We are thankful to Zara Shapiro, Malcolm Walker, Shimenta and Reinhard for the quotes they shared with us. Reinhard Reinhard recognizes himself as an ‘artist, traveller and animallover’. He is an imaginative Lens Creator and an art teacher in Belgium. He also creates elaborate stories by drawing on top of his pictures (source). I mainly […]

Family Portrait Ugly Sweater Santa’s Beard Family Portrait Lens: What could be more on-the-nose for 2020 than a “family portrait,” of just you?! See yourself as your own set of family members through a combination of ML Lens technologies. Ugly Sweater Lens: Wish friends and family “Snappy Holidays” while you don an AR ugly sweater […]

We’ve selected 50 best Instagram AR filters created by brands to make this Christmas even brighter for their followers and their followers’ families. Watch and experience them using your Instagram mobile app, and visit Lenslist for even more Christmas AR filters! Below, you’ll find 50 curated filters by our team, but don’t bypass our tips […]

Push your own boundaries 🙌 In our creative brief, we point out three technologies/features that we consider to be super advanced and empowering for Creators (below), but what’s super important – you don’t have to use these features to take part in the Call for Content! We’re interested in what opened up your horizons and […]

More and more Christmas AR filters have been shown during the last week. Overall, we’ve curated 44 of Instagram effects, created either for a brand or just for the sake of art by creators from our great AR community. Remember to rest this weekend and relax playing with the fresh new filters presented below (and […]

Marina Santarossa | @marinarossa Marina is a freelancer Spark AR Creator and a digital marketer from Canada with 50+ community Instagram filters and also a lot of projects for brands. For me, I see two themes within my filters: everyday use and special occasions. As an avid Instagram user, I love making filters that enhance […]

We wanted to make this recap really worth your read, so even if you missed the event, now you can exactly know how it went. Table of Contents Table of Contents Day 1 Snap’s AR Ecosystem: from Creation to Discovery Building the AR Economy: Creator Opportunities with Snap What’s New in Lens Studio 3.3 Our […]

‘Cyberpunk’ is a subgenre of sci-fi which focuses on a ‘combination of low-life and high tech’ in a specific, distopian futuristic setting. So, what you’ll find in the AR filters below are a lot of implants, AI visual systems, bobbleheads, robotic arms, as well as some neony and punky fashion choices. We couldn’t start with […]

Although during the last week at the center of our attention was Snapchat with its Lens Fest and Lens Studio announcements, we couldn’t miss all of the great work AR creators did on Instagram lately. Lay down, relax and enjoy 43 Instagram filters selected by our team. Spoiler alert: a lot of Cyberpunk filters out […]

Day 1 announcements Lenses made by the Lens Creator community have been viewed by Snapchatters more than 1 trillion times. Snap will invest $3.5 million dollars to expand support of AR creators and developers. A powerful update to Lens Studio, Snap’s AR creation tool. View the blog post here. A collaboration with LACMA called Monumental […]