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Hi! I’m Heather. I’ve been an interactive designer/illustrator/animator/developer (flash, web, app, & mobile games) for 15 yrs. Now, I’m using those game dev lessons in AR/VR: creating immersive art experiences that blur the line between art & audience. #WhatAGameDevLooksLike pic.twitter.com/NHyXiGvSdd

— Heather Dunaway Smith 🇺🇦 (@dunaway_smith) March 24, 2022

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XR game developer Heather Dunaway Smith recently shared this seriously cool AR effect she created, where her real life face temporarily "pops" into her avatar persona. (See her video above to see what I mean.) It was created, she explains on Twitter, through a combination of Procreate, After Effects, and Spark AR. (The latter being a Facebook/Meta app, so caveat avatar.) "Yeah, you can export animations as PNG sequences (in After Effects), then bring them into SparkAR as textures, using an animation controller."

Heather even created a tutorial for creating this effect on her TikTok — watch below:

@dunawaysmith #Geometric #Noir #facefilter #artprocess #Illustration > #photoshop & #procreate#animation > #aftereffects#augmentedreality > #sparkAR#IGfilters ♬ She Share Story (for Vlog) – 山口夕依

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— Heather Dunaway Smith 🇺🇦 (@dunaway_smith) March 24, 2022

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More like this, please!