple render targets and camera's running at the same time. So it was bit difficult to compile this lens when it was on early stages.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Successfully developed the seamless smooth experience lens which I planned to accomplish for spotlight .

What we learned

Everything is a learning when I'm creating any lenses. So here I have learned lot more stuffs like full-body UV masking techniques which helps to get the core concept of this lens.